Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists
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In-person ticket collection is available two hours prior to the event (available seats: 300).
In-person ticket collection is available two hours prior to the event (available seats: 300).
- Violin
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Cello
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Anna Paliwoda
Violin
Anna Paliwoda was born in Katowice in Poland in 1992. She began her musical studies at the age of seven at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, continuing at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, also in Poland. Between 2013 and 2017, she studied violin under Professor Marco Rizzi and viola under professor Diemut Poppen at the Reina Sofía School of Music. She has attended masterclasses by Vadim Gluzman, Nils Mönkemeyer, Günter Pichler and Mauricio Fuks, and has won prizes for violin in various competitions: Bohdan Warchal International Strings Competition (Dolný Kubín, Slovakia), Sochaczew Violin Competition (Poland), and 2nd Tadeusz Wronski Young Violinists Competition (solo violin, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland). In 2012, she was also a finalist at the 9th Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition (Fermo, Italy). She has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez, Zubin Mehta, Pablo Heras-Casado and Stefan Lano; Freixenet Chamber Orchestra, conducted by András Schiff and Eldar Nebolsin; and Camerata Viesgo, conducted by Gordan Nikolic and Peter Eötvös. She has also been a member of the Cuarteto Mendelssohn and the Cuarteto Óscar Esplá de Asisa. In 2016, she completed a bachelor’s degree at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and in 2017 joined the first violins of the Basque National Orchestra in San Sebastián. She has participated regularly in the Festival Cantabile, presenting chamber music concerts beside soloists such as Diemut Poppen, Ivan Monigetti and Christel Lee. She has lived in Lisbon since 2018, is studying at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, under Professor Ana Beatriz Manzanilla, and is leader of the second violins of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. In 2019, she won the Concurso de Interpretação do Estoril.
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Francisco Lima Santos
Violin
Born in Lisbon, he began his musical studies at the age of nine at the Fundação Musical dos Amigos das Crianças, under Ana Margarida Sanmarful. He finished his degree in violin at Lisbon Conservatory, where he studied with Khachatour Amirkhanian. He continued his studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels, under Yuzuko Horigome, first prize winner in the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition. He finished his studies in 2016 at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, where he was a student of Ana Chumachenko and Zograb Tatevosyan. During his studies, he took masterclasses by Mauricio Fuks, Liviu Prunaru, Antje Weithaas, Veronika Hagen, Heime Muller, Pavel Gomziakov, Francesca Vicari and Krzysztof Wegrzyn. He was a member and scholarship holder of the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil, of which he was a soloist, having also performed solo in various concert halls throughout Portugal. He has been a member of Orquestra XXI since its beginning. He was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, with whom he played in various important European venues.
He has won prizes in the violin category in various competitions during his studies, such as the Fundão International Competition, the José Augusto Alegria Prize and the Young Musicians Prize. In 2016, he won the Vasco Barbosa Prize and in that same year he performed solo with the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra at São Carlos National Theatre. He is a member of the Artium trio, the ensemble that won the Young Musicians Prize in 2016, in the Chamber Music category.
He has played with a number of orchestras in Europe, including the Euskadi Symphony, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic. He has regularly performed in the Cantabile Festival in chamber music concerts alongside soloists such as Diemut Poppen, Ivan Monigetti, Christel Lee and Barnabas Kelemen. He has been 1st Auxiliary Soloist of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2017.
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Samuel Barsegian
Viola
A native of Armenia, Samuel Barsegian began studying violin at the age of six at the Tchaikovsky Special School of Music, but at the age of fifteen he decided to switch to the viola. He graduated in 1989 and then pursued his studies at Yerevan State Conservatory with Albert Brutian. Between 1989 and 1991, he was a soloist with the Armenian Radio Symphony Orchestra and received the Grand Prize at the Armenian National Competition. Between 1991 and 1995, he studied at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik, in Freiburg, Germany, with Kim Kashkashian. During this period, he played under the direction of conductors such as Georg Solti, Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov and Daniel Barenboim, and performed as a soloist with the Armenian Philharmonic at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School in the United States of America, and completed a postgraduate degree at the Hochschule Karlsruhe. Later, he developed his artistic career with Professor Rudolf Barshai.
Samuel Barsegian has participated in several workshops with conductors such as Bertrand de Billy, Simone Young, Gilbert Varga, David Zinman and Lawrence Foster. He is the founder and conductor of the Lisbon Chamber Orchestra and has directed several orchestras in Europe. In 2013 he first conducted the Gulbenkian Orchestra, in which he is 1st soloist of the violas.
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Raquel Reis
Cello
Raquel Reis studied cello with Isabel Boiça at the Conservatório de Música de Aveiro Calouste Gulbenkian and completed her degree at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, where her teacher was Paulo Gaio Lima. She received first prizes in the Caldas da Rainha Interpretation Competition, the Samuel and Elinor Thaviu Endowed Scholarship Competition in String Performance (Northwestern University) and the Winnetka Music Club Scholarship.
In 2007, she completed her Masters in String Performance at the Northwestern University School of Music in Chicago, with Hans Jensen. She was awarded scholarships by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Raquel Reis was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Spira Mirabilis Orchestra and has performed solo with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orquestra Académica Metropolitana and the Orquestra Clássica de Espinho. She is a member of the Trio Pessoa, with which she recorded the CD Pessoa, dedicated to Portuguese music. She also recorded the CD of Portuguese and Brazilian music, Mundo Grande. She has been a member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since September 2007.
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Martin Henneken
Cello
Martin Henneken received his first cello lessons at the age of six. He studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Germany) with Troels Svane. He later studied with Reinhard Latzko at the Vienna University of Music (Austria) where he completed his Master’s degree with distinction. Musicians such as cellist Lynn Harrell and violinist Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet) complemented his training. He has won awards several times at the German National Young Musicians Competition. He was a student of the Live Music Now Foundation created by Yehudi Menuhin.
During his studies, he played regularly with various orchestras, such as the Lübeck Philharmonic, the Volksoper Wien Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of India, Mumbai. In 2009 and 2010, he was a member of the Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna Philharmonic) with which he had the opportunity to participate in recordings, international tours and festivals (Salzburg, Lucerne, BBC Proms). Since 2010, he has been 2nd Cello Soloist of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Total approximate duration: 70 minutes without intermission
The Gulbenkian Orchestra consists of musicians of great technical and artistic quality. Throughout the season, they also perform in free chamber music concerts, thus emerging from the anonymity of their roles within the orchestra. While making themselves much more visible, they also make a considerable contribution to a greater appreciation of chamber music as a whole, from the standard repertoire to the premieres of new works.
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