Kati Agocs has studied composition with Milton Babbitt, Robert Beaser, and George Tsontakis, and voice with Adele Addsion. Among her honors are a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001), a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, honors in ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2002), and the Presser Foundation Award for music (1998). She has received commissions from the Solo Flights series (New York), Metamorphosen (Boston), PRISM Saxophone Quartet, The Juilliard School (for the annual Irene Diamond Concert in 2001), The New Juilliard Ensemble, Proteus, and Antares. In 2004-2005, she served as co-Artistic Director of the New York-Budapest Twin Concerts, a collaboration between Juilliard and the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. A candidate in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Juilliard, Kati is an alumna of the Aspen Music School, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific (United World Colleges), Juilliard (Master of Music) and Sarah Lawrence College (Bachelor of Arts).