Kati Agócs
Canadian-American composer (born 1975) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian-American composer (born 1975) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kati Ilona Agócs (born January 20, 1975) is a Canadian-American composer and a member of the composition faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Kati Ilona Agócs | |
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 Agócs in December 2015 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | January 20, 1975 |
| Origin | Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Contemporary classical |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Website | www |
Agócs attended the Juilliard School in New York where she earned a Master's and Doctoral degrees under the guidance of Milton Babbitt.[1] She was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she held the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship in 2007.[2]
From 2005 to 2006, she lived in Budapest and wrote on the new-music scene in Hungary for the journal The Musical Times.[3] She had previously organized an exchange program between the Juilliard School and the Liszt Academy.[4] The Hungarian-language weekly, Bécsi Napló (Vienna Journal) acknowledged her contribution to the visibility of Hungarian composers abroad.[5] She served as Composer in Residence for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2010.[6]
Agócs was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.[7][8] In 2014 the American Academy of Arts and Letters named her as recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Music.[9] She maintains a work studio in Flatrock, Newfoundland, Canada.
Agócs is married to the American composer Robert Beaser.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project recorded and released the 2016 album The Debrecen Passion,[10] named one of the top 10 Classical albums of 2016 by the Boston Globe.[11] The title track of this album was nominated in 2017 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for a Juno Award, "Classical Composition of the Year.[12][13]
Agócs has written on American music for the journal Tempo[14] and also created a critical edition of the Symphony in A Major by Leopold Damrosch.[15]
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