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is a composer, music scholar, performer, and instructor. A prize-winning composer, Nagy is the recent recipient of the Seattle Symphony Composition Prize, the Iron Composer Prize, and the Swan Prize in Music Composition. His compositions and scholarship are inspired by the intersection of aesthetics and cognition on one end, and music perception and philosophy, on the other. Nagy is Assistant Professor of Music at Duquesne University School of Music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he is the organist at St. Joseph Cathedral in Wheeling, West Virginia. Nagy holds a doctor of music degree in composition from Northwestern University School of Music and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the Academy of Music-University of Zagreb and Texas Christian University, respectively. Nagy perform as a solo and collaborative organist and pianist.