Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2
Gulbenkian Orchestra
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Date
- 20:00 / Cancelled 20:00 / Sold out Thursday, 20:00
- 19:00 / Cancelled 19:00 / Sold out Friday, 19:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThis concert will be broadcast live here on 22 May, at 19:00 (GMT).
Pricing
25% – Under 30
10% – Over 65
Cartão Gulbenkian:
50% – Under 30
20% – Over 65
10% – 30 to 65
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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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Nuno Coelho
Conductor
Nuno has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Spain’s Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias since October 2022. In addition to concerts in Oviedo, the 2024/25 season sees him return to Antwerp Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, and debut with Stavanger Symphony, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg and Minnesota Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons have included concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Frankfurt’s hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orquestra Sinfônica de São Paulo, Orquesta Nacional de España, Dresden Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Residentie Orkest, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, and Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona.
In the opera pit, Nuno has conducted productions of La traviata, Cavalleria rusticana, Rusalka and Manon. In November 2022 he conducted his own staging of José Saramago’s reimagining of Don Giovanni at the Gulbenkian, having previously conducted their semi-staging of Così fan tutte the previous season. 2026 will see Nuno return to Ópera de Oviedo for Manon Lescaut.
Nuno won First Prize at the 2017 Cadaqués International Conducting Competition and has since gone on to conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Symphoniker Hamburg, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Noord Nederlands Orkest and Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino. He was a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Fellow between 2018-19 and stepped in for Bernard Haitink that same season to make his debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
Born in Porto, Nuno studied conducting at the Zürich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli and won the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. In 2015 he was admitted into the German Music Council’s Dirigentenforum and for the following two years he was both a Tanglewood Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic.
Literature and tennis occupy his time off-podium.
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Ingrid Fliter
Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter has won the admiration and hearts of audiences around the world for her passionate yet sensitive music making and effortless technique. Winner of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, and the only woman to have ever received this honour, Ms. Fliter divides her time between North America and Europe.
Highlights of Ms Fliter’s 2025/26 season include orchestral appearances with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Oregon Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, and recitals at the Mänttä Music Festival in Finland, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Poland, and the London Piano Festival at King’s Place. Recent orchestral engagements include appearances with the Auckland Philharmonia, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Sydney, Singapore, Vancouver, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras.
Ingrid Fliter made her American orchestral debut with the Atlanta Symphony just days after the announcement of her Gilmore award. Since then, she has appeared with most of the major North American orchestras including the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, the Boston, San Francisco, St. Louis, Toronto, Detroit, National, Dallas, Houston, Cincinnati, New World, San Diego and New Jersey symphonies among others, as well as at the Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Grant Park, Aspen, Ravinia, Blossom, Tippet Rise and Brevard summer festivals. Equally busy as a recitalist, Ms. Fliter has performed in New York at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the Metropolitan Museum and the 92nd Street Y, at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, and in Boston, San Francisco, Vancouver and Detroit, as well as for the Van Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth. In Europe, Ms. Fliter has performed in recital in Amsterdam, London at both Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Prague, Salzburg, Cologne and Stockholm, and participated in festivals such as La Roque D’Antheron, Prague Autumn and the BBC Proms.
A Linn recording artist, Ms. Fliter’s most recent recording is the first of two discs of Chopin Mazurkas. Ms. Fliter has recorded both Chopin concertos and the Mendelssohn and Schumann concertos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Jun Märkl as well as the complete Chopin Preludes and Chopin Nocturnes for the same label. Her two all-Chopin recordings for EMI earned her the reputation as one of the pre-eminent interpreters of that composer while her most recent EMI recording is an all-Beethoven CD featuring the Pathetique and Appassionata sonatas. Live recordings of Ms. Fliter performing works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam are available on the VAI Audio label.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Ingrid Fliter began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. In 1992 she moved to Europe where she continued her studies in Freiburg with Vitaly Margulis, in Rome with Carlos Bruno, and with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky at the Academy “Incontrui col Maestro” in Imola, Italy, where she has been teaching since 2015. Ms. Fliter began playing public recitals at the age of eleven and made her professional orchestra debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires at the age of 16. Already the winner of several competitions in Argentina, she went on to win prizes at the Cantu International Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy and in 2000 was awarded the silver medal at the Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Grażyna Bacewicz
Fryderyk Chopin
Witold Lutosławski
Ingrid Fliter gained international fame when she won the Gilmore Artist Award in 2006. She is one of the rare pianists to have won this honour, which is awarded to an exceptional musician with a successful concert career who possesses profound musicality and considerable charisma. Fliter would come to excel in interpreting Chopin’s work, earning successive plaudits for her recordings. Her recording of Chopin’s waltzes was considered by Gramophone magazine to be “one of the best Chopin recordings of recent years”.
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