Musical scores for selected works by Kati Agócs are now distributed internationally by Theodore Front Musical Literature; Scores and parts are still available here on this site (June 2019)
The 2019 Aspen Music Festival features Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra with Jennifer Koh as soloist (May 2019); Read season announcement
World Premiere with Ashmont Hill Chamber Music: The Boston Globe’s Winter Arts Preview features Rogue Emoji, commissioned by Ashmont Hill Chamber Music for Hub New Music with support from the Cricket Foundation, in its Classical Music Picks (April 2019)
New York premiere of Hyacinth Curl on Dawn Upshaw’s vocal program with Bard Conservatory singers at National Sawdust (April 2019); watch a video of the piece
The Claremont Trio performs Queen of Hearts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (November 2018) Hear the piece
Kati Agócs is a visiting composer at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (July 2018) Read details
Imprimatur, second string quartet by Kati Agócs, opens the 2018 Aspen Music Festival with world premiere; Commissioned jointly by the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Harvard Musical Association, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne in honour of the 15th Anniversary of the Jupiter String Quartet; Read the Aspen Times article; Read the Aspen Daily News article (June 2018)
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs the Canadian premieres of Vessel and Devotion with Bramwell Tovey conducting; Vessel was originally commissioned by Meet the Composer for Metropolis Ensemble and Devotion was originally commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (May 2018)
Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra world premiere and recording by Nicholas Kitchen, Violin and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble conducted by Frank Epstein, Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University; Forthcoming release on Naxos International (April 2018)
80th Birthday concert for Joan Tower spearheaded by Kati Agócs at New England Conservatory (February 2018) Read the Boston Globe article on Joan's residency, including interview with Kati Agócs
New Music Box article by Katherine Balch on Kati Agócs's musical mentorship and studio teaching at the New England Conservatory (July 2017)
The Debrecen Passion, work for 12 female voices and orchestra, is nominated for Classical Composition of the Year in the 2017 Juno Awards (April 2017)
Solo piano work commissioned by The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, performed by finalists in the Iowa Piano Competition (March 2017)
The Toronto Symphony and the Prince Edward Island Symphony co-commission A Hero's Welcome; world premiere conducted by Hannu Lintu: (March 2017)
The Debrecen Passion (CD) is one of The Boston Globe's Top Ten Classical Albums of 2016: "sublime....a mystical confluence of the sacred and secular illuminated by the superb Lorelei Ensemble and BMOP" (December 2016)
The Debrecen Passion (CD) is a 2016 MusicWeb International Recording of the Year: "highly imaginative and compelling" (December 2016)
The Debrecen Passion is Music Web International's Album of the Month: "a moving, spiritual experience, both powerful and uplifting...music with a timeless appeal...a disc worthy of attention, and guaranteed to offer an overwhelming experience..." (September 2016)
The Cecilia String Quartet premieres Tantric Variations, first String Quartet by Kati Agócs (Cecilia String Quartet Commission), in Toronto (April 2016); Listen to the Cecilia Quartet perform the piece on Stradivarius Instruments at the Library of Congress
The Debrecen Passion is New York's WQXR Q2 Album of the Week: "high-craft, high-drama music...hurtles themes of love and devotion through a particularly intense prism of influences and language" (January 2016)
Focus! 2016 - Milton Babbitt's World: A Centennial Celebration features chamber music by Kati Agócs; The New York Times highlights the Babbitt centennial in William Robin's article 'Making Milton Babbit's Legacy Less Fearsome" with quote from Kati Agócs (January 2016); Read the New York Times article
Boston Musical Intelligencer Previews Portrait Concert Strength in Fragility: Chamber Music of Kati Agócs in Jordan Hall (January 2016)
The Boston Globe: Looking Ahead to Bounty of 2016 Concerts features Kati Agócs Portrait Concert in Jordan Hall (December 2015)
Symphony Nova Scotia premieres newly commissioned Schubert orchestration by Kati Agócs (December 2015)
Press release from 21C Media, Inc.: January Album Release and Spring 2016 Concerts (December 2015)
The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University awards a 2015 Fromm Commission to Kati Agócs; new concerto for violin and percussion orchestra to be premiered by the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, December 2015
Virtual Residency at the North Carolina School for the Arts, December 2015
Kati Agócs travels to Havana, Cuba as part of American Composers Forum Artistic Delegation to Cuba for performance of Immutable Dreams, November 2015; Read listener impressions
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music awards recording grant for The Debrecen Passion, BMOP/Sound's upcoming CD of orchestral music by Kati Agócs (August 2015)
The Massachusetts Cultural Council names Kati Agócs as the recipient of an Artist Fellowship award in Music Composition (June 2015)
The Chelsea Music Festival presents Immutable Dreams at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York with Kati Agócs as Composer in Residence, (June 2015)
Ensemble Reconsil Vienna presents the Austrian premiere of Immutable Dreams in Vienna (May 2015)
The American Academy of Arts and Letters presents Saint Elizabeth Bells, Supernatural Love, and works by fellow 2014 Arts and Letters Award in Music winners in inaugural Salon Concert in New York, April 2015
David Weininger writes in The Boston Globe on The Debrecen Passion premiere, January 2015
Interview with Kati Agócs in The Boston Musical Intelligencer, January 2015
News release from 21C Media Group: The Debrecen Passion premiered by Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Lorelei Ensemble, January 2015
The Windsor Symphony Orchestra performs Shenanigan in the composer's birthplace, November 2014
Kati Agócs wins the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; The Arts and Letters Award in Music, formerly the Academy Award, honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice. The Academy cited "music that seems to come directly from nature... a wonderfully accessible lyricism.....music that unfolds with both drama and complexity, and takes risks with both the ideas and the use of the instruments". See a photograph from the Academy's exhibition of award winners, May 2014
Sopranos Anne Harley and Jane Sheldon premiere Divani Hayati, setting of a Ghazal by Bibi Hayati in the original Farsi for two sopranos and percussion, Canada Council for the Arts Commission (April 2014)
Ensemble Reconsil Vienna presents the European premiere of the string trio All the Ends of the World (March 2014)
Devotion, Commission from The Boston Symphony Orchestra for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the BSO Chamber Players is premiered in Boston, (February 2014)
World premiere of Saint Elizabeth Bellson the New England Conservatory's First Monday series (November 2014); Saint Elizabeth Bells is a duet for cello and cimbalom honouring the memory of Sándor András Agócs (1932-2011)
World Premiere of Crystallography for soprano and chamber ensemble with texts by Canadian poet Christian Bök, commissioned by Standing Wave Ensemble in Vancouver (October 2013)
Kati Agócs is named a 2013 Composition Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (April 2013)