Melody Eötvös Explained
| Birth Place: | Southern Highlands, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Composer |
| Instrument: | piano, cello |
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. 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.[2]
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.[3]
Her compositions have been performed by orchestras around the world, including cities London, Tasmania, and Philadelphia.[4] She is also a lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatory of Music.[5]
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)
- 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]
Notes and References
- Web site: Melody Eötvös . 2023-03-26 . Sydney Symphony Orchestra . en.
- Maurer . Simone . 2021 . Ruling the Hive: An Interview with Melody Eötvös . Context . en . University of Melbourne – Faculty of Music . núm. 47 . 65–69 . 2023-03-26.
- 3 March 2009 . APRA gives eight emerging songwriters $12k kick-start . ABC News . en.
- Web site: June 2020 . Melody Eötvös . 2023-03-26 . Australian Music Centre . en.
- Web site: Dr Melody Eotvos Lecturer In Music (Composition) Melbourne Conservatorium of Music . 2023-05-09 . The University of Melbourne.
- Web site: 2019 Art Music Awards – what the judges said : News (AMC) Article : Australian Music Centre . 2023-05-09 . www.australianmusiccentre.com.au.
- McPherson . Angus . April 2020 . For the Diary... Abc Classic . Limelight . 105.
- Web site: League of American Orchestras, American Composers Orchestra and EarShot Announce Commissions for Women Composers . 2023-06-26 . BroadwayWorld.com . en.
- Web site: Melody Eötvös – Composer . 2023-05-09 . melodyeotvos.com.
- Web site: Orchestra . Atlanta Symphony . Melody Eötvös Atlanta Symphony Orchestra . 2023-05-09 . www.aso.org . en.
- Web site: Eötvös . Melody . 2022 . Eötvös – List of Available Works (current to 2022) . Melody Eötvös.
