Olympic Premiere! The National Arts Centre Orchestra premieres newly commissioned work Elysium for Orchestra and Tape on its Cultural Olympiad Concert, Chan Centre, Vancouver, March 15, 2010, 8PM, with Julian Kuerti conducting

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival to feature Kati Agócs orchestral work '....like treasure hidden in a field' on its Gala closing concert, 20th Anniversary Season (2010-2011)

The National Youth Orchestra of Canada to premiere new commissioned work Eternal Summer for its 50th Anniversary Season, Summer 2010, with nation-wide tour

New work for orchestra commissioned by the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra for Spring 2011; James Sommerville will conduct the premiere

Boston Modern Orchestra Project to present Kati Agócs orchestral work Requiem Fragments in its U.S. Premiere, 28 May 2010 in Jordan Hall, Boston, with Gil Rose conducting

The Boston Foundation announces that Kati Agócs has been awarded an inaugural Brother Thomas Fellowships; this $15,000 award is given biannually to eight New England artists working in various media to honour the legacy of renowned Nova Scotia-born ceramic artist (and monk) Brother Thomas Bezanson. More information on Brother Thomas and his work: http://www.puckergallery.com/bt.html.

New recordings of chamber music Kati Agócs by PRISM Saxophone Quartet (Breath Beneath, on the New Dynamic label) and saxophonist Timothy McAllister (glint, on the Innova label) released in February 2010

Kati Agócs to perform as soloist in By the Streams of Babylon with the Spartanburg Philharmonic (Sarah Ioannides, Conductor) as part of Meet the Composer's new Music Alive: New Partnerships program, with one-week composer residency

BBC Music Magazine gives a four-star review to new CD The Ice Age and Beyond, stating that "the outstanding work is Kati Agócs's Imagination of Their Hearts (2004), a cycle for voice and four instruments setting medieval and folk poems in five languages". Disc by Patricia Green, mezzo-soprano, Midori Koga, piano, and members of the Quorum Chamber Arts Collective, on the Blue Griffin label

World premiere of Awakening Galatea (trio for harp, flute, and soprano), featuring Kati Agócs as soprano soloist and composer-in-residence, at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, June 2009; Boston premiere featured on First Monday series at Jordan Hall, The New England Conservatory, November 2009

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York features 'Microconcerto in memorium György Ligeti' from Immutable Dreams on its New Music in the Rose series, 7 May 2009

Pearls- new work commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra - -premiered in Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall), New York, February 2009 (George Manahan, Conductor); Canadian premiere of Pearls presented by the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (James Sommerville, Conductor), March 2009, Hamilton, Ontario. Read the Reviews on PRESS page.

Commissions for 2009-2010 include The National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Canada Council for the Arts (for L'Ensemble de flûtes Alizé with conductor Véronique Lacroix, Montreal), The National Youth Orchestra of Canada (50th Anniversary Season), and cellist André Emelianoff (for premiere on New York recital)

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Gil Rose, Conductor) features By the Streams of Babylon, with Kati Agócs and Lisa Bielawa as soprano soloists, together with other New England Conservatory faculty and affiliates on its Jordan Hall Series: Boston ConNECtion concert, January 2009, Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory. The Boston Globe calls it "music of fluidity and austere beauty...." Read the Reviews on PRESS page.

CBC Radio Orchestra premieres newly commissioned work Requiem Fragments with Alain Trudel conducting on their Grande Finale Concert, November 2008, Chan Centre, Vancouver, Canada, with national broadcast. For a short time only, hear the premiere recording on Works page.

Grammy-award winning chamber ensemble eighth blackbird showcases the "mesmerizing" Immmutable Dreams on national U.S. tour (Read the Reviews on PRESS page)

Kati Agócs appointed to the composition faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston Read the NEC news link

The American Academy of Arts and Letters awards a 2008 Charles Ives Fellowship to Kati Agócs Read the news story in the national Hungarian publication, Fidelio Súgó (Budapest)

CBC Commission for solo piano Nostalgia for Airs Unheard released on new CD by Centrediscs http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspItemDetails&buyItemsID=1855
in performance by Christina Petrowska Quilico

Supernatural Love is featured at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival and on national tour of China by Duo Concertante (Violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves) (reviews on PRESS page)

Time Out New York celebrates "Love is Come Again", CD featuring harpist Bridget Kibbey's debut recording of Every Lover is a Warrior, as one of its Top 10 Recordings of 2007

ASCAP Foundation presents the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to Kati Agócs in Awards Ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York. (Read the CBC News Profile)

MUSO Classical Music Magazine (U.K.) profiles Kati Agócs’s collaboration with harpist Bridget Kibbey as part of a performer feature article (Read the article)

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble premieres new commissioned work for cello duet, I and Thou, on its Second Helpings Series, Notable Women Festival (Review on Press page) (Hear Work)
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