Melody Eötvös

Melody Eötvös
Born1984 (age 39–40)
Southern Highlands, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationComposer
Instrument(s)piano, cello
Websitemelodyeotvos.com

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

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  • 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

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Solo

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "Melody Eötvös". Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Dr Melody Eotvos Lecturer In Music (Composition) Melbourne Conservatorium of Music". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b "APRA gives eight emerging songwriters $12k kick-start". ABC News. 3 March 2009.
  5. ^ "Melody Eötvös". Australian Music Centre. June 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  6. ^ "2019 Art Music Awards – what the judges said : News (AMC) Article : Australian Music Centre". www.australianmusiccentre.com.au. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  7. ^ McPherson, Angus (April 2020). "For the Diary... Abc Classic". Limelight: 105.
  8. ^ "League of American Orchestras, American Composers Orchestra and EarShot Announce Commissions for Women Composers". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  9. ^ "Melody Eötvös – Composer". melodyeotvos.com. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  10. ^ Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony. "Melody Eötvös | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra". www.aso.org. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  11. ^ Eötvös, Melody (2022). "Eötvös – List of Available Works (current to 2022)" (PDF). Melody Eötvös.
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