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

2023

Eötvös: Golden Dragon – Austrian Premiere

Further performances in Vienna:
16, 18, 20, 25, 27 February; 1, 3 March 2023

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2023

Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart – US premiere

Composer Peter Eötvös created his Dialog mit Mozart in 2014; throughout the piece, he engages in a dialectic exploration of tunes by his renowned predecessor.

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2023

Eötvös: Golden Dragon – Halle Premiere

21st January 2023 –
Further performances: 28th January, 25th February, 24th March, 2nd April, 22nd April 2023

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2022

Peter Eötvös steps in for Barenboim at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal

On 8 November, Peter Eötvös steps in at short notice for Daniel Baremboim to conduct Boulez Ensemble

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2022

Eötvös: Sleepless – World premiere of the year

Sleepless has been chosen by Opernwelt as the world premiere of the year.

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Upcoming

compositions in concert

1 Apr, 2023
Hagen, Germany
Eötvös: Three sisters

Conductor: Joseph Trafton

Stage director: Friederike Blum

Set designer: Tassilo Tesche

Costume designer: Tassilo Tesche

Dramaturge: Rebecca Graitl, Francis Hüsers

 

 

Irina: Dorothea Brandt

Mascha: Maria Markina

Olga: Lucie Ceralová

Natascha: Vera Ivanović

Doctor: Anton Kuzenok

Rodé: Ilja Aksionov

Andrei: Kenneth Mattice

Vershinin: Insu Hwang

Tusenbach: Dmitri Vargin

Kulygin: Dong- Won Seo

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen

Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln

 

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2 Apr, 2023
Halle, Germany
Eötvös: Golden Dragon

Conductor: José Miguel Esandi
Scene: Katharina Kastening
Set: Jon Bausor
Video: Tal Rosner
Dramaturge: Carlo Mertens

The young woman / The little one : Vanessa Waldhart
The woman over sixty: (Alte Köchin, Enkeltochter, Ameise, Hans, Chinesische Mutter): Yulia Sokolik
The young man (Junger Asiate, Kellnerin, Großvater, Chinesische Grille, Chinesische Tante): Robert Sellier
The man over sixty (Alter Asiate, Eva, Freund der Enkeltochter, Chinesischer Vater): Chulhyun Kim
The man: (Ein Asiate, Inga, Chinesischer Onkel): Andreas Beinhauer

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9 Apr, 2023
Hagen, Germany
Eötvös: Three sisters

Conductor: Joseph Trafton

Stage director: Friederike Blum

Set designer: Tassilo Tesche

Costume designer: Tassilo Tesche

Dramaturge: Rebecca Graitl, Francis Hüsers

 

 

Irina: Dorothea Brandt

Mascha: Maria Markina

Olga: Lucie Ceralová

Natascha: Vera Ivanović

Doctor: Anton Kuzenok

Rodé: Ilja Aksionov

Andrei: Kenneth Mattice

Vershinin: Insu Hwang

Tusenbach: Dmitri Vargin

Kulygin: Dong- Won Seo

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen

Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln

 

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14 Apr, 2023
Stavanger, Norway
Eötvös: Cziffra Psodia

Orchestra Festival
János Balázs, piano
Conductor: Peter Eötvös

14 Apr, 2023
Torino, Italy
Eötvös: Reading Malevich

Conductor: Robert Trevino
Torino RAI Orchestra
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Upcoming

concerts & masterclasses

6 Apr, 2023
Budapest, Hungary
Klangforum Ensemble

Ligeti: Kammerkonzert,
Cello Konzert (László Fenyő)
Violin Konzert (Barnabás Kelemen)
Klavier Konzert (Zoltán Fejérvári)

Conductor: Peter Eötvös
MÜPA

6 Apr, 2023
Budapest, Hungary
Klangforum Ensemble

Ligeti: Kammerkonzert
Ligeti: Violin concerto
Ligeti: Piano concert
Ligeti: Cello concerto
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
MÜPA production
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14 Apr, 2023
Stavanger, Norway
Stavanger Symfonikor

Eötvös: Cziffra Psodia
János Balázs, piano
Conductor: Peter Eötvös

14 Apr, 2023
Stavanger, Norway
Orchestra - Festival

 

Mussorgsky: Night ..... Mountain

Eötvös: Cziffra Psodia (János Balázs)

Bartók: Miracoulos Mandarin (complete)

Conductor: Peter Eötvös

 

20 Apr, 2023
Stavanger, Norway
Stavanger Symfonikor

Eötvös: Sirens' Song, Alhambra
Kristóf Baráti, violin
Debussy: Nocturnes, Iberia
Cond.: Peter Eötvös
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New release

Foundation

Peter Eötvös Foundation

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