Guest Speakers

DANIEL PETER BIRO

Panelist
Composer ~ Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
http://finearts.uvic.ca/~dpbiro/

Awarded the Hungarian Government's Kodály Award for Hungarian composers, Dániel Péter Biró's compositions have been performed at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, at the Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary, at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany, at the LITSK Festival for Computer Music in Princeton, U.S.A., and have been broadcast on Swiss, Austrian, German, and Italian State radio. Recent commissions come from the Interart Festival Center, Hungary from the Schlachthaus Theater, Switzerland, from the Stuttgart Opera, Germany and the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Dániel Péter Biró is Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria. Dr. Biró completed his Ph.D. in composition at Princeton University in 2004.  His teaching areas include composition, music theory and analysis, early notational development, ethnomusicology, critical theory (Adorno, Bourdieu, Marxism) and electroacoustic music. He was a Fulbright scholar in Germany. He conducted research of Hungarian folk music at the Academy of Science in Budapest and of Jewish music in Israel.

In 2005 he was a fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory.  In 2006 he was a featured composer and lecturer at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music where his composition "Mishpatim" was performed by the ensemble recherche.  He is currently working on an electroacoustic composition commissioned by the German Radio (HR) for members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.  Dániel Péter Biró is presently a faculty fellow at the University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, researching the role of syntax in early Jewish and Christian chant traditions.