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[edit]

• 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[edit]

Solo[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]