Composer

Conductor

Professor

Composer, conductor and professor: the Hungarian Peter Eötvös
combines all three roles in a single extraordinarily high-profile career.
Born in 1944, he has long been considered one of the most significant
and influential personalities in the world of music both as an
internationally recognized conductor and a composer of highly acclaimed
operas, orchestral works and concertos written for well-known artists
from all over the world. As a professor, he founded his own institutes
for the future generation of young conductors and composers with
a focus on contemporary music.

News

2026

‘The last opera’ movie by András Kalmár is available online

‘The last opera’ movie by András Kalmár is available online

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New publication

Titled : Théâtre musical, théâtre instrumental dans l’œuvre de Péter Eötvös

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2024

International Opera Award for opera Valuska

Hungarian State Opera production

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2024

Artisjus Award for Valuska

The best classical music work of the year 2024

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2024

Peter Eötvös receives Lifetime Achievement Award

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Upcoming

compositions in concert

19 Apr, 2026
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Eötvös: Speaking Drums

Orchestra: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
Conductor: Thomas Guggeis
Soloist: Alexej Gerassimez, percussion
Alte Oper
20 Apr, 2026
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Eötvös: Speaking Drums

Orchestra: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
Conductor: Thomas Guggeis
Soloist: Alexej Gerassimez, percussion
Alte Oper
15 May, 2026
Turin, Italy
Eötvös: Siren's Song

Georg Friedrich Haas: I don't know how to cry (Italian Premiere)

Peter Eötvös: Siren's song

Carmine Emanuele Cella: When the moon of mourning is set (World Premiere)

 

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Conductor: Michele Gamba

Rai Auditorium “Arturo Toscanini”

 

 

 

18 May, 2026
Milano, Italy
Eötvös: Siren's Song

Georg Friedrich Haas: I don't know how to cry (Italian Premiere)

Peter Eötvös: Siren's song

Carmine Emanuele Cella: When the moon of mourning is set (World Premiere)

 

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Conductor: Michele Gamba

Teatro alla Scala

 

Upcoming masterclasses

9 May, 2026
Budapest, Hungary
Peter Eötvös Foundation masterclass for conductors and composers

4-9, May 2026
"Kurtág 100 | Thomas Adès masterclass"
Budapest Music Center

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New release

New opera

Foundation

Peter Eötvös Foundation

Founded in 1991, renewed in 2004 it undertakes the supporting and promoting of young composers’s and conductors’s career.