The National Youth Orchestra of Canada premieres new commissioned orchestral work Perpetual Summer for its 50th Anniversary Season, with nation-wide tour and with Kati Agócs composer-in-residence for Summer 2010! Maestro Jacques LaCombe conducts. See Performances page for schedule

Announcing Orchestral Performances for 2010-2011: Performances of orchestral works by Kati Agócs include Symphony Nova Scotia, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (World Premiere), Metropolis Ensemble in New York (World Premiere), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project.....See Performances page for further details

Boston Modern Orchestra Project launches new CD collaboration with Kati Agócs with the U.S. premiere and world premiere recording of Requiem Fragments in Jordan Hall, Boston. Gil Rose conducts. The Boston Globe reports: "Requiem Fragments was moving and taut: rolling waves of tangled activity breaking into a cathartic tonal chorale - only to crash and collapse into a quiet, scattered ending". (Matthew Guerrieri)

Kati Agócs is featured on the front page of The Boston Globe's Sunday Arts and Entertainment section as one of the inaugural Brother Thomas Fellows, highlighting new collaboration with Boston Modern Orchestra Project on a full-length CD of her orchestral music (April 25, 2010)

Rave review of Supernatural Love (duet for Violin and Piano) in Fanfare Magazine's July-August issue! "The overall effect is serene and unworldly, exploring space with sound in a way that seems to evoke the time before the universe hosted life." See more of the review on Press Page.

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival to feature Kati Agócs orchestral work '....like treasure hidden in a field' on its Gala Closing Concert, New Music Festival, 20th Anniversary Season (2010-2011), together with the Eight Symphony of Penderecki (and with both composers in attendance)

New work for orchestra commissioned by the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra for Spring 2011; Maestro James Sommerville will conduct the premiere on April 16 in Hamilton, Ontario

National Arts Centre Orchestra premieres newly commissioned work Elysium (for Orchestra and Tape) on its Cultural Olympiad Concert, Chan Centre, Vancouver, March 15, 2010 with Julian Kuerti conducting; the piece features original field recordings of Newfoundland residents recallling shipwrecks

Harpist Bridget Kibbey performs the signature work 'Every Lover is a Warrior' at The Stone, New York, 18 May 2010. See the new live video of Bridget performing 'John Riley', the first movement of 'Every Lover is a Warrior' on You Tube!

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; Collaboration with PRISM is profiled in the Philadelphia Enquirer: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/82873132.html

Kati Agócs performs as soprano soloist in By the Streams of Babylon with the Spartanburg Philharmonic (Daniel Alfred Wachs, 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.

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,

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)

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
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