Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists
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- Flute
- Clarinet
- Bassoon
- Bassoon
- Trumpet
- Trumpet
- Trombone
- Bass trombone
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Sónia Pais
Flute
Sónia Oliveira Pais (b. 1998) is the Gulbenkian Orchestra’s co-principal flute soloist. She is also currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (HMTM) under Andrea Lieberknecht and is a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, a German youth orchestra.
She studied at the Mendelssohn-Orchesterakademie, the academy of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (2021/22), during which she recorded a CD for Deutsche Grammophon of Schubert’s Symphonies No. 8 and 9 under the direction of Herbert Blomstedt.
Throughout her career, she has played for orchestras such as the Gustav Mahler Academy (2019 and 2020) and the Orquesta Joven de la Sinfonica de Galicia (2016). She was invited to play with the Dresdner Philharmonie, Tchaikovsky International Orchester Ekaterinburg, Orquestra Clássica de Espinho and the Orchester der Russisch-Deutsche MusikAkademie – a project led by Valery Gergiev in collaboration with the Mariinsky Orchestra.
Of the Portuguese and international competitions she has taken part in, she won 1st Prize and the prize for “Excellence” – category A at the Gondomar International Music Competition and 3rd Prize at Finland’s Tampere Flute Fest – Piccolo Orchestral Competition.
She began studying music at the age of 7 at the Sociedade Filarmónica Fraternidade de São João de Areias in Santa Comba Dão in Portugal. Two years later, she entered the Conservatório de Música e Artes do Dão and later enrolled at the Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho under Paulo Barros. In 2017, she was admitted into the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, in the class of Benoît Fromanger, where she graduated with a first class degree. During this period, she received a scholarship for artistic merit from the Lucia-Loeser Stipendium.
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Telmo Costa
Clarinet
Telmo began his musical studies when he was 7 years old with José Américo Belinha in Tuna Musical de São Paio de Oleiros. Then, he started studying with Hélder Tavares in Academia de Música de Paços de Brandão, where he finished highschool with distinction. He attended several masterclasses with António Saiote, Nuno Pinto, Florent Héau, François Benda, Kilian Herold, Harri Mäki, among others.
He was awarded with many prizes in national and international competitions, such as 1st Prize in “Concurso Luso-espanhol” (Fafe), 1st Prize in International Clarinet Competition APC, Golden Prize in Vienna International Music Competition, 1st Prize in North International Music Competition and 1st Prize in “Prémio Jovens Músicos”. In this very competition, he was awarded with three more prizes, the Young Musician of the Year (“Maestro Silva Pereira Prize”), European Union of Music Competitions for Youth Prize, and “Prémio Círculo Richard Wagner”.
As far as his orchestral experience is concerned, he took part in Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (2013-2017), Estágio Gulbenkian para Orquestra (2017 and 2018), Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (2016 and 2018), Neue Philhamornie München (2018) and Schweizer Jugendsinfonieorchester (2018). He also collaborated with Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 2019 he won the academy position in Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and 1st Soloist co-principal in Orquestra Gulbenkian. He is currently studying in Hochschule für Musik Basel in Switzerland with François Benda.
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Ricardo Ramos
Bassoon
Ricardo Ramos began his musical training at the ARTAVE School in 1997. He continued his studies at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto, under Hugues Kesteman. He also studied at Musikhochschule Lübeck, in Germany, with Pierre Martens. He was a member of several youth and professional orchestras: Orquestra Portuguesa das Escolas de Música, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, European Youth Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Hansestadt Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, REMIX Orquestra, Orquestra das Beiras and Orquestra do Norte. He has played under the baton of such important masters as Herbert Blomstedt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kirill Petrenko, Michael Boder, Lawrence Foster, Michel Corboz, Ton Koopman and Bertrand de Billy, among others
As a soloist, he has played with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orquestra da Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo and the Norddeutsche Sinfonietta.
He won the Estoril Competition (2011) and the RDP Young Musicians Prize (2003 and 2008), the Helena Sá e Costa Competition (2005), the Possehl Wettbewerb Music Prize (2008) and the Porto Rotary Club Competition (2007). A prize from the Solti Foundation enabled him to participate in several events organised by the foundation in England.
Ricardo Ramos is a bassoon teacher on the Music Degree Programme at the Piaget Institute/ISEIT, in Almada. He has been leader of the bassoon section of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2009.
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Vera Dias
Bassoon
Vera Dias was born in Guimarães. She started at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave at the age of twelve, where she began her musical studies learning bassoon with Jesus Coelho. Later, she studied with Paulo Martins, with whom she finished the Wind Instrumentalists Course, winning the Dr Manuela Carvalho Prize. At the age of eighteen she was admitted to the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik - Karlsruhe, studying bassoon with Günter Pfitzenmaier. She graduated in 2008 from Escola Superior de Música.
She has played with the Orquestra Portuguesa das Escolas de Música, the Orquestra Aproarte, the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik - Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra, the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and has given concerts throughout Europe and the East.
In 2003 and 2004, she was selected to join the European Union Youth Orchestra summer school, which she attended only in 2004. In 2003 she declined that opportunity to be able to compete for the Young Musicians Prize, in which she received 1st Prize in the Bassoon category. In 2004, she won 2nd Prize in the Landespolizei competition, in Karlsruhe.
She had a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2003 to 2006. She has been 1st Assistant Soloist with the Gulbenkian Orchestra since September 2006.
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Carlos Leite
Trumpet
Carlos Leite was born in Cabeceiras de Basto. At the age of eleven he joined Vasco Faria's trumpet class at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave. He later studied with Eliseu Correia and completed his studies at Artave in 2011. He then enrolled in the Escola Superior de Música e Artes e do Espetáculo, in Kevin Wauldron's class. He was awarded the 1st Prize in several national competitions, including the Wind Instruments Competition "Terras de La Salette", the Póvoa de Varzim Trumpet Competition and the Luso-Galaico Albertino Lucas Competition. He also participated in the 26th edition of the Young Musicians Award, winning the 3rd Prize - Top Level. In the same year, he won the scholarship for the 38th Annual Conference of the International Trumpet Guild in Michigan, Chicago. In 2014 he was approved for the Erasmus program, at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, and entered Angel Serrano's trumpet class. Between 2014 and 2018, he was a full member of the European Union Youth Orchestra. He has attended master classes by Hakan Hardenberger, Michael Sachs, Mireia Farrés, Frits Damrow and Pierre Dutot, among others. In 2015 he finished his degree in Trumpet Music - with a perfect score of 20 out of 20 in Trumpet. He was a guest teacher at the 23rd and 24th Technical-Interpretative Improvement Courses of the Music Conservatory of Paredes, 2nd Junior BSP (Portuguese Symphonic Band) Festival. In 2017 he was awarded the 1st prize in the 26th Lions European Music Competition in Montreux, Switzerland. In 2017 and 2018, he taught trumpet at the Academia de Música Costa Cabral and Escola Superior de Música e Artes e do Espetáculo. In addition to the 1st reinforcement in the Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra, Carlos Leite collaborates with the Barcelona and National Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia and the Portuguese Symphonic Band. He recently won the Gulbenkian Orchestra's audition for Soloist A.
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José Pedro Pereira
Trumpet
José Pedro Pereira was born in 1998. He is trumpet B soloist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He initiated his piano and trumpet studies at the Conservatório de Música de Felgueiras, later continuing his training at the Academia José Atalaya in Fafe. In 2010, he enrolled at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave where he studied under Paulo Silva and graduated with top marks. In 2016, he was admitted into the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste – Zurich, where he studied under Frits Damrow and Laurent Tinguely and also, for Baroque trumpet, under Simon Lilly.
During his training, he took countless advanced courses with Pierre Dutot, Frits Damrow, Mark David, Pasi Pirinen, Philippe Litzler, Pacho Flores, Konradin Groth, Reinhold Friedrich, Jeroen Berwaerts, Philip Smith and Sergei Nakariakov, among others.
He has won awards in Portuguese and international competitions, including the Eric Aubier International Trumpet Competition (France), Internationaler Bodensee Musikwettbewerb (Germany), “Terras de La Salette” Wind Instruments International Competition, Póvoa de Varzim Trumpet Competition, Rubén Simeó International Trumpet Competition and the Albertino Lucas Luso-Galician Competition. In 2018, he won 1st Prize (advanced level) at the 32nd Young Musicians Awards.
He was a student musician at the Opernaus Zürich / Philharmonia Zürich (2019–2022), where he worked with innumerable internationally renowned conductors and singers. In the role of soloist, he has played for the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestre de l‘Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa.
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Sergi Miñana
Trombone
Sergi Miñana was born in Gandia, Spain. He began studying music at the age of nine, finishing his higher studies at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Castelló Salvador Seguí in 2010. In 2008, he worked with professors Ximo Vicedo, Ian Bousfield, Stefan Schulz, Ricardo Casero, Nury Guarnaschelli, Rudolf Korp, Otmar Gaiswinkler and Erik Hainzl at the Brass Academy Alicante.
He collaborated with the academy’s ensemble, performing nationally and abroad. In 2011, he was awarded the 3rd prize in the Villa de Castellnovo Young Performers Contest (A category). He received 2nd prize in the National Competition of Young Performers Ciutat de Xátiva (A modality) in 2012 and 2014.
From 2010 to 2018, he taught trombone in different Professional Music Conservatories in Valencia Province. He collaborated also with orchestras like Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra and Choir of the RTVE, Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, Orquesta de Cadaqués, Orchestra of the Valencian Community (Palau de les Arts), Malaga Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Valencia, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Castellón, National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia, Barcelona Filharmonia and Aragón Symphony Orchestra. He worked with conductors like Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Pablo Heras Casado, Daniele Gatti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jesús López Cobos, Gustavo Gimeno and Isaac Karabtchevsky. He was member of Quintet de Metalls Al Vent (2014-2018), performing in concerts throughout the Spanish territory.
He is 1st Trombone Soloist of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2018.
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Thierry Redondo
Trombone
Thierry Fradinho Redondo was born on 17 March 1994 in Paris. He began to study music at the age of 9 in the Banda Filarmónica Simão da Veiga at the Casa do Povo de Lavre under the teachers Rui Ferreira and Fernando Palacino. At 14, he studied with Reinaldo Guerreiro at the Escola Profissional Metropolitana. He completed his degree at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (ANSO), also under Reinaldo Guerreiro, and at 18 won second prize in the 2012 “Terras de La Sallete” International Competition in the senior category.
After finishing his undergraduate degree, he took a master’s in Performance under Thomas Leyendecker at the Hochschle für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig in Germany. In 2019, he won an audition to join the Staatskapelle Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) under the conductor Daniel Berenboim and musical direction of Jürgen Oswald and Filipe Alves. He is currently bass trombonist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra after successfully auditioning in 2022.
Fábio Cachão
Wind Octet
Bertold Hummel
Wind Octet, op. 47
Igor Stravinsky
Wind Octet, K041
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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