Magda Drozd, born in Warsaw in 1987, has lived in Zurich since 2011 and works as a composer, musician and artist. She has published three releases on the label Präsens Editionen: “Songs for Plants” (2019), “18 Floors” (2021), “Viscera” (2023). Further releases followed on Hallow Ground for their compilation “Epiphanies”. Since 2024, Magda has been active alongside her solo work with the duo Sopraterra, which will release its debut album on Präsens Editions in 2025. In October 2024, she also founded the record label Rivercore, a platform for experimental, ambient, soundscape & beyond.
She also performs with author Katja Brunner as the duo Paula Rot in interdisciplinary contexts and is working on a new project with South African musician Tshepang Ramoba.

Magazines such as The Wire, Spex, self-titled Magazine, Fact Mag and Boomkat have reviewed her albums. Drozd has played live solo concerts in Zürich: Stadtsommer Zürich, Rhizom Festival, Les Digitales Zürich, Schönegg Variete, Helsinki Zürich, Materialschau Haus Konstruktiv, Bar 3000, GDS.FM, Grüntöne Festival Schauspielhaus, Walcheturm Zürich; in other cities in Switzerland: Cave 12 Genf, Aether Dampfzentrale Bern, Kaserne Basel, Echolot Festival Luzern, Association du Salopard Lausanne, Belluard Fribourg, Industrie Luzern, Spazio Lampo Chiasso, La Straordinaria Lugano, Südpol Luzern, Kaffee Kind Luzern, Bongo Joe Genf. International shows: Simultan Festival Timisoara, Oto Nove Swiss Festival Paris/Les Instants Chavirés, Imbarchino Torino, Tobira Records Hojo Japan, Longslowdistance Kyoto Japan, Space Between Nürnberg, Naxos Frankfurt, Breezeblock Johannesburg, Mona München.

Drozd's sound installations have been shown at the OTO Sound Museum, Museomontagna Turin, Shedhalle Zurich, and Helmhaus Zurich, among others. She also regularly works as a composer and musician for radio, theater, and video productions, most recently at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Luzerner Theater, LAC Lugano, Berliner Ensemble, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Drozd is also active in the association Initiative Freie Musikszene Zürich and initiated the residency program Studio Z4 in 2023, which she co-curates. 

 
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Releases
Upcoming 2025:
Sunglasses Cast no Shadows, solo LP, Präsens Editionen
Tshepang Ramoba & Magda Drozd: Urban Motho, LP
Track on a compilation for the London-based label Flaming Pines curated by Salomé Voegelin

2025, Sopraterra: Seven Dances to Embrace the Hollow, Präsens Editionen & La Becque Editions
2024, In Memoriam (Single), Rivercore Records, digital 2023, Viscera (EP), Präsens Editionen, digital
2022, Compilation: Ephiphanies, Hallow Ground, vinyl / digital
2021, 18 Floors (LP), Präsens Editionen, vinyl / digital
2020, Compilation: Make Some Room: Electronic Relief in Switzerland, digital
2019, Songs for Plants (LP), Präsens Editionen, vinyl / digital 

Exhibitions / Performances / Projects
2023, Chronicles of Loss, duo exhibition, Museo Montagna Torino, curated by Andrea Lerda
2022, Herbal Audition, Sound performance with Salomé Voegelin, Sonic Topologies Festival Zürich
2022, Shivering, Sound performance and installation for Connecting Worlds Festival, Cuneo (Italy) & Tende (France)
2022, Calma Apparente sound performance, Oto Sound Museum, Wasserturm Zürich
2021, Talk with urban landscapes, group exhibition, Rindermarkt Zürich, curated by Léa Jullien
2021, Oto Sound Museum, digital solo exhibition, curated by zairaoram collective
2019, Hallo Hannah, group show, Shedhalle Zürich, curated by Mirjam Bayerdörfer & Franz Krähenbühl 2018, One is to few and two is only one possibility, exhibition with Milva Stutz, Lokal 14 Zürich
2018, Keine Zeit - Kunst aus Zürich, group exhibition, Helmhaus Zürich, curated by Daniel Morgenthaler 2017, Entführungen – Kunst, Wissenschaft und die DNA des Steinbocks, group exhibition, Zoological Museum and Nationalpark Zernez (CH), curated by Irene Hedigerv
2017, A Void in Voices, video screening, Koloritklangfestival Basel, Mikro Art Space Zürich, Tokyo University of Arts  

Concerts (selection)
2017 - 2025
Zürich: Stadtsommer Zürich, Rhizom Festival, Les Digitales Zürich, Schönegg Variete, Helsinki Zürich, Materialschau Haus Konstruktiv, Bar 3000, GDS.FM, Grüntöne Festival Schauspielhaus, Walcheturm Zürich

other cities Switzerland: Cave 12 Genf, Aether Dampfzentrale Bern, Kaserne Basel, Echolot Festival Luzern, Association du Salopard Lausanne, Belluard Fribourg, Industrie Luzern, Spazio Lampo Chiasso, La Straordinaria Lugano, Südpol Luzern, Kaffee Kind Luzern, Bongo Joe Genf

International: Simultan Festival Timisoara, Oto Nove Swiss Festival Paris/Les Instants Chavirés, Imbarchino Torino, Tobira Records Hojo Japan, Longslowdistance Kyoto Japan, Space Between Nürnberg, Naxos Frankfurt, Breezeblock Johannesburg, Mona München   

Sopraterra Concerts (selection) Currents Festival Zürich, Amboss & Steinbügel St. Gallen, Walcheturm Zürich, La Becque La Tour-de-Peilz, Otooto Tokyo, Give me little more Matsumoto Japan, ShinAiKan Teshima Japan, Aoihisuji Takamatsu JP, Chiesa di Pazzo Lupi Johannesburg

Compositions for video, art, radio (commissions)
2025, Small Void, game by Alice Bucknell, Copenhagen Contemporary
2023, murmur, perfromance exhibition by Ernestyna Orlowska, Studio Galeria Warszawa
2022, Die Entspannung, video by Veronika Spierenburg, Kunsthaus Zürich
2022, Das Brechen der Brote, radio play by Stefanie Ramb, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
2021, Over Time, Exhibition by Laura Pugno, MUSE – Science Museum, Trento (IT)
2021, Tracks, Exhibition by Laura Pugno, Fondazione Zegna, Biella (IT)
2021, Like Human, performance by Maja Renn, Schauspielhaus Zürich
2021, Fragmented Delicacies, video by Eljo J Carranza, various film festivals
2020, Side Walk Duel, video by Nicola Genovese, Helmhaus Zürich  

Composition for theater (commissions)
2025, Loriot: Früher war mehr Lametta, Luzerner Theater, directed by Tom Kühnel
2025, Surviving you always, LAC Lugano, Südpol Luzern, directed by Simon Waldvogel
2024, Sterben Kämpfen Lieben, Berliner Ensemble, directed by Yana Ross
2023, Der Brief an Dich, Südpol Luzern, choreography I-Fen Lin
2023, Liebes Arschloch, Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by Yana Ross
2021, Jeder Tag ein Vollmond by Katja Brunner, Schauspielhaus Bochum
2021, Keep in Touch, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Maja Renn
2017/18, Divas, Tanzhaus Zürich, message salon embasy Zürich

Workshops
2021, 1 day sound workshop for kids at Schauspielhaus Zürich
2021, 5 days sound workshop for kids at Südpol Luzern with Cie Corsin Gaudenz

Teaching
2021, ZHdK, Performing Arts Department, Training, Volumen des Hörens 2
2020, ZHdK, Performing Arts Department, Training, Volumen des Hörens 1
2020/21, ZHdK, Performing Arts Department, mentoring of students


Curatorial Projects
2024 - 2025, co-curation of the sound residency programm Studio Z4 at Initiative Freie Musikszene Zürich
2018 - 2022, Head of theater and performance, Curator for performing arts at Südpol Luzern
2013 - 2015 part of the artist and curator collective Friction