Dániel Péter Biró
Dániel Péter Biró is Professor for Composition at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen. Dániel Péter Biró studied in the U.S., Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel before receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. From 2004–2009 he was Assistant Professor and from 2009–2018 Associate Professor for Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada. In 2010 he received the Gigahertz Production Prize from the ZKM-Center for Art and Media. In 2011 he was Visiting Professor at Utrecht University and in 2014–2015 Research Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
In 2015 he was elected to the College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Dániel Péter Biró has been commissioned by prominent musicians, ensembles and festivals and his compositions are performed around the world. He is currently leader of the research project Sounding Philosophy,funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (2021-2025).
Website: www.danielpeterbiro.no
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