Fairy Tales
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 €
10% – Cartão Gulbenkian
- Conductor
- Flute
- Presenter
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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.
Hannu Lintu is the Music Director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2023.
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Charlotte Corderoy
Conductor
Awarded Critics' Circle 'Conductor of the Year, 2025' — Charlotte works internationally and at home as a conductor and educator. Her collaborations have seen her work with: The Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the opera pit, Charlotte's debuts include: English National Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, Opera Holland Park, Volksoper Wien, Irish National Opera and State Opera South Australia.
Charlotte enjoys a close collaborative relationship with renowned soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan — during her time as a postgraduate student at The Royal Academy of Music, Charlotte and Barbara recorded a new disk of Stravinsky's chamber works. Featuring musicians from The Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School, the disk was released with Linn Records in 2024.
Born in 1997, Charlotte graduated from Oxford University with First Class Honours in Music. She went on to study conducting at the Royal Academy of Music where she is currently Musical Director of their inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department and was named an Honorary Associate (ARAM) in 2026.
She was assistant conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2023–25.
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Cristina Ánchel
Flute
Cristina Ánchel Estebas was born in Spain and began to study flute at the Torrent Conservatory of Music in Valencia, where she obtained the highest classifications. She continued her training at the Oscar Esplá Conservatory in Alicante, where she graduated with the highest mark. She also attended further training courses at the Mozarteum Salzburg and at the Bachakademie Stuttgart. In 2001 she won the Pedro Bote International Music Competition in Villafranca de los Barros.
She has worked with several orchestras including European Symphony Orchestra, Valencia Classical Orchestra, Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, Orquesta de Camara Reina Sofia, Malaga Symphony Orchestra, Valencia Symphony Orchestra, Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia de Bilbau, Madrid Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain. As a soloist, she has played works by Mozart, Ibert, C. P. E. Bach and J. S. Bach, with the Orchestra of the University of Valencia and the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Carl Nielsen Chamber Ensemble, she has performed at music festivals all over Spain.
Between 2000 and 2007, Cristina Ánchel was a flute soloist with the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra. She is now 1st soloist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra, which she joined in 2007.
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Vera Dias
Bassoon
Vera Dias was born in Guimarães. She started at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave at the age of twelve, where she began her musical studies learning bassoon with Jesus Coelho. Later, she studied with Paulo Martins, with whom she finished the Wind Instrumentalists Course, winning the Dr Manuela Carvalho Prize. At the age of eighteen she was admitted to the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik - Karlsruhe, studying bassoon with Günter Pfitzenmaier. She graduated in 2008 from Escola Superior de Música.
She has played with the Orquestra Portuguesa das Escolas de Música, the Orquestra Aproarte, the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik - Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra, the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and has given concerts throughout Europe and the East.
In 2003 and 2004, she was selected to join the European Union Youth Orchestra summer school, which she attended only in 2004. In 2003 she declined that opportunity to be able to compete for the Young Musicians Prize, in which she received 1st Prize in the Bassoon category. In 2004, she won 2nd Prize in the Landespolizei competition, in Karlsruhe.
She had a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2003 to 2006. She has been 1st Assistant Soloist with the Gulbenkian Orchestra since September 2006.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cécile Chaminade
Engelbert Humperdinck
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
In this Sunday Concert, we are carried away by music’s immense ability to become intertwined with great narratives. In the cases of Humperdinck and Tchaikovsky, their scores were composed to help shape the imaginary worlds of the children’s tales Hänsel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty, while Felix Mendelssohn wrote for one of Shakespeare’s most enchanting comedies, centred on the love triangle of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mozart, for his part, elevated the fantasy of The Magic Flute. Cécile Chaminade poured the full expression of an epic romance into her Concertino.
Photo © Leanne Punshon
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