Premiere at Le Poisson Rouge in New York, January 2012, presented by Metropolis Ensemble

Kati Agócs to make Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut in 2012! Details of work and program to be announced 1 February, 2012

Boston performance of Vessel is a Boston Globe Critics Pick: November 20 2011, Jordan Hall, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, 'True North' program

Music by Kati Agócs is an Audience Choice Winner on the SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival in New York. Broadcast on WQXR's Re:Sound Program

Music by Kati Agócs featured on Boston's WGBH: Hear 'Every Lover is a Warrior' performed live by harpist Ina Zdorovetchi

Ensemble Reconsil Vienna to perform the Viennese premiere of Immutable Dreams during international tour, 2012

Bowdoin International Chamber Music Festival (Bowdoin, Maine) features Awakening Galatea with Kati Agócs as soprano soloist July 31, 2011 as part of the Charles E. Gamper Festival

Bang on a Can Marathon in New York, June 2011, features music by Kati Agócs (PRISM Saxophone Quartet plays Hymn)

New commissioned work for solo harp, Northern Lights, previewed September 2011 at New England Conservatory by harpist Bridget Kibbey (private commission from Conrad and Louise Golaski)

Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (Marc David, conductor) to perform Kati Agócs orchestral work Perpetual Summer on 10 February 2012 in St. John's, Newfoundland

Vessel, new commission by Meet the Composer and Metropolis Ensemble, premiered at Symphony Space in New York, April 7, 2011, with a half evening's program of music by Kati Agócs and online virtual residency...Visit the Meet the Composer Studio web site at http://www.mtcstudio.org; Hear a live recording of the premiere of Vessel

Shenanigan, new work for orchestra commissioned by the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, premiered with James Sommerville conducting, April 16 2011 in Hamilton, Ontario. Shenanigan updates the traditional Reel in a lively, four-minute work for orchestra! Hear a live rehearsal of Shenanigan
Concert Band version to be premiered at New England Conservatory in February 2012 with William Drury conducting

Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal premieres Elysium for flute choir, processed solo cello, and recorded sound in Montreal on February 1, 2011 in Montreal

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra premieres ....like treasure hidden in a field on its 20th Anniversary New Music Festival's Gala Closing Concert, February 4...Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Gil Rose, conductor) performs the work in Boston March 6 to rave reviews, and records it for upcoming BMOP orchestral CD...hear a rough recording of BMOP's live performance in Jordan Hall

Perpetual Summer is the runner-up in the 2011 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim competition - ASCAP's largest and most prestigious concert music competition, recognizing oustanding American orchestral works that have not yet received professional performances. An anonymous-juried process selected only three works for recognition out of over 250 scores. Hear Perpetual Summer performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada

Supernatural Love (for violin and piano) is featured in solo recitals by violin virtuoso Yevgeny Kutik on February 14 and 27, 2011, Springer Concert Hall, Staten Island, New York and Lexinton, Massachusetts: http://www.yevgenykutik.com

New video by Eli Stine to Hymn by Kati Agócs - see it at
http://vimeo.com/20892537

Immutable Dreams gets its U.K. premiere on October 7 with Lontano (London), and is also featured in Merkin Hall on New York New Music Ensemble's season opener (November 22). Immutable Dreams has been performed by over eight different ensembles since its commission and premiere in 2007 by the Da Capo Chamber Players (including Eigth Blackbird's nation-wide tour last year).

The National Youth Orchestra of Canada premieres 50th Anniversary Commission by Kati Agócs - - Perpetual Summer at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Maestro Jacques LaCombe conducts. Kati Agócs is composer-in-residence for Summer 2010. Get the premiere recording on the NYOC's 2010 CD, just released:
http://nyoc.org/store

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. Boston Globe review on Reviews page.

Kati Agócs is featured on the front page of The Boston Globe's Sunday Arts and Entertainment section, photographed at the New England Conservatory, 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)

Fanfare Magazine review of Supernatural Love (duet for Violin and Piano) in 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." Fanfare review on Press Page.

National Arts Centre Orchestra premieres newly commissioned work Elysium (for Orchestra, Amplified Solo Cello, and Tape) on its Cultural Olympiad Concert, Chan Centre, Vancouver, March 15, 2010 with Maestro Julian Kuerti conducting

Harpist Bridget Kibbey performs the signature work 'Every Lover is a Warrior' at The Stone, New York, 18 May 2010. 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 (Maestro 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 (Maestro George Manahan, Conductor); Canadian premiere of Pearls presented by the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (Maestro 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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