Kati Agócs
composer

Composer Kati Agócs was born in Windsor, Canada, of Hungarian and American background, and has been on the composition faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston since 2008. The Boston Globe recently praised the “fluidity and austere beauty" of her music, while The New York Times has characterized it as "striking" and "filled with attractive ideas" and has described her vocal music as possessing "an almost 19th-century naturalness." A citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (for the 2008 Charles Ives Fellowship) noted the "melody, drama, and clear design" of her music, its "soulful directness", and its "naturalness of dissonance."

Recent works include Vessel, on which she collaborated with Metropolis Ensemble as part of Meet the Composer’s Three-City Dash; Immutable Dreams, a Jerome Foundation commission which has been programmed by over eight different ensembles since its 2007 premiere, including a national tour by Eighth Blackbird; Elysium, commissioned by the National Arts Centre and performed as part of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver; Perpetual Summer, commissioned for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada's 50th Anniversary and awarded Special Distinction in ASCAP's 2011 Rudolph Nissim Prize (one of only three works selected by a jury of conductors out of over 260 anonymously-submitted new orchestral scores); and Supernatural Love, a violin-piano duet described by Fanfare Magazine as "serene and unworldly, exploring space with sound in a way that seems to evoke the time before the universe hosted life." Kati Agócs earned Doctoral and Masters degrees from The Juilliard School, where her principal teacher was Milton Babbitt, and was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center with the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Fellowship.

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