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Dániel Péter Biró

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Dániel Péter Biró is Professor for Composition at the Grieg Academy – Department of Music at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Dániel Péter Biró began his studies at the Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, Hungary studying composition with Miklós Kocsár, music theory with Iván Madarász and guitar with Ede Roth. He studied guitar with Stefan Schmidt at the Bern Musikhochschule in Switzerland and with Jürgen Ruck at the Würzburg Musikhochschule in Germany. He continued his studies with Hans Zender (composition), Bernhard Kontarsky (score reading and chamber music) and Isabel Mundry (music theory) at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule. From 1995 - 1996 he studied composition with Michael Jarrell at the Universität für Musik in Vienna. He completed his PhD in composition at Princeton University in 2004. His dissertation was a comparative study of early notational practices in examples of Jewish Torah trope, early plainchant from St. Gallen and Hungarian laments and his dissertation composition is entitled Mishpatim (Laws) Part I. His dissertation advisors were Kofi Agawu, Scott Burnham and Paul Lansky. At Princeton University he studied musical paleography with Peter Jeffery and Judaic studies with Peter Schäfer and Rabbi James Diamond.

Dr. Biró has researched Hungarian folk music at the Academy of Science in Budapest and Jewish and Islamic chant in Israel and the Netherlands. Awarded the Hungarian Government's Kodály Scholarship for Hungarian composers, his compositions have been commissioned by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the City of Darmstadt, the Stuttgart Opera, Sudwestfunk, Vancouver New Music, the ISCM, and the Imatronic Festival. In 2001, his piece The Crossing (Daf), based on a text by Franz Kafka, was commissioned by the Stuttgart Opera. In 2003 he took part in the Sommerakademie at the Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany where he studied with Richard Barrett, Chaya Czernowin and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. There he worked with the Ensemble SurPlus, which performed the first part of his composition Mishpatim (Laws).

In 2004, Dániel Péter Biró was appointed Assistant Professor for Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC Canada. In the same year he presented his work at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany. 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 Mishpatim (Laws) Part II, commissioned by the city of Darmstadt, was performed by the ensemble recherche. In 2006 Dániel Péter Biró was a faculty fellow at the University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. In 2007 his electroacoustic composition Simanim (Signs/Traces) was performed by members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Experimentalstudio: this composition was commissioned by the German Radio (Hessischer Rundfunk).

In 2009 he was promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Music at the University of Victoria. In the same year he was granted a work-stay at the Experimentalstudio of the SWR and was awarded a SOCAN Composer Residency Grant in order to work with the Quasar Saxophone Quartet in Montreal. In 2008 he was composer-in-residence at the International Messiaen Week in Neustadt, Germany. In 2008 Dániel Péter Biró was commissioned by Vancouver New Music to write a piece for solo piano, voices, ensemble and electronics, supported through a grant of the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, premiered in October 2009. In the same year he was commissioned by the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, assisted through a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, for the work Udvarim Achadim (And the Same Words), which was featured during their Canadian Tour. In May 2010 he was a featured composer at the Mehrklang Festival in Freiburg, Germany where his composition Mishpatim – Part IV – Ko Amar (Thus Said) was premiered by Noa Frenkel, the Ensemble Surplus and the Experimentalstudio. In 2010 he was awarded grants from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts to write the next sections of the composition cycle Mishpatim (Laws) for the Ensemble SurPlus. In 2010 The ZKM - Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, and the Experimentalstudio in Freiburg, Germany awarded Dániel Péter Biró the Gigahertz Production Prize for Electronic Music.

From 2010-2015 he was a faculty member at the Matrix Academy for Electronic Music at the Experimentalstudio in Freiburg, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the fall of 2011 he was Visiting Professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University where he researched Jewish and Islamic chant traditions in the Netherlands. In 2011 he was a featured composer in the Zeitkunst Festival (Berlin, Germany) and at the Fromm Concerts at Harvard University where Hadavar (The Word) Version II was performed by Kai Wessel, Sven Thomas Kiebler and Kirk McNally. From 2011–2014 he was a faculty member at the Tedarim Project of the Meitar Ensemble at the Center for Center For Contemporary and Electronic Music in Tel Aviv, Israel and at the International Symposium of New Music and Computer Music in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2012 he received a grant-in-aid from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation to compose a new composition for the Meitar Ensemble. In the same year his composition Kivrot HaTa'avah (Graves of Craving) was selected to represent Canada in the World Music Days of the ISCM and was premiered in November 2013 at the Vienna Konzerthaus as part of the Wien Modern Festival by flautist Sylvie Lacroix. In 2012 he was commissioned by violist Ralf Ehlers (Arditti Quartet) to write new work: this new composition, Salvim (Quails), was supported with a Composer Commissioning Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and premiered at the International Symposium of New Music and Computer Music in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2012-2014 he was awarded Internal Research Grants from the University of Victoria and a grant from the Barr Ferree Fund of Princeton University to record the composition cycle Mishpatim (Laws), written from 2003-2016. In 2013 he taught at the International Masterclass for Young Composers at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2014 he completed a commissioned composition for the Neue Vocalsolisten, as a participant in the Mediterranean Voices Project, premiered at the Eclat Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2015 completed a new piece for the Schola Heidelberg and ensemble aisthesis, premiered at the University of Heidelberg, Germany in October 2015.

Prof. Biró was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University in 2014-2015 where he worked on the completion of the composition cycle Mishpatim (Laws). The recording of the cycle, performed by Noa Frenkel, the Ensemble Surplus and the Experimentalstudio, will be released by Neos Music in 2018. In 2015 he was elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2016 - 2017 he was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. In 2017 Dániel Péter Biró was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Dániel Péter Biró was co-editor of Search - Journal for New Music and Culture and co-editor (with Harald Krebs) of The String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Tradition and Legacy in Analytical Perspective (Oxford University Press: 2014). He was a founding member of the new music ensemble Tsilumos and the Salt New Music Festival and Symposium.

In 2018 he was appointed Associate Professor for Composition at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen and in 2019 he was promoted to Professor for Composition. In 2018-2019 he completed commissions from the Ultraschall Festival and the Swiss Philosophical Society, performed by Hildegard Rützel, the Ensemble Mixture, the Schola Heidelberg and the ensemble aisthesis. In 2019-2021 he continues to write the composition cycle, Ethica, based on texts of Baruch Spinoza, working with the Neue Vocalsolisten, the Norwegian Youth Chamber Music Festival Ensemble, the Bit20 Ensemble and the Klangforum Heidelberg with composition commissions from the Norwegian Youth Chamber Music Festival, Musik der Jahrhunderte, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland and the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival Oslo with funding provided from the Arts Council Norway, the Norwegian Composers' Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Dániel Péter Biró was awarded a grant for 2021-2024 from the Norwegian Artistic Research Program for the project Sounding Philosophy furthering ongoing artistic research connecting music composition, philosophy and science.

His compositions are published by Edition Gravis.

Dániel Péter Biró underviser i komposisjon på bachelor-, master- og PhD-nivå (kunstnerisk forskning) ved Griegakademiet - Institutt for musikk, Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design - Universitetet i Bergen.

MUG144 / Hovuddisiplin komposisjon 1

MUG145 / Hovuddisiplin komposisjon 2

MUV294 / Hovuddisiplin komposisjon 3

MUV295 / Hovuddisiplin komposisjon 4

MUV301 / Prosjektarbeid I, Introduksjon til arbeidsmetoder

MUV302 / Prosjektarbeid II

MUV315 / Spesialemne I for komponister

MUV316 / Spesialkurs II for komponister

MUV351 / Masterprosjekt

MUV352 / Mastereksamen i utøving eller komposisjon

Veileder: PhD i kunstnerisk forskningsprogram

Grieg Academy Composition Seminar Autumn 2018: The Production and Perception of Musical Time and Memory

Grieg Academy Composition Seminar Spring 2019: Interactive Creation and Performance of New Music

Grieg Academy Composition Seminar Autumn 2019: Music and Text - Music as Text

Grieg Academy Composition Seminar Spring 2020: Composition with Various Technologies and Environments

Vitenskapelig artikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Seligkeit statt Heuchelei. Musik & Ästhetik.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). “On Learning and Teaching Composition” in Revista Vortex Music Journal, Periódico Eletrônico |Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná | BrasilISSN 2317–9937, v. 8, n. 1, 2020 . Revista Vortex. 1-12.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Emanations: Reflections of a Composer. Konzepte. 39-62.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Existenz und Ablenkung. Musik & Ästhetik. 95-99.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Computer-assisted cantillation and chant research using content-aware web visualization tools. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 207-224.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Crowns. Kunstmusik. 2-8.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Remembering and Forgetting Lizkor VeLiskoach for String Quartet after Schubert. Circuit _ Musiques Contemporaines. 39-60.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Composing Mishpatim – Laws: A Response to Ben’s Mishna Music as a Music. Perspectives of New Music. 232-265.
Rapport
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). The Ethica Composition Cycle: Music Creation and Computational Ethnomusicology. .
Faglig foredrag
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2024). Reading the Song and Composing the Word: On Historical and Artistic Research with Jewish Cantillation.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2024). On Sounding Philosophy.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). The Philosophy of Mind in the Ethica Composition Cycle after Baruch Spinoza.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Sounding Philosophy Conference: Intuition (Part 3): Introduction.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Sounding Philosophy.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Mind and Spirit in the Ethica Composition Cycle after Baruch Spinoza.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Komponieren als Erweiterung des Bewusstseins – Der Ethica-Kompositionszyklus .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Compositional Analogy and Philosophical Idea in Scholium Secundum after Baruch Spinoza.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). "Interfaith Theology and Philosophy of Mind in the Ethica Composition Cycle after Baruch Spinoza".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). “Immigration and Return in the Ethica Composition Cycle after Baruch Spinoza” .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Parametrical Translation and Transformation in Asher Hotesti Etkhem (Who Brought You Out of Land) .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Historicized Composition and Negative Space in the Composition Gvul (Border) .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). De Natura et Origine Die drei Erkenntnisgattungen Spinozas in Musik ausgedrueckt.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Bela Bartok's work and legacy.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). “Artistic Research in Music Composition” .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). The Language of Exile, Modernist Expression in the Works of Ursula Mamlok and Galina Ustvolskaya.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). The Historical as Modern.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Presentation of the recording of the Mishpatim (Laws) composition cycle published by Neos Music.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Pre-concert discussion “What is your musical DNA?” with Katia Makdissi-Warren and Maxime McKinley, moderated by Quentin Lauvray.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Panel discussion “Gender, Inspiration and the Creative Process”.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). "The Historical as Modern".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). "Reflections on Composition Today".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). "De Natura et Origine: Spiritual Inspiration and Creative Process".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). "Challenges for the Arts".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Spinoza’s Ethics: Secular Religion Expressed in Historicized and Contemporary Sound.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Composing Ethica after Baruch Spinoza” .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Deus Sive Natura: Das theologische Weltbild von Spinoza in Musik ausgedrueckt.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Deus Sive Natura, Understanding Spinoza’s Ethics in terms of Jewish History.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). On the Historical Development and Practice of the Ta’amei Hamikra.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). On Transcription.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Existence and Distraction.
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Panel discussion about the Hungarian Film “Those Who Remained”(2019).
Vitenskapelig foredrag
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2024). The Letter Revealed: Gematria as a Creative Force.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Sounding Philosophy: Intuition: Part 1.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Translating Spirit into Sound: on the Methodology used in the Composition Cycle Ethica.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Musical Topics in the Twentieth and Twenty–First Centuries.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Memory Citation and Transformation in Recent Composition Cycles.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). “The Materials and Methods of Ethics” .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). “Sounding Philosophy: Multidisciplinary Education via Artistic Research".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). “Movements of History – Transpositions of Spirit” .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). “Environments of Philosophical Inquiry: Composing Spinoza’s Ethics” .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). "Sounding Philosophy" .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). "Composing Ethica: Creative Process and Computational Ethnomusicology".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Komposition als Archäologie.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Composition and Philosophy.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Composing Spinoza’s Ethics: Charting a Migration of Spirit Through Sound.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Composing Spinoza’s Ethics.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Religious Recitation as Oral Culture.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Melodic Stability and Memory Analysis in Semi-Oral Chant Traditions: A Computational Study of Qur’an Recitation and Torah Trope.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Musical Topics in Music of the 20th/21st Centuries.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Music Composition as Research of History and Memory.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Mishpatim (Laws) compositional cycle.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh: The Future of Historicized, Non-Representational New Music.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Mahler’s Modernities.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Current Compositional and Ethnomusicological Research.
Musikk - innspillingsprodukt
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). “Dániel Péter Biró: Mishpatim” presented by BR-KLASSIK – Geistliche Musik (German radio). .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Scholium Secundum, Recording of Concert.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Asher Hotseti Etkhem - Recording of Premiere.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Nulla Res Singularis, Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk, Jan. 8, 2018.
Annen presentasjon
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). The Mishpatim (Laws) composition Cycle (2003-2016) .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Ethica: Presentation at Norwegian Youth Chamber Music Festival.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). De Natura et Origine.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Portait Concert of the Works of Dániel Péter Biró.
Anmeldelse
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). African Rhythms by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, György Ligeti, Steve Reich, Simha Arom. Ethnomusicology. 162-165.
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). The String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Tradition and Legacy in Analytical Perspective. Oxford University Press.
Vitenskapelig monografi
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Live-Electronics in the SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Perspectives for Contemporary Music in the 21st Century.
Kompendium
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). A Computational Re–Examination Of Bela Bartok’s Transcription Methods as Exemplified by his Sirato Transcriptions of 1937/1938 and their Relevance for Contemporary Methods of Computational Transcription of Qur’an Recitation." • Holzapfel, A. (ed.). Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA2014). Istanbul : Bogazaci University, 2014, pp. 70-77. .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Stability and Variation in Cadence Formulas in Oral and Semi-Oral Chant Traditions – a Computational Approach.”.
Lydmateriale
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Mishpatim (Laws).
Kronikk
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Composing Spinoza's Ethics: Charting a Migration of Spirit Through Sound. zenodo.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). DIE ZUKUNFT DER ELEKTROAKUSTISCHEN MUSIK. SWR Experimentalstudio 21 22. 50-51.
Doktorgradsavhandling
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Reading the Song: On the Development of Musical Syntax, Notation and Compositional Autonomy: A Comparative Study of Hungarian Siratók, Hebrew Bible Cantillation and Plainchant from St. Gallen.
Intervju
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Canadian Excellence, Global Recognition: Canada’s 2017 Winners of Major International Research Awards, .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Festival Diktaturen: Dániel Péter Biró discussed his composition Nulla Res Singularis, based on text from Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics.
Dokumentar
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Dániel Péter Biró: Work-stay at SWR Experimentalstudio in December 2021.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Die Amerikatournee: Der Komponist Dániel Péter Biró, Film about work with Klangforum Heidelberg .
Programdeltagelse
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Musik der Gegenwart: Program on Radio Berlin Brandenburg about composition De Natura et Origine.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Verfolgt, vertrieben, verboten. Wenn Komponisten ins Kreuzfeuer politischer Ideologien geraten .
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Studies in Contrast: Notes from the Field. 10 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Ehiye asher Eyihe: the Future of Historicized, Nonrepresentational New Music . 26 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). The Sound of the Voice is the Name of the Place: On Compositional Allegory in Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called). 16 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Bartók's Quartets, Folk Music, and the Anxiety of Influence.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Reading the Song and Remembering the Word: Musical Material and ‘Historicized Composition’ in Ko Amar (Thus Said). 18 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). A Computational Investigation of Melodic Contour Stability in Jewish Torah Trope Performance Traditions. 6 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Variations on Variations. 15 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Musik und die Einwanderung der Sprache. 23 sider.
Musikalsk framføring
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Teshuvah: performance at Bodø BEAT.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Piutim (Hymns).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Cracks and Corrosion.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Asher Hotseti Etkhem (Who Brought You Out of the Land) Version II.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Udvarim Achadim (et les même mots).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Non dubitant mercatores, performance at the Kunst & Musikk Festival in Stavanger, Norway.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Gvul (Border): Concert at the Markuskirke in Bergen, Norway as part of the conference Remembering Lost Music- Jewish Cultural Heritage in Scandinavia.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Ethica composition cycle at the Musikakademie Basel.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Ethica, Concert at the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde Heidelberg.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Ethica composition cycle at the Johanneskirke in Bergen.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). De Natura et Origine: performance at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). De Natura et Origine, version II with electronics at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). De Natura et Origine, lecture-concert at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, Germany.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). De Natura et Origine at the Kunsttage Dornum.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). De Natura et Origine Version II at St. Andrea Kirche in Verden, German.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Conducting of Marcus Paus “Love’s Last Rites” (2021) .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Asher Hotseti Etkhem (Who Brought You Out of the Land) performed at the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Asher Hotseti Etkhem (Who Brought You Out of the Land) Version II with live-electronics at Ultima Festival in Oslo.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Asher Hotseti Etkhem - Lecture-Concert in Freiburg, Germany.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Asher Hotseti Etkhem - Performace at Akademie der Künste.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Asher Hotseti Etkhem.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Udvarim Achadim (et les même Mots) (Version 2020) for saxophone quartet and electronics.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Simanim (Signs/Traces): concert at Timespans Festival in August, 2019.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Kilkul (Breakdown): performance at Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montréal, QC, Canada.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Ethica: Performance with Bit20 at Grieghallen.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Scholium II, Festakt Concert at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Philosophy Association, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Scholium II, Concert at the Völkerkundemusem (Museum for Ethnography) in Heidelberg, Germany .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Scholium II, Concert at the Nikolausberger Musiktage in Göttingen, Germany.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Portrait concert of works by Dániel Péter Biró, Americas Society, New York, USA.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Lizkor Velishkoach (To Remember and to Forget), concert performed by the Lafayette String Quartet .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Gvul (Border) Version II, Concert at Ariowitsch-Haus, Zentrum Jüdischer Kultur.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Concert at Musikalischen Kultursalons at the Zentrum für Gegenwartsmusik at the Leipziger Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Concert at Congregation Emanuel, Victoria, BC.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Shevarim (Breakings) for piano solo, performed at Bargemusic, New York (2017).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Nulla res singulares.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Mishpatim (Laws) Part 1, performed at E-werk, Freiburg, Germany (2017).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Mishpatim (Laws) Part 1 Concert at ISCM World Music Days in Vancouver.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Mishpatim (Laws) Part 1.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Gvul (Border) performed at at the Site-Mémorial du Camp de Milles in Aix-en-Provence, France.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Fragmina ex axiomata .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called), performed at the Átlátszó Hang Festival in Budapest, Hungary (2017).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Mitoch He’anan (From the Midst of the Cloud) Version II, performed atLa Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montreal, Canada (2016).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Kivrot HaTa’avah (Graves of Craving) Version II, performed at the International Symposium of New Music in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil (2016).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Kivrot HaTa’avah (Graves of Craving) Version II, performed at the Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria (2016).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Kivrot HaTa’avah (Graves of Craving) Version II, performed at the Festival Átlátszó Hang in Budapest, Hungary (2016).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Bemitzraim (In Egypt), performed at Syker Vorwerk in Syke, Germany (2016).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called), premiered at the Osterfestival Imago Dei in Krems, Austria (2016).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Vayiru Et (And They Saw) – In Memoriam Matan Givol, performed at the Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques and Matrix 15 on Tour (2015).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Sefirot (Emanations), premiered at the University of Heidelberg (2015).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Sefirot (Emanations), performed at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen (2015).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Sefirot (Emanations), performed at the Technoseum in Mannheim, Germany (2015) .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Salvim (Quails), premiered at the festival VIRTUOSI XVIII in Recife, Brazil. (2015).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Mitoch He’anan (From the Midst of the Cloud), premiered at New Music Edmonton in Edmonton, Canada (2015).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Memory (Installation).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Kivrot Hata’avah (Graves of Craving) performed at the Gala of the Royal Society of Canada Annual General Meeting (2015).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Kivrot HaTa’avah (Graves of Craving) for solo bass flute, performed at the SALT New Music Festival and Symposium (2015).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Kilkul (Breakdown) for solo saxophon, performed at the SIMN 2014 / Matrix14 on Tour in Curitiba, Brazil (2014).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Bemitzraim (In Egypt), performed at the Foro Internacionel de Música Nueva Maunuel Enríquez in Mexico City (2014).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Bemitzraim (In Egypt), performed at the Berger Park Cultural Center in Chicago, USA (2014).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called), premiered as part of the Mediterranean Voices Project at the Eclat Festival (2014).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called), performed at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid (2014).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called) for seven voices.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Al Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called) Version II, premiered at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice (2014).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Vaya’al Moshe (And Moshe Ascended), performed at the Center for Contemporary and Electronic Music in Tel Aviv (2013).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Vaya’al Moshe (And Moshe Ascended) revised version, performed at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart (2013).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Livnat Hasapir (Sapphire Brickwork), performed at the University of Victoria, School of Music (2013).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Kivrot HaTa’avah (Graves of Craving), premiered at the 2013 World New Music Days in Vienna (2013).
Musikk - komposisjon
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Teshuvah (Return) .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Hadavar (The Word) Version III.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Scholium Secundum.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Ethica.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). De Natura et Origine - Version II with Live Electronics.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Asher Hotseti Etkhem (Who Brought You Out of the Land) Version II.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Vayomer (Version 2).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Tsofen (Cypher).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Sokharim for 5 Voices and % String Instruments.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Non dubitant mercatores.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). At in numeris simplicissimis.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Asher Hotseti Etkhem ("Who Brought You Out of the Land").
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Colinda.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Ethica (2017-2019).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Scholium 2.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Nulla Res Singularis.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Gvul (Border).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Ex Natura et Origine.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Shvarim (Breakings).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Mishpatim (Laws) Part 1: Lo Tisa (Do Not Accept).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Fragmina ex axiomata.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Sefirot (Emanationen).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Salvim (Quails).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Bahar (Auf dem Berg).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Kivrot Hata'avah (Gräber der Begierde).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Hadavar (Das Wort) (Version 2).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Gam Zera (Also the Seed).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Kilkul (Breakdown).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Bemizrajim (In Ägypten).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2002). Messages (Botschaften).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2000). Lizkor veLishkoah (To Remember and to Fortget).
Innledning i musikal og teaterprogram
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Die Zukunft der elektronischen Musik.
Fagartikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Warum komponiere ich (nicht) für die Kirche? Musik und Kirche. 192-192.
Faglig kapittel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Composing Gvul. 255-266. I:
    • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Narratives of Memory: Migration and Xenophobia in the European Union and Canada. University of Victoria Libaries.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Computer-supported analysis of religious chant. 230-252. I:
    • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Live Electronic Music. Routledge.
Intervju tidsskrift
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Enquête sur l'avenir de la musique contemporaine. Circuit _ Musiques Contemporaines. 101-104.

Se fullstendig oversikt over publikasjoner i CRIStin.

Dániel Péter Biró: Asher Hotseti Etkhem (Who Brought You Out of the Land) performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten on February 3, 2021 at the Eclat Festival as part of the Voice Affairs Project.

“The Practice of Teaching Composition” in Vortex Music Journal, Periódico Eletrônico, Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná | BrasilISSN 2317–9937,v. 8, n. 1, 2020.

Mishpatim (Laws), recording of three-hour composition cycle. Noa Frenkel, Ermis Theodorakis, Erich Wagner, Ensemble Surplus, Experimentalstudio, Neos Music 11919-20, October 2019.

Live-Electronics in the SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO, co-edited by Dániel Péter Biró, Jonathan Goldman, Detlef Heusinger and Constanze Stratz. Wolke Verlag, 2019.

Dániel Péter Biró: De Natura et Origine for mezzo-soprano, shawm and accordion. Premiered at the Ultraschall Festival Berlin on January 17, 2019 at Heimathafen Neukölln in Berlin, Germany. Commissioned by the Ultraschall Festival Berlin.

Dániel Péter Biró: Scholium Secundum for five singers and five string instuments. Edition Gravis, 2018.

Dániel Péter Biró: Nulla Res Singularis for five voices and five string instruments, premiered by the Schola Heidelberg and Ensemble Aisthesis, Walter Nußbaum, conductor at the Hebelhalle, Heidelberg, Germany on Oct. 29, 2017. Commissioned by the KlangForum Heidelberg. Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk on January, 5, 2018. Edition Gravis, 2018.

Dániel Péter Biró and George Tzanetakis, “Computer-Supported Analysis of Religious Chant” in Live-Electronic Music: Composition, Performance, Study, Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle, Laura Zattra eds. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017) pp. 231- 252.

“Emanations: Reflections of a Composer” in Schönheit (Konzepte 2), Gunnar Hindrichs, ed. (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2016) pp. 39-62.

The String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Tradition and Legacy in Analytical Perspective, co-edited by Dániel Péter Biró and Harald Krebs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

D.P. Biro, P. Van Kranenburg. “A Computational Re–Examination Of Bela Bartok’s Transcription Methods as Exemplified by his Sirato Transcriptions of 1937/1938 and their Relevance for Contemporary Methods of Computational Transcription of Qur’an Recitation,” in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, Holzapfel, A., ed. (Istanbul: Bogazaci University, 2014) pp. 70-77.

D.P. Biró, P. van Kranenburg, S.R. Ness, G. Tzanetakis, and A. Volk. “Stability and Variation in Cadence Formulas in Oral and Semi-Oral Chant Traditions – a Computational Approach,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. (Thessaloniki, 2012) pp. 98-105.

Sounding Philosophy
Project Funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program: 2021-2024
Dániel Péter Biró, Project Leader


The project Sounding Philosophy, funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (2021-2024), integrates music composition research with philosophical and scientific inquiry. The goal to understand how theories of reason and the mind can be approached from creative, metaphysical and scientific standpoints, and how these theories can be more holistically understood from various research perspectives. This project will build on research-creation initiated by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017-2018, and on presentations at the interdisciplinary annual conference of the Swiss Philosophical Society in September 2018 and in the context of the Grieg Academy Composition Research Group in 2018-2021.

The question of reason and the mind has been dealt with in the fields of art, philosophy and science and this has given way to contemporary theories of emergence, e.g. by the Nobel-Price Winner in Physics Robert Laughlin. Emergence can be described as the condition of an entity having properties distinct from the properties of the parts of the system from which it emerges, an important concept within the theoretical framework of complex systems. While philosophers have described thinking, doing and perception as different “states of mind,” scientists have not only concerned themselves with the question of how intelligence in the universe is possible, but also how intelligence plays a role in the evolution and emergence of nature. Philosophers, such as Spinoza and Kant, regarded both philosophy and art not merely as rational modes of explanation but also as expressions of spirit (spiritus) and intelligence (Geist) (Schwarzkopf 2016). While such questions of spirit relate to new developments in emergence theories in physics, psychology and philosophy, the current study looks to how such concepts of mind and emergence can be expressed via artistic creation. Dealing with questions of the mind and consciousness, involving a philosophical approach to music composition, the project will look into how concepts of intelligence and the mind can be translated into sonorous domains.

The project aims to allow these philosophical, scientific and artistic fields to inform each other. The project will involve an interdisciplinary research team combining artistic, philosophical and scientific disciplines. While the core of the research will be completed at the University of Bergen, team members will come from Norway, the EU, the U.S. and Canada. The research group will convene several times a year, having the goal of understanding how theories of reason and the mind can be approached from creative, metaphysical and scientific standpoints and how these topics can be understood from various research perspectives. The outcomes will consist of a series of musical works, recordings and scholarly publications, allowing for interdisciplinary knowledge mobilization between various forms of artistic creation, philosophical reflection and scientific discovery. The artistic works, conferences, webinars and publications will engage a public in a new manner, allowing audience members to explore connections between historical and contemporary concepts of the mind and consciousness.

The project Sounding Philosophy was initiated as an academic conference with a series of concerts and performances in November 2019 at the Grieg Academy – Department for Music, at the Grieghallen and at the Norwegian Youth Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger, Norway. Research group meetings, symposia, concerts, recordings, computational ethnomusicology fieldwork and publications are planned in Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and Canada for the research period 2021-2024.

Computational Ethnomusicology
International, Multidisciplinary Research Project
2007 - Present

The ongoing research project Computational Ethnomusicology started with a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant in 2007. Together with  my colleagues George Tzanetakis, Andrew Schloss and Steven Ness at the University of Victoria and Peter van Kranenburg and Anja Volk from Utrecht University, our main purpose was to create new computer based transcription tools to study world music and various types of world chant.  In particular, my goal was to study the melodic contours of Islamic, Jewish and Christian chant via computer. We were able to create an online browsing interface that allows researchers to organize and analyze chant in a variety of ways. In June 2008 I presented this new computational transcription tool at the Agora Conference at IRCAM during a poster presentation entitled “Decoding the Song: Histogram-Based Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Analysis of Melodic Formulae in Hungarian Laments, Torah Trope, Tenth Century Plainchant and Qur’an Recitation”. This work has been continued in a series of refereed publications including D.P. Biro, P. Van Kranenburg. “A Computational Re–Examination Of Bela Bartok’s Transcription Methods as Exemplified by his Sirato Transcriptions of 1937/1938 and their Relevance for Contemporary Methods of Computational Transcription of Qur’an Recitation” in Holzapfel, A. (ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA 2014) (Istanbul: Bogazaci University, 2014) 70-77 and D.P. Biró, P. van Kranenburg, S.R. Ness, G. Tzanetakis and A. Volk, “Stability and Variation in Cadence Formulas in Oral and Semi-Oral Chant Traditions – a Computational Approach” in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (Thessaloniki: Aristotle University, 2012) 98-105. This ethnomusicology research with technology has profoundly affected my work as a composer, as research into phonetics, tuning, syntax and phrase structure in chant traditions has become integrated into my own creative work.

Asher Hotseti Etkhem (Who Brought You Out of the Land)
for Five Voices (2020 - 2021)

Performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten on February 3, 2021 at the Eclat Festival as part of the Voice Affairs Project
Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Irtijal Festival Beirut, the Onassic Cultural Centre and the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival
Video

Nulla Res Singularis
for Five Voices and Five String Instruments (2017 - 2018)
Premiered by the Schola Heidelberg and Ensemble Aisthesis
Walter Nussbaum, conductor
Second version premiered at the Americas Society, New York, May 2018
Commissioned by the Klangforum Heidelberg
Score (excerpt)
Video

Mishpatim (Laws)
Six-Part Composition Cycle
for Voices, Ensemble, Resonant Instruments and Electronics (2003 - 2019)

Noa Frenkel, contralto, Ermis Theodorakis, piano, Olaf Tzschoppe, percussion
Christian Kemper, Cornelius Bauer, voices
Experimentalstudio: Reinhold Braig, Simon Spillner,
Dominik Pahnke, Sven Kestel, electronics
Ensemble Surplus, Erich Wagner, Conductor
NEOS Music 11919-20, October 2019
Duration: 2 hours, 24 minutes, 16 seconds
Audio (excerpts) 
Research Catalogue 

Fragmina Et Axiomata
for Countertenor, Shawm, Accordion and Electronics (2017)
Kai Wessel, Countertenor, Katharina Bäuml, Shawm, Margit Kern, Akkordeon
Dániel Péter Biró and Arsalan Abedian, electronics
Premiered at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany on Nov. 19, 2017
Commissioned by the Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik
Video (excerpt)

Al Ken Kara (That Is Why It Was Called)
for Seven Voices (2013 - 2014)
Performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten
Eclat Festival, Stuttgart Germany, February 2014
Part of the Mediterranean Voices Project with video artist Daniel Kötter and architect Sofia Dona
Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte
Score (excerpt)
Video

HaDavar (The Word)
Version II for Countertenor, Piano, Resonant Gongs and Electronics (2010 - 2011)
Kai Wessel, countertenor, Sven Thomas Kiebler, piano, Experimentalstudio, Dániel Péter Biró and Kirk McNally, electronics
Performed at the Fromm Concerts, Harvard University, April 2, 2011
Awarded the Gigahertz Production Prize for Electronic Music in 2010
Awarded the International Society for Contemporary Music Austrian Section New Vocal Works Competition Prize in 2011
Video (with score)

Sefirot (Emanations)
for Seven Voices and Twenty Instruments (2015)
Performed by the Schola Heidelberg and Ensemble Aisthesis, Walter Nußbaum, conductor
University of Heidelberg, October 16, 2015
Commissioned by the Klangforum Heidelberg
Score (excerpt)
Audio (mp3)

Kivrot Hata’avah (Graves of Craving)
for Bass Flute (2012 - 2013)
Sylvie Lacroix, Bass Flute
Selected as an independent submission to represent Canada and Hungary at the International Society of Contemporary Music 2013 World New Music Days
Premiered by Sylvie Lacroix on Novmeber 11, 2013 at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria as part of the festival Wien Modern
Video (with score)

Lizkor VeLishkoach (To Remember and to Forget) 
for String Quartet (1999 - 2000) 
Speculum Musicae – Curtis Macomber, violin, Carol Zeavin, violin, Lois Martin, viola and Eric Bartlett, cello
Recorded at Princeton University, May 8th, 2001
Score (excerpt)
Audio (mp3 – excerpt)

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