Composer

Short composer biography

Peter Eötvös is a highly influential figure of the Hungarian and international contemporary music scene. He started composing music as early as the age of 5. He grew up in Budapest and learned composition in the School of Exceptional Young Talents at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, after he continued his studies in Cologne, Germany, where he studied composition under the tutelage of B. A. Zimmermann and had the opportunity to work with Karlheinz Stockhausen. His international career has taken him to many countries of the world, from Japan to Germany, France, the Netherlands and to New York. As the musical director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain for over a decade, he had the chance to personally collaborate with the most significant living composers of the time. His twelve operas, instrumental solo concertos, larger- and smaller scale symphonic compositions and chamber music pieces are regularly staged in the world’s greatest concert halls, festivals and opera houses.

In recent years, he has been commissioned to write orchestral pieces for the Concertgebouw, the Elbphilharmonie, the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Seoul and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and many others. His social and political sensitivity has inspired him to pen several of his pieces, for instance, Alle vittime senza nome, Oratorium balbulum, The Golden Dragon or Angels in America.

His operas were commissioned by the most prestigious houses, such as the Opera de Lyon, Chatelet Paris, Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Frankfurt, New York Philharmony Orchestra.  Not only the topics of his operas reflect on today’s world, but he also often uses contemporary source texts as librettos. Currently, he is working on two operas commissioned by the Berlin State Opera and the Hungarian State Opera House.

Compositions

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Compositions in Concert

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Peter Eötvös:
Senza Sangue
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
BMC CD  278
Viktória Vizin, Jordan Shanahan
Conducted by Peter Eötvös

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