Composer
Biography:
Dániel Péter Biró is Associate Professor / Førsteamanuensis at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen (Norway). He studied in the USA, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, Austria and Israel. In 2004 he received his PhD 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 prize from the ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology) and the SWR Experimentalstudio. In 2011 he was a visiting professor at the University of Utrecht and from 2014 to 2015 he was a research fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2015 he was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists.
In 2016 he finished his cycle of compositions Mishpatim (Laws). In 2017 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on a new cycle of compositions based on texts by the 17th-century philosopher Baruch de Spinoza. Dániel Péter Biró has received commissions from famous musicians, ensembles and festivals. His compositions are performed all over the world.
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