Dániel Péter Biró studied in the USA, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Israel before earning his PhD at Princeton University in 2004. His dissertation explores historical connections between orality, memory, and the development of notation in Hungarian laments, Jewish Torah recitation, and early Christian Gregorian chant. From 2004 to 2009, he was an Assistant Professor, and from 2009 to 2018, an Associate Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. In 2010, he received the Gigahertz Production Prize from ZKM (Centre for Art and Media). In 2011, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Utrecht, and from 2014 to 2015, he was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2015, he was elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2017, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 2018, he has been a Professor of Composition at the Grieg Academy of the University of Bergen in Norway

 

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