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In the frame of Budapest Autumn Festival
Péter Eötvös > Cadences from Shadows [2008]
Péter Eötvös > Natasha [2006]
Péter Eötvös > Jetzt, Miss!
Péter Eötvös > Octet Plus [2008]
Péter Eötvös > Sonate per sei [2006]
Conductor: > Jean-Philippe Wurtz
Participate: > Alison Bell [singing] | Ensemble Linea
Peter Eötvös is one of the best known interpreters of 20th century music. He was born in 1944 in Transsylvania, received diplomas from Budapest Academy of Music (composition) and Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (conducting). Between 1968 and 1976 he played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble. From 1971 to 1979 he collaborated with the electronic music studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne.
In 1978, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he conducted the inaugural concert of IRCAM in Paris, and was subsequently named musical director of the Ensemble InterContemporain, a post he held until 1991. Since his Proms debut in 1980 he has made regular appearances in London. During 1985-1988 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He was appointed First Guest Conductor at the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 1992-1995, Chief Conductor of the Radio Chamber Orchestra of Hilversum from 1994 and First Guest Conductor at National Philharmonic Orchestra (Budapest) from 1998. Other orchestras he has worked with include the most important Radio Orchestras in Europe, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonia, Orchestre de Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonic and New Japan Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked in opera houses including La Scala, Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and La Monnaie, Brussels, with directors including Luca Ronconi, Robert Altman, Klaus-Michael Grüber, Robert Wilson.
In 1991 he founded the International Eötvös Institute and Foundation for young conductors and composers. During 1992-98 he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, and since 1998 he has been professor at Cologne´s Hochschule für Musik.
He was awarded the Officier de l´Ordre des l´Arts et des Lettres by the French Cultural Minister in 1988, the Bartók Prize in Hungary in 1997 and the Christoph und Stephan Kaske Prize in Germany in 2000. In May 2001 he was awarded in Budapest with the newly founded Gundel-Prize for his theatre work As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. He is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Szechenyi Academy of Art in Bu-dapest and Sächsische Akademie der Künste in Dresden.
His many compositions are regularly performed throughout the world, and include Chi-nese Opera, Psychokosmos, Atlantis, Shadows, Two Monologues, Replica, zeroPoints and the opera Three Sisters. Three Sisters was awarded France´s Prix Claude-Rostand, Grand Prix de la Critique (1997/98) and Victoires de la Musique Classique et du Jazz (1999) and its CD won Grand Prix of Academie Charles Cros (1999), Diapason d´or de l´année 2000" in France, ECHO Preis 2000" in Germany and "Prix Caecilia" in Belgium (2000). In 2001 he won the Hungarian Classical Award of the Hungarian magazine Gramofon.
His works have been recorded by BIS AG, BMC, DGG, ECM, ERATO, Hungaroton and his music is published by Editio Musica (Budapest), Ricordi (Munich), Salabert (Paris), Schott Music (Mainz).
Composer, conductor and teacher: the Hungarian Peter Eötvös combines all three functions in one very high-profile career.
His music features regularly in the programmes of orchestras, contemporary music en-sembles and festivals worldwide; and as composer/conductor he has led projects focusing on his work in centres such as Paris, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna. His most recent operas, Love and Other Demons and Angels in America, are following the lead of his Three Sisters by generating an ever-increasing number of new productions; and several major music theatre commissions are due in the next few years.
In addition to his roles listed above, Peter Eötvös is regularly re-invited as guest con-ductor by orchestras including Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; BBC Symphony; Wiener Philharmoniker, Cleveland Orchestra, NHK Orchestra Tokyo, Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble Modern.
From 2009 he is First Guest Conductor at Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna.
Equally important to Peter Eötvös are his teaching activities - especially his work at his own Contemporary Music Foundation for young conductors and composers in Budap-est. Amonst the many honours he has been awarded are the Kossuth Prize, by the President of the Hungarian Republic in 2002; and the ’Commandeur de l`Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in 2003 by the French minister of education and cultural affairs.
Awards, prizes
European prize: "Pro Europa" prize in 2004 (Europäischer Preis für Komposition)
In Hungary: "Bartók-Pásztory prize" in 1997, "Kossuth Prize" in 2002, "Gundel arts award" in 2001, "Freeman of Budapest" in 2003, "Im memoriam Béla Bartók" prize and "Hungarian Arts Prize" in 2006
In France: "Officier de l'Ordre des l'Arts et des Lettres" in 1988, Prize SACD Palmarès in cathegory "Prix Musique" in 2002, "Commandeur l´Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in 2003, Cannes Classical Award for "Living Composer" in 2004, Grand Prix de la PMI - Prix Antoine Livio 2006 (Association Presse Musicale Internationale)
In Germany: "Frankfurter Musikpreis" in 2007, "Christoph und Stephan Kaske Preis" in 2000
In UK: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award in 2002
Composition prizes
His opera "Three sisters" was awarded France's Prix Claude-Rostand, Grand Prix de la Critique (1998) and Victoires de la Musique Classique and du Jazz (1999) and its CD won Grand Prix of Academie Charles Cros (1999), Diapason d'or de l'année 2000, ECHO Preis 2000 in Germany and Prix Caecilia in Belgium (2000).
In 2003 the film of his opera" Le Balcon" won the Grand Prix Golden Prague. His CD Bartók Bluebeard´s Castle was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004.
His violin concerto " SEVEN" was awarded "Prix de Composition Musicale" at Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in 2008.
Links between Ensemble Linea and composer Peter Eötvös are strong and ancient.
Linea's artistic director Jean-Philippe Wurtz was studying with the Hungarian composers and Linea is regularly playing his work, as the ensemble did at Musica Festival.
