Melody Eötvös | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 39–40) Southern Highlands, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Instrument(s) | piano, cello |
| Website | melodyeotvos |
Melody Eötvös (born 1984) is an Australian composer of classical music.[1]
Melody was born to a musical family. Her father was a jazz musician and her mother was a pianist. She began studying music theory and piano aged 5, before learning cello at age 8. She had also completed her first composition that year, a cello duet.[2] She obtained a degree in musical composition at the Queensland Conservatory under the tutelage of Gerardo Dirié.[1] She went on to receive a doctorate in music from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and a master's degree in music from the Royal Academy of Music in London.[3]
In 2009 she received her first major award, the APRA Professional Development Award in Classical Music Composition (APRA Music Awards), that included $16,000 in study and travel grants.[4]
Her compositions have been performed by orchestras around the world, including cities London, Tasmania, and Philadelphia.[5] She is also a lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatory of Music.[2]
Her work Ruler of the Hive was a finalist in the 2019 2019 APRA Music Awards.[6]
In April 2020 the Queensland Symphony Orchestra premiered a work commissioned from Eötvös.[7]
Awards
- APRA Professional Development Classical Award (2009)[4]
- 3MBS National Composers Award (2009)[8]
- Soundstream National Composer Award (2012)
- Gallipoli Songs composition competition (2014)
- Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra International Composition Competition (2016)
- Red Note Music Festival (2017)
Musical works
Solo
- Antumbra (2022)
- Piano sonata No.2 From the sand dunes (2021)
- Pilgrimado (2021)
- Gestumblindi (2020)
- The Waves (2017)
- Piano Sonata No.1 (2015)
- Dendrologe (2015)
- Beyond Lylth (2014)
- Ceptractli (2010)
- Six Minikins (2012)
Chamber
- Hope. Fear. Anything. (2022)
- Gamma (2022)
- About The Ash Lad (2020)
- The Baron in the Trees (2020)
- The Light Form (2019)
- Stree of the Four WInds (2019)
- October in The Chair (2017)
- The Three Alcids (2016)
- Tradigradus (2017)
- Sericulture (2016)
- A Stranger Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (2016)
- After the Zooids (2016)
- Wild October Jones (2015)
- Olbers Dance in the Dark (Rev. 2015)
- House of the beehives (2015)
- Wakeford Songs I: By Train (2015)
- The Aquatic Guide to Swimming (2015)
- Leafcutter (2012)
- The King in Yellow (2012)
- How Dragonflies Cross The Ocean (2012)
Orchestral
- PYRAMIDION (2022)
- SONARMILO (2022)
- When it hits the ocean below (2022)
- HIC SVNT DRACONES (2022)
- Meraki (2020)
- The Deciding machine (2020)
- Gravity Hill (2020)
- Hidden Wiring (2020)
- How To Grow Your Own Glacier (2020)
- Solar Wolves (2019)
- Ruler of The Hive (2018)
- Nanbunums Water (2017)
- The Saqqara Bird (2016)
- Red Dirt|Silver Rain (2015)
- Beatles, Dragons and Dreamers (2013)
- Huygens Principle (2009)
- Attic Tragedy (2008)
- Two Brave Apples in Winter (2007)
Vocal
- Hope. Fear. Anything. (2022)
- MEditations (On Being) (2020)
- Pilgrimado (2021)
- Gestumblindi (2020)
- A Stranger Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (2016)
- Wakeford Song I: By Train (2014)
- The Intoxicated Poet (2009)
Multimedia
- After The Zooids (2015)
- House of The Beehives (2015)
- Patosis II:Sow (2012)
- Shoulder Pieces (2012)
- A Sample of The Atmosphere (2011)
- Patosis I: Blue (2010)
- Die Hohle Hohle (2009)[9][10][11]
References
- ^ a b "Melody Eötvös". Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Dr Melody Eotvos Lecturer In Music (Composition) Melbourne Conservatorium of Music". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ Maurer, Simone (2021). "Ruling the Hive: An Interview with Melody Eötvös". Context (núm. 47). University of Melbourne – Faculty of Music: 65–69. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ a b "APRA gives eight emerging songwriters $12k kick-start". ABC News. 3 March 2009.
- ^ "Melody Eötvös". Australian Music Centre. June 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "2019 Art Music Awards – what the judges said : News (AMC) Article : Australian Music Centre". www.australianmusiccentre.com.au. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ McPherson, Angus (April 2020). "For the Diary... Abc Classic". Limelight: 105.
- ^ "League of American Orchestras, American Composers Orchestra and EarShot Announce Commissions for Women Composers". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ "Melody Eötvös – Composer". melodyeotvos.com. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony. "Melody Eötvös | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra". www.aso.org. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ Eötvös, Melody (2022). "Eötvös – List of Available Works (current to 2022)" (PDF). Melody Eötvös.
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