Orquestra Juvenil Geração
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation- Conductor
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Orquestra Juvenil Geração
Launched 17 years ago, Orquestra Geração is a project focusing on social intervention through music, active in five municipalities in the Lisbon metropolitan area, and in Coimbra, Tondela and Castanheira de Pêra. Orquestra Geração brings music education and orchestra practice to schools, combining aesthetic and cultural training with a powerful tool for promoting school success, territorial cohesion and new life opportunities, embracing cultural and human diversity in all its forms.
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Joana Carneiro
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Acclaimed Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Real Filharmonia de Galicia and Artistic Director of the Gulbenkian Youth Orchestra, a post she has held since 2013. Previously, she was Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa at Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon from 2014–2022 and Music Director of Berkeley Symphony from 2009–2018.
Carneiro is in high demand across the globe, particularly for her focus on contemporary music both in the concert hall and on the opera stage. Recent highlights include engagements with prominent orchestras around the world including the BBC Symphony and Philharmonia in London, BBC Scottish and Scottish Chamber, National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), and Royal Stockholm, Gothenburg, Gavle Symphony, Helsinki and Brussels Philharmonic, Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra, and La Venice in Europe. Further afield, Carneiro has collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the United States, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Beijing Orchestra in China, and Sao Paulo State Symphony in South America.
2023/24 season highlights include debuts with the Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine in France, Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland, Royal Scottish National and BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the United Kingdom and Bremen Philharmonic in Germany. Joana also returns to Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. A native of Lisbon, she began her musical studies as a violist before receiving her conducting degree from the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon, where she studied with Jean-Marc Burfin. She then traveled to the United States where she received her masters degree in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University with Victor Yampolsky and Mallory Thompson and pursued doctoral studies at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler.
Carneiro is the 2010 recipient of the Helen M. Thompson Award, conferred by the League of American Orchestras to recognize and honor music directors of exceptional promise. In 2004, Carneiro was decorated by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Mr. Jorge Sampaio, with the Commendation of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique
Alberto Ginastera
Anne Victorino de Almeida in collaboration with Edison Otero
Mário Laginha in collaboration with Edvânia Moreno
Joly Braga Santos
Gioachino Rossini
Arturo Marquez
Richard Wagner
Joly Braga Santos
The concert marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Portuguese composer Joly Braga Santos and celebrates cultural diversity with the repertoire composed under B-Me (Blending melodies: bridging cultural identities), a European co-creation and cultural exchange project that brings together the Portugal, Cyprus and Greece Youth Symphony Orchestra systems.
With more than 100 young people from all the Orquestra Geração centres in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Almada, Amadora, Lisbon, Loures, Oeiras, Sesimbra and Vila Franca de Xira), this concert will also feature nine young people from the Cyprus System who took part in the Orquestra Geração summer internship.
The concert will be conducted by Joana Carneiro. Proceeds from ticket sales will go to Orquestra Geração.
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