Composer
Biography:
Dániel Péter Biró is Associate Professor at the Grieg Academy of the University of Bergen (Norway). He studied in the USA, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, Austria and Israel. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. From 2004 to 2009, he was Assistant Professor and from 2009 to 2018 Associate Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC (Canada).
In 2010, he received the Giga Hertz Production Award from the ZKM (Centre for Art and Media Technology) and SWR Experimental Studio. In 2011, he was a visiting professor at Utrecht University and, from 2014 to 2015, a research fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2015, he was inducted into the College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists of the Royal Society of Canada.
In 2016, he completed his composition cycle Mishpatim (Laws). In 2017, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a new composition cycle based on texts by the 17th-century philosopher Baruch de Spinoza. Dániel Péter Biró has received commissions from renowned musicians, ensembles and festivals. His compositions are performed all over the world.
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