Music by Kati Agócs has been commissioned and performed by many other premier ensembles and organizations including the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Minnesota Orchestra, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, Aspen and Tanglewood Music Festivals, Ensemble Reconsil Vienna, violinist Jennifer Koh, harpist Bridget Kibbey, Ensemble Reconsil Vienna, Lontano, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Hub New Music, Continuum, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal, and the multiple Grammy-award winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird, who toured the U.S. with Immutable Dreams. Recent commissions include Imprimatur (String Quartet #2), commissioned to open the Aspen Music Festival by the Harvard Musical Association, Krannert Center/University of Illinois, and the Aspen Music Festival and School for the Jupiter String Quartet; Morning Star, a motet commissioned by Boston’s Emmanuel Music in celebration of their Fiftieth Anniversary; Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra, commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University for the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble directed by Frank Epstein; Queen of Hearts, a piano trio commissioned by Chamber Music Northwest for the Claremont Trio; and The Debrecen Passion, a work for chorus and orchestra with texts by Szilárd Borbély, commissioned by The Jebediah Foundation for Lorelei Ensemble and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The Boston Globe named her album The Debrecen Passion one of its Top Ten Classical Albums of 2016. Gramophone Magazine praised its “penetrating individuality” calling the title track “an iridescent wonder.”

Residencies include the Chelsea Music Festival, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Oberlin University, National Youth Orchestra of Canada (as Composer in-Residence for their Fiftieth Anniversary), Charles Ives Music Festival, and a curatorial residency with Metropolis Ensemble in the Bowery on New York’s Lower East Side.

Born in in Canada of Hungarian and American parents, Kati Agócs earned doctoral and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School, studying with Milton Babbitt, and studied voice privately with Adele Addison. She is an alumna of the Aspen Music School, Tanglewood Music Festival, Sarah Lawrence College, and Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific (United World Colleges). She maintains a work studio in Flatrock, Newfoundland. Her works are published by Kati Agócs Music and distributed internationally by Theodore Front Musical Literature. She has served on the New England Conservatory’s composition faculty since 2008.

Photo by Kate Lemmon