Agócs, Kati

Composer Name

Biography

Born: 20, January, 1975

Country: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Studies: Juilliard School

Teachers: Milton Babbitt

Website: 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.<ref>Template:The mechanics of culture: new music in Hungary since 1990</ref> She had previously organized an exchange program between the Juilliard School and the Liszt Academy.<ref>Juilliard Journal, October 2005, Raymond J. Lustig, "Twin Concerts Foster a New York-Budapest Exchange of New Music"</ref> The Hungarian-language weekly, Bécsi Napló (Vienna Journal) acknowledged her contribution to the visibility of Hungarian composers abroad.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> She served as Composer in Residence for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2010.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Agócs was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2014 the American Academy of Arts and Letters named her as recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Music.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> named one of the top 10 Classical albums of 2016 by the Boston Globe.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Agócs has written on American music for the journal Tempo<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and also created a critical edition of the Symphony in A Major by Leopold Damrosch.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>