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Dennis Báthory-Kitsz
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz has composed for acoustic installations, chamber groups, custom circuits, dancers, handmade instruments, improv, interactive multimedia & live electronics, orchestras, performance events, playback, soloists, sound sculptures, stage shows, and theremin. He directs Il Gruppo Nuke Jitters, and has been commissioned by more than 150 ensembles and performers.
He advanced the chamber opera resurgence with Plasm over ocean at the World Trade Center in 1977; the interactive performance work Echo for solo performer, handmade instruments & computers was presented in Vermont in 1985; In Bocca al Lupo for quasi-intelligent systems was installed in Montana's Yellowstone Art Center in 1986; the outdoor Vermont installation Traveler's Rest was a 1991 collaboration with West Coast sculptor Fernanda D'Agostino; in 1999, he became the first American composer commissioned at Prague's Mánes Museum, conducting Zonule Glaes II for string quartet & electronic playback; and concerts dedicated to his music were held at Amsterdam's Zaal 100 in 2003 and De Rode Pomp in Ghent in 2005.
Dennis's vampire opera Erzsébet was premiered in 2011, and is to be presented at Cséjthe Castle in Slovakia. Recent commissions Air for harp & percussion (Duo Harpverk); Giè for alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, guitar and djembe (Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble); Autumn Dig for orchestra (Green Mountain Youth Symphony); Near Greensboro Bend (Heritage Brass) and a hundred compositions for the 2007 We Are All Mozart project. His electronic compositions have recently been collected in the 4-CD set Bolt.
His radio/cyber show Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, co-hosted with David Gunn, won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Internet Award in 2000. He was project director for the Ought-One Festival of NonPop, and co-founded the NonPop International Network of radio and Internet new music shows.
Dennis speaks and writes about music and composition and is Senior Editor for The Transitive Empire, and authored Country Stores of Vermont: A History and Guide (History Press). Dennis's virtual home is at maltedmedia.com and he lives in Northfield, Vermont, in the U.S.