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From 2005 to 2006, she lived in [[Budapest]] and wrote on the new-music scene in [[Hungary]] for the journal ''[[The Musical Times]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Agócs |first=Kati |title=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 }}</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>{{cite journal |title=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}}</ref> She served as Composer in Residence for the [[National Youth Orchestra of Canada]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=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}}</ref>
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Agócs was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/17348-kati-agocs | title=Kati Agócs | accessdate=22 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition awarded to Kati Agócs  |date=15 April 2013  |publisher=[[Canadian Music Centre]]}}</ref> In 2014 the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] named her as recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2014music.php|title=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|archive-date=March 25, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> She maintains a work studio in Flatrock, Newfoundland, Canada.
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Agócs is married to the American composer [[Robert Beaser]].
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[[Boston Modern Orchestra Project]] recorded and released the 2016 album ''The Debrecen Passion'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=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}}</ref> named one of the top 10 Classical albums of 2016 by the ''[[Boston Globe]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=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}}</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>{{cite web |url=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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://junoawards.ca/nominees/  | title=2017 Juno Nominees  |date= 2017 |publisher=[[Juno Award]] |accessdate=7 February 2017}}</ref>
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Agócs has written on American music for the journal ''Tempo''<ref>{{Cite journal|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#|journal=Tempo|volume=62|date=2008-10-02|issue=246 |pages=11–21 |doi=10.1017/S0040298208000247 |s2cid=145205416 |access-date=2021-10-22}}</ref> and also created a critical edition of the ''Symphony in A Major'' by [[Leopold Damrosch]].<ref>{{cite book |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 }}</ref>
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Biography

Born: 20, January, 1975

Country: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Studies: Juilliard School

Teachers: Milton Babbitt

Website: www.katiagocs.com


Career

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.

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,[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]


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