Gulbenkian Choir A Cappella
Arvo Pärt / Frank Martin
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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
Maestra Adjunta
Mestre em Direção Coral pela Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, estudou direção coral com os maestros Paulo Lourenço, Eugene Rogers, Cara Tasher, Stephen Coker e Brett Scott, e canto com Isabel Alcobia, Ângela Silva, Joana Nascimento, Geert Berghs, Jill Feldman e Rita Marques.
Lecionou no Conservatório de Música e na Escola Profissional da Metropolitana, bem como na Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, entre 2011 e 2017. De 2015 a 2017, ocupou o cargo de monitora na Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, onde lecionou as disciplinas de coro, técnicas de direção coral, técnica vocal e conjuntos vocais e instrumentais.
Maestra fundadora do Ensemble Vocal Desafinados (2012) e do Coro Juvenil da AMAL (2017), foi também membro do Tenso Europe Chamber Choir, em 2013 e 2014. Entre 2013 e 2019, integrou o Coro Gulbenkian, colaborando também como ensaiadora.
Como cantora, participa em projetos com os agrupamentos Officium Ensemble, Voces Caelestes, Ludovice Ensemble, Capella Patriarchal, ensemble mpmp, ECCE Ensemble, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa e Polyphonos Ensemble. Em 2020 tornou-se diretora artística do Ensemble Vocal Aura, projeto dedicado exclusivamente a vozes femininas. Entre 2021 e 2023 foi Maestra Assistente do Coro Gulbenkian, tendo assumido o cargo de Maestra Adjunta partir de janeiro de 2024.
Arvo Pärt
Da pacem Domine
Arvo Pärt
Magnificat
Arvo Pärt
Nunc dimittis
Frank Martin
Mass for double choir a cappella
Under the direction of Inês Tavares Lopes, the Gulbenkian Choir returns to the Grand Auditorium to perform important works from the 20th century a cappella repertoire. The impressionist modernism and the devotional music expression of the Mass for Double Choir (1922-1926), by the Swiss composer Frank Martin, is set against the colorful textures of three inspired and ethereal pieces by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
