Tímea Urban Hvozdíková is a composer born in Košice, Slovakia in 1998.

She gained her education in composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Johannes Maria Staud. Her compositional practice includes instrumental and vocal pieces ranging from solo to larger ensemble and orchestral works, including electroacoustic pieces and music for performance.

Tímea is the winner of three brilliance grants from Central European Foundation for outstanding academic and professional achievements, as well as a recipient of multiple composition stipends from Slovak Arts Council. She was also one of the laureates of the GENERACE international composition competition two years in a row. 

 

Her music has been performed within festivals and events across Europe, such as ISCM World Music Days in Tallinn, Prague Spring, Aspekte Salzburg, Time of Music Viitasaari, Nouvelle Vague in Philharmonie de Paris, most notably by Klangforum Wien, NAMES Ensemble, Ensemble Linea, Cantando Admont, Ensemble Multilatérale, Les Métaboles and others.
 

Apart from her creative activities, Tímea also currently acts as a lecturer of contemporary esthetics, methodology and didactics of music theory and at the State conservatory in Bratislava.