Five years after her sensational performance at The Shoe Factory, the impressive Agata Zubel is back for another yet thrilling recital, as part of the Pharos Arts Foundation’s Concert & Recital Series.
Zubel, celebrated both as a composer and a vocalist, is renowned for her unique vocal range and for her fearless technique that defies stereotypes.
Zubel appears throughout the world, having premiered numerous new works, and having collaborated with some of the world’s leading ensembles and orchestras – Klangforum Wien, Ensemble InterContemporain, London Sinfonietta, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatsoper Hannover, Warsaw Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, SWR Radio, amongst many others.
She has appeared in prestigious venues and festivals, such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Philharmonie in Berlin, BBC Proms, Festival d’Automne à Paris and Beethoven Festival in Bonn, while she has won numerous awards, including the coveted SWR Symphonieorchester Prize (2022), the European Composer Award (2018), the Grand Prix of the 60th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (2013).
For her recital at The Shoe Factory in Nicosia, on Thursday 28 March 2024 / 8:30pm, Agata Zubel will join forces with the wonderful young Korean pianist Chae-Um Kim, winner at the 14th International Piano Competition of Orléans in France, to deliver a brilliant programme of songs by Korngold, Debussy, R. Strauss, de Falla, and Kaija Saariaho. The recital is kindly supported by the Embassy of Poland in Cyprus.
PROGRAMME:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Drei Lieder, Op.22 (1929)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Reflets dans l’eau for solo piano, from Images I (1905)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
4 Lieder, Op.27 (1894)
Interval
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023)
Leino Songs (2007)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Poissons d’or for solo piano, from Images II (1907)
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Siete canciones populares españolas (1915)
AGATA ZUBEL soprano
Composer and vocalist Agata Zubel is renowned for her unique vocal range and for her fearless technique that defy stereotypes. Zubel appears throughout the world, having premiered numerous new works, and having collaborated with some of the world’s leading ensembles and orchestras – Klangforum Wien, Ensemble InterContemporain, musikFabrik, London Sinfonietta, Ictus, Seattle Chamber Players, Münchener Kammerorchester, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatsoper Hannover, Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Los Angeles Philharmonic, SWR Radio, Deutschlandfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, amongst many others.
As a singer and composer, Agata Zubel has appeared in numerous prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein Wien, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Philharmonie in Berlin, Philharmonie in Moscow, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall in London, Seattle Symphony, Chicago Symphony, L’Opéra de Reims, Warsaw Philharmonic and the Grand Theatre in the National Opera of Warsaw. She was also participated in renowned festivals, such as BBC Proms, Wien Modern, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Warsaw Autumn, Darmstadt Summer Course, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Festival de Wallonie in Mons, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Ultraschall Festival in Berlin, Wratislavia Cantans Festival.
Her extensive discography includes albums dedicated to her own music as well as her vocal interpretations of songs by Copland, Berg and Szymański (Poems), song cycles by Witold Lutosławski and André Tchaikowsky (Dream Lake), and recently the “Fryderyk” Award-winning Apparition with songs of Ravel, Barber, Szymanowski, Crumb and Obradors.
Winner of several competitions, both as a singer and a composer, Agata Zubel also boasts such important accolades as the SWR Symphonieorchester Composition Prize (2022), the European Composer Award (2018), the Austrian Erste Bank Kompositionspreis (2018), the Grand Prix of the 60th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (2013), among others. She has received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Kultur Kontakt Austria. She is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union, and she is currently a lecturer on the faculty of the Academy of Music in Wroclaw.
CHAE-UM KIM piano
Pianist and opera coach, Chae-Um Kim is originally from South Korea and now she is a resident of Paris. In 2020, she won Third Prize at the 14th International Piano Competition of Orléans (France) where she performed Agata Zubel’s Chamber Concerto, accompanied by the Ensemble InterContemporain.
Chae-Um Kim studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, in the school of the great composer Wolfgang Rihm. She continued her studies for three years at the Imola International Academy Foundation ‘Incontri con il Maestro’ in Italy, under Enrico Pace and Boris Petrushansky, and subsequently at the Conservatoire de Paris, under Claire-Marie Le Guay and Michel Dalberto.
Whether at the Messiaen Festival in Pays de la Meije, the Traiettorie Festival in Parma, the Saint-Paul-de-Vence Festival, the Musicales de Quiberon, as a soloist or in chamber music, under the baton of Bruno Mantovani or Matthias Pintscher, Chae-Um Kim is recognised for the clarity, finesse and depth of her performances in a wide-ranging repertoire, from classical to the 21st century.
Currently, Chae-Um Kim is completing her PhD studies at the Conservatoire de Paris and Sorbonne University. She also conducts masterclasses on chamber music and accompaniment and regularly performs concerts across Europe.
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