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

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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2024

Valuska made available online

Valuska is available online until mid-July 2024. 

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2023

Ligetidyll – German premiere

Musik der Zeit – Focus: Peter Eötvös
with WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne

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Upcoming

compositions in concert

2 Mar, 2025
Hamburg, Germany
Eötvös: Speaking Drums

Conductor: Thomas Guggeis
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal
3 Mar, 2025
Hamburg, Germany
Eötvös: Speaking Drums

Conductor: Thomas Guggeis
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal
20 Mar, 2025
Edinburgh, UK
Eötvös: Aurora

Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Edinburgh Queens Hall
21 Mar, 2025
Glasgow, UK
Eötvös: Aurora

Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Glasgow City Halls

Upcoming masterclasses

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.