Around Beethoven
Sunday Concerts
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Date
- 11:00 / Cancelled 11:00 / Sold out Sunday, 11:00
- 15:00 / Cancelled 15:00 / Sold out Sunday, 15:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
- 6,00 € – 12,00 €
Single tickets
Online priority booking (Cartão Gulbenkian Mais): 29 Jun, 10:00
Online booking: 30 Jun, 10:00
10% – Cartão Gulbenkian
- Agata Zajac Conductor
- Violin
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Gulbenkian Orchestra
In 1962, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation decided to establish a permanent orchestral ensemble. Originally with only twelve musicians (strings and continuo) it was named “Orquestra de Câmara Gulbenkian”. This collective was successively enlarged and today the “Orquestra Gulbenkian” (the name it has adopted since 1971) has a permanent body of sixty instrumentalists, a number that can be expanded depending on the repertoire.
This structure allows the Gulbenkian Orchestra to interpret works from the Baroque and Classical periods, a significant part of 19th century orchestral literature and much of the music of the 20th century, including works belonging to the current repertoire of the traditional symphonic orchestras. In each season, the orchestra performs on a regular series of concerts at the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium in Lisbon, where it has had the opportunity of working together with some of leading names of the world of music (conductors and soloists). It has also performed on numerous locations all over Portugal, in an effort to decentralize music and culture.
The orchestra has been constantly expanding its activities in the international level, performing in Europe, Asia Africa, and the Americas. In the recording field, Orquestra Gulbenkian is associated to labels as Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Teldec, Erato, Adès, Nimbus, Lyrinx, Naïve and Pentatone, among others, and this activity was recognized with several international prizes.
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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.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maria Theresia von Paradis
Joseph Haydn
Ludwig van Beethoven
In this concert by the Gulbenkian Orchestra, audiences will hear major works by fundamental composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Maria Theresia von Paradis, chosen as a gateway into the inexhaustible and fascinating world of orchestral music. This journey through exceptional works will be conducted by Agata Zajac and will feature the participation of violinist Anna Paliwoda.
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