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Biography
Born: 20, January, 1975
Country: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Studies: Juilliard School
Teachers: Milton Babbitt
Website: https://www.katiagocs.com/
From 2005 to 2006, she lived in Budapest and wrote on the new-music scene in Hungary for the journal The Musical Times.[1] She had previously organized an exchange program between the Juilliard School and the Liszt Academy.[2] The Hungarian-language weekly, Bécsi Napló (Vienna Journal) acknowledged her contribution to the visibility of Hungarian composers abroad.[3] She served as Composer in Residence for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2010.[4]
Agócs was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.[5][6] In 2014 the American Academy of Arts and Letters named her as recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Music.[7] 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,[8] named one of the top 10 Classical albums of 2016 by the Boston Globe.[9] 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.[10][11]
Agócs has written on American music for the journal Tempo[12] and also created a critical edition of the Symphony in A Major by Leopold Damrosch.[13]
Works for Percussion
Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra (Agocs) - Violin; Percussion Sextet
Joystick - Multiple Percussion
References
- ↑ The mechanics of culture: new music in Hungary since 1990 |journal=The Musical Times |volume= 1896|issue=246 |pages=5–18 |doi= 10.2307/25434400|jstor=25434400 |year=2006
- ↑ Juilliard Journal, October 2005, Raymond J. Lustig, "Twin Concerts Foster a New York-Budapest Exchange of New Music"
- ↑ Hungarian Music Week in New York |url=http://www.becsinaplo.eu/impresszum.htm |journal=Bécsi Napló |date=March–April 2007 |publisher=Zentralverband |volume=1 |issue=1|access-date=April 11, 2015
- ↑ http://www.hungarianpresence.ca/Culture/Music/kati-agocs-219.cfm | title=Kati Agócs and Winnipeg's New Music Festival |date= 7 February 2011 |author=Kevin Burns |publisher=Hungarian Presence in Canada |accessdate=11 April 2015
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17348-kati-agocs | title=Kati Agócs | accessdate=22 March 2015
- ↑ 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition awarded to Kati Agócs |date=15 April 2013 |publisher=Canadian Music Centre
- ↑ http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2014music.php%7Ctitle=Music awards press release|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Letters|date=March 5, 2014|accessdate=March 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325193103/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2014music.php%7Carchive-date=March 25, 2014|url-status=dead
- ↑ {{Rosenberg |first1=Donald |title=AGÓCS The Debrecen Passion |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/agócs-the-debrecen-passion |website=www.gramophone.co.uk |language=en |date=5 October 2017
- ↑ https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2016/12/22/top-classical-albums/Rez6Oe3mNajrKx1ycHKaQM/story.html | title=Top 10 classical albums |date= 2016 |publisher=Boston Globe |accessdate=23 December 2016
- ↑ {{http://www.bmop.org/explore-bmop/musicians/kati-ag%C3%B3cs | title=Boston Modern Orchestra Project |date= 2010 |publisher=Boston Modern Orchestra Project |accessdate=11 April 2015
- ↑ http://junoawards.ca/nominees/ | title=2017 Juno Nominees |date= 2017 |publisher=Juno Award |accessdate=7 February 2017
- ↑ last=Agócs|first=Kati|title=Two recent concertos by George Tsontakis|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/tempo/article/abs/two-recent-concertos-by-george-tsontakis/7428DB430D769B122FF48E90EF1F9288#%7Cjournal=Tempo%7Cvolume=62%7Cdate=2008-10-02%7Cissue=246 |pages=11–21 |doi=10.1017/S0040298208000247 |s2cid=145205416 |access-date=2021-10-22
- ↑ last=Agócs |first=Kati |title=Recent Researches in American Music |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8632927W/Symphony_in_A_Major_(Recent_Researches_in_American_Music) |publisher= A-R Editions |isbn=9780895795823 |accessdate=11 April 2015 |year=2005