Kati Agócs facts for kids
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Kati Ilona Agócs
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Agócs in December 2015
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| Born | January 20, 1975 |
| Origin | Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Contemporary classical |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
Kati Ilona Agócs, born on January 20, 1975, is a talented composer from Canada and the United States. She teaches music composition at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Kati Agócs's Education Journey
Kati Agócs studied at the Juilliard School in New York. There, she earned her Master's and Doctoral degrees. Her main teacher was Milton Babbitt, a famous composer. She also attended special music programs. These included the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center. In 2007, she received a special award there called the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship. She also learned to sing from Adele Addison.
Kati Agócs's Career and Awards
From 2005 to 2006, Kati Agócs lived in Budapest, Hungary. She wrote about new music from Hungary for a journal called The Musical Times. Before this, she helped set up a student exchange program. This program was between the Juilliard School and the Liszt Academy in Hungary. A Hungarian newspaper, Bécsi Napló, praised her for helping Hungarian composers get noticed. In 2010, she was the Composer in Residence for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. This means she worked closely with the orchestra.
In 2013, Agócs received a Guggenheim Fellowship. This is a special award given to people who show great ability in their field. The next year, in 2014, the American Academy of Arts and Letters gave her an Arts and Letters Award in Music. Today, she has a studio in Flatrock, Newfoundland, Canada. This is where she creates her music.
Kati Agócs's Personal Life
Kati Agócs has one daughter named Olivia.
Kati Agócs's Music and Compositions
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project recorded an album of her music in 2016. It was called The Debrecen Passion. The Boston Globe newspaper named it one of the top 10 classical albums of that year. The main song from this album was nominated for a Juno Award in 2017. A Juno Award is a big music award in Canada. It was nominated for Classical Composition of the Year.
In 2022, her piece called Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra was also nominated. It was again for Classical Composition of the Year. Agócs has also written about American music for a journal called Tempo. She also helped create a special version of the Symphony in A Major by Leopold Damrosch.
Main Musical Works by Kati Agócs
Kati Agócs has written many different types of music. Here are some of her important works.
Music for Solo Instruments and Small Groups
These pieces are for one instrument or a small group of up to seven instruments.
- Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra (2018): This piece is for a solo violin and six percussion players.
- Crystallography (2012): This work is for a singer (soprano) and a small group of instruments.
- Every Lover is a Warrior (2005): This piece is written for a solo harp.
- Hymn (2005): This is a piece for a saxophone quartet, which is a group of four saxophones.
- Imprimatur (String Quartet No. 2) (2018): This is her second string quartet, written for four string instruments.
- Voices of the Immaculate (2021): This piece is for a mezzo-soprano singer and a small group of instruments.
Music for Orchestras and Large Ensembles
These pieces are written for bigger groups of musicians, like an orchestra.
- By the Streams of Babylon (2009): This piece is for two amplified soprano singers and a chamber orchestra.
- The Debrecen Passion (2015): This work is for twelve female voices and a chamber orchestra. It uses texts from different languages.
- Elysium (Chamber Orchestra and Recorded Sound): This piece combines a chamber orchestra with recorded sounds.
- Horn Concerto (2021): This is a concerto for a solo horn player and a chamber orchestra.
- Requiem Fragments (2008): This piece is written for a chamber orchestra.
- Shenanigan (2011): This is a piece for a full orchestra.
