User:KatiAgocs

KatiAgocs

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Kati Agócs in Winnipeg, June 2022
Name	Kati Agócs
Born	Windsor, Ontario
Pronouns	She/her/hers
Country	Canada, United States, Hungary
Current location	Boston, Massachusetts
Education and employment
Occupation	Composer, Professor
Education	Doctor of Musical Arts
University	New England Conservatory of Music
Account statistics
Joined	September 2018
First edit	November 2018
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Musical artist (concert music composer) based in Boston. Relatively new to Wikipedia. Interested in editing articles on contemporary music composition. This is my userpage. To learn more about my work in music composition, visit my main article.

Wikipedia Editing Interests

I am interested in collaborating with other editors. Have been learning more about Wikipedia standards and protocols, and about how I can contribute.

Interested in contributing to articles about living classical music composers (and some composers from past eras), particularly those who are not as well-known as other composers in their cohort.

Articles I'm Working On

• Balint Bakfark
• Barbara Kolb

• Luigi Dallapiccola
• Zoltán Jeney

• Louise Talma
• Laszlo Vidovsky

WikiProjects

Wikiproject Composers

Wikiproject Classical Music

Brief Biography

I was born in Canada and received my musical education in the U.S. I am a citizen of Canada, the United States, and Hungary. My father left Hungary in the 1956 uprising and went to Italy and then the U.S. I attended one of the United World Colleges from ages sixteen through eighteen. I lived in Budapest on a Fulbright fellowship, and have a special interest in Hungarian music. I also have an interest in 19^th-century American orchestral music: My doctoral work was on a member of the Damrosch Family, who founded The Juilliard School in New York. For this, I did original research at the Library of Congress.

I am a composer of contemporary classical music. I write music for orchestras, singers, and chamber ensembles. I played in rock bands before being a classical musician, and am also a singer. In my own music, I am most interested in writing sacred works, and in collaborating directly with instrumentalists, singers, and orchestras. I am a Christian humanist who believes in the power of new concert music to bring us together and to evolve our thinking. As an educator, I strive to help younger generations of composers to write works that can stand up in the concert hall alongside the great works of the classical canon.