Gyula Csapó, Professor of Composition and Music Theory, stands outside the Education Building; "making students aware of their inner repertoires."

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 16 Oct. 1998 issue of OCN.

Bio/Historical Note: Gyula Csapó was born in 1955 in Pápa, Hungary. He earned a Liszt Academy diploma (Budapest), and went on to study at IRCAM in Paris and completed his Ph.D. with Morton Feldman in the United States (1989). He taught at SUNY-Buffalo, McGill and Princeton Universities. Csapó is Full Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Saskatchewan, and also holds a Habilitation Doctorate from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Csapó received the 2009 ARTISJUS Prize “Composition of the Year” for his Concerto for Viola and a Changing Environment (recorded on Hungaroton, 2010), numerous grants and commissions such as his 2011 Canada Council Grant for the string quartet Déjà? Kojâ? commissioned by the Quatuor Bozzini. Csapó’s music is performed worldwide, (at venues like The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, New York, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (with Continuum, Toronto, Canada), CBC Radio and the Montréal New Music Festival, Tessara Autumn Festival in Tokyo). The ARMEL Opera Festival and Competition made Csapó’s tetra-lingual opera Phèdre its entry work for international opera companies in 2014.