Kati Agócs Explained
Kati Ilona Agócs |
Background: | non_performing_personnel |
Occupation: | Composer |
Genre: | Contemporary classical |
Origin: | Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
Birth Date: | 1975 1, mf=yes |
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.
Education
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]
Career
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.
Personal life
Agócs is married to the American composer Robert Beaser.
Music
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]
Select principal works
Solo and chamber works up to seven instruments
- Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra (Solo violin and six percussionists) 2018.[16] Recorded performance by violinist Nicholas Kitchen and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble led by director Frank Epstein.
- Crystallography (Soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion) 2012 (Text: Christian Bök)[17]
- Every Lover is a Warrior (Solo harp) 2005[18] [19]
- Hymn (Saxophone quartet) 2005[20]
- Imprimatur (String Quartet No. 2) 2018[21]
- Voices of the Immaculate (Lyric Mezzo-Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano/Celeste) 2021 (Text: Assembled by the composer: Fragments from Revelations and testimony from survivors of abuse by clergy)[22]
Orchestra / large ensemble works
- By the Streams of Babylon (Two amplified soprano voices and chamber orchestra) 2009 (Text: Psalm 137 in Latin)[23]
- The Debrecen Passion (Twelve female voices and chamber orchestra) 2015 (Text: poems by Szilárd Borbély in Hungarian; Lamentations of Mary in modern Hungarian translation by Ferenc Molnár [fragments]; Ana B’Choach [in Hebrew]; Stabat Mater Specioso [fragments, in Latin]; Thou Art a Vineyard [hymn text in Georgian])[24] [25]
- Elysium (Chamber Orchestra and Recorded Sound)[18] [26]
- Horn Concerto (Solo Horn and Chamber Orchestra) 2021[27] [28]
- Requiem Fragments (Chamber Orchestra) 2008[29]
- Shenanigan (Orchestra) 2011[30]
External links
Notes and References
- News: Making Milton Babbitt's Legacy Less Fearsome. 8 February 2017. The New York Times. 2016-01-13. Robin. William.
- Web site: The ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship at Tanglewood . 11 April 2015.
- Agócs . Kati . The mechanics of culture: new music in Hungary since 1990 . . 1896. 246 . 5–18 . 10.2307/25434400. 25434400 . 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 . Bécsi Napló . March–April 2007 . Zentralverband . 1 . 1. April 11, 2015.
- Web site: Kati Agócs and Winnipeg's New Music Festival . 7 February 2011 . Kevin Burns . Hungarian Presence in Canada . 11 April 2015.
- Web site: Kati Agócs . 22 March 2015.
- News: 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition awarded to Kati Agócs . 15 April 2013 . Canadian Music Centre.
- Web site: Music awards press release. American Academy of Arts and Letters. March 5, 2014. March 26, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140325193103/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2014music.php. March 25, 2014. dead.
- Web site: Rosenberg . Donald . AGÓCS The Debrecen Passion . www.gramophone.co.uk . en . 5 October 2017.
- Web site: Top 10 classical albums . 2016 . . 23 December 2016.
- Web site: Boston Modern Orchestra Project . 2010 . . 11 April 2015.
- Web site: 2017 Juno Nominees . 2017 . . 7 February 2017.
- Agócs. Kati. Two recent concertos by George Tsontakis. Tempo. 62. 2008-10-02. 246 . 11–21 . 10.1017/S0040298208000247 . 145205416 . 2021-10-22.
- Book: Agócs, Kati . Recent Researches in American Music . A-R Editions . 9780895795823 . 11 April 2015 . 2005 .
- Web site: Steiman. Harvey. Review: Lugansky, Hadelich in majestic recitals at Aspen Music Festival and School. 2021-02-12. www.aspentimes.com. 10 August 2019 . en-US.
- Web site: The-new-music-festival-2014 . 25 March 2015.
- Web site: agócs-olympics . 25 March 2015.
- Web site: Kati Agócs: "John Riley" from "Every Lover is a Warrior" . . 11 April 2015.
- Web site: Hymn Kati Agócs. 18 December 2011 . . 11 April 2015.
- News: Jupiter String Quartet to open Aspen Music Festival season. Andrew . Travers . . 27 June 2018 . 24 April 2019.
- Web site: Woolfe. Zachary. 2021-12-10. Review: For Once, Singing of Complete and Utter Clarity. 17 January 2022. The New York Times.
- Web site: Kati Agócs performance of By the Streams of Babylon . 1 February 2009 . . 11 April 2015.
- News: Agocs Draws Hungarian Poetry for BMOP Premiere . Boston Globe. 22 March 2015.
- Web site: A Tribute to Borbély, a Poet of Our Time . The Boston Music Intelligencer . 11 April 2015. 2015-01-21 .
- News: Kati Agócs: Elysium . Canadian Music Centre.
- Web site: Horlyk. Earl. 2021-11-11. Sioux City Symphony Orchestra to premiere new Concerto by award-winning composer. 17 January 2022. Sioux City Journal.
- Web site: 2021-11-18. Review: Sioux City Symphony world premiere of Kati Agocs horn concerto. 17 January 2022. The Hub League of American Orchestras.
- News: Guerrieri. Matthew. 2010-05-31. BMOP's feast of new music. Boston.com. 2021-02-12.
- Web site: Bright colours, dull pianist in Toronto Symphony evening. John . Terauds . . 27 September 2012 . 23 April 2019.