Melody Eötvös

Melody Eötvös (born 1984) is an Australian composer of classical music.[1]

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.[2] She obtained a degree in musical composition at the Queensland Conservatory under the tutelage of Gerardo Dirié.[1] 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.[3]

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.[4]

Her compositions have been performed by orchestras around the world, including cities London, Tasmania, and Philadelphia.[5] She is also a lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatory of Music.[2]

Her work Ruler of the Hive was a finalist in the 2019 2019 APRA Music Awards.[6]

In April 2020 the Queensland Symphony Orchestra premiered a work commissioned from Eötvös.[7]