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 ensembles and festivals worldwide; and as composer/conductor he has led projects focusing on his work in centres such as Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, and New York. His most recent operas, Le Balcon, Angels in America, and Lady Sarashina 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, including Love and Other Demons for Glyndebourne Festival in 2008.
Peter Eötvös is regularly re-invited as guest conductor by Philharmonic orchestras including Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and London. Since 1980, he has regularly appeared in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta; and in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Ensemble intercontemporain. He will begin as Principal Guest Conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the 2009/10 season.
Equally important to Peter Eötvös are his teaching activities - especially his work at his own International Eötvös Institute and Foundation for young conductors and composers in Budapest.
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