Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

American composer, author, and technologist born on 14 March 1949 in Plainfield, New Jersey, and based in Northfield, Vermont, he has created more than a thousand works spanning orchestras, electronics, opera, installation, and interactive media. He was a first-generation personal computer author from 1979 to 1985 and an early interviewer of Bill Gates. He co-founded and co-hosted Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar, an ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award-winning radio programme that ran 537 shows from 1995 to 2005. His opera Erzsébet premiered in 2011 and he completed the We Are All Mozart project composing 100 commissioned works in 2007.