Gulbenkian Choir a cappella
Le Cantique des cantiques
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- 20:00 / Cancelled 20:00 / Sold out Thursday, 20:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation- Conductor
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Gulbenkian Choir
Coro Gulbenkian was founded in 1964 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as a full symphonic body of around 100 singers. The choir joins the Orquestra Gulbenkian and other orchestras to perform Classical, Romantic and Contemporary choral-symphonic repertoire, but can also perform a cappella. It has performed – and often premiered – many 20th century works by Portuguese and international composers.
Coro Gulbenkian has been invited to collaborate with major international orchestras, under the direction of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Colin Davis, John Nelson, Emmanuel Krivine, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Frans Brüggen, Franz Welser-Möst, Gerd Albrecht, Michael Gielen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, René Jacobs and Leonard Slatkin, among others.
Besides its regular season of concerts in Lisbon and frequent national tours, Coro Gulbenkian has repeatedly toured Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Uruguay.
Coro Gulbenkian has recorded extensively for Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, Cascavelle, Musifrance, as well as FNAC-Music, performing a wide range of repertoire, from Early-Renaissance polyphony to Xenakis. Several of these albums received international awards.
Michel Corboz was the Principal Conductor between 1969 and 2019. Jorge Matta and Inês Tavares Lopes are currently the Associate and Assistant conductors, respectively.
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Inês Tavares Lopes
Associate Conductor
Inês Tavares Lopes has a master’s degree in Choral Conducting from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where she studied choral conducting under Paulo Lourenço, Eugene Rogers, Cara Tasher, Stephen Coker and Brett Scott and singing under Isabel Alcobia, Ângela Silva, Joana Nascimento, Geert Berghs, Jill Feldman and Rita Marques.
She taught at the Conservatório de Música and Escola Profissional da Metropolitana, as well as the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, from 2011 to 2017. From 2015 to 2017, she held the position of monitor at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where she taught choir, choral conducting techniques, vocal technique, and vocal and instrumental ensembles.
She was a founding conductor of the Ensemble Vocal Desafinados (2012) and Coro Juvenil da AMAL (2017), and also a member of the Tenso Europe Chamber Choir in 2013 and 2014. Between 2013 and 2019, she was part of the Gulbenkian Choir, where she also conducted rehearsals.
As a singer, she takes part in projects with the Officium Ensemble, Voces Caelestes, Ludovice Ensemble, Capella Patriarchal, ensemble mpmp, ECCE Ensemble, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa and Polyphonos Ensemble. In 2020, she became artistic director for the Ensemble Vocal Aura, a project exclusively dedicated to female voices. In January 2024, she took up the position of Associate Conductor of the Gulbenkian Choir.
György Ligeti
Lux aeterna
Francis Poulenc
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise
Arvo Pärt
Magnificat
Nunc dimittis
Daniel-Lesur
Le Cantique des cantiques
O Cântico dos cânticos, também conhecido como Cânticos de Salomão, é um dos livros presentes nas Bíblias hebraica e cristã. Recheado de poemas de amor, o Cântico integra a espiritualidade com o amor humano, descrevendo-o como sendo “forte como a morte”. Daniel-Lesur utilizou sete passagens deste livro numa obra para doze vozes a cappella, obtendo um resultado pleno de diferentes cores, virtuosismo e intimidade.
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