Melody Eötvös
Melody Eötvös (born 1984) is an Australian composer of classical music.
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. 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.
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.
Her compositions have been performed by orchestras around the world, including cities London, Tasmania, and Philadelphia. She is also a lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatory of Music.
Her work Ruler of the Hive was a finalist in the 2019 2019 APRA Music Awards.
In April 2020 the Queensland Symphony Orchestra premiered a work commissioned from Eötvös.
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