Crivo – Women Composers Festival
Gulbenkian Orchestra
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Date
- 20:00 / Cancelled 20:00 / Sold out Thursday, 20:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation- Conductor
- Cello
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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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Tianyi Lu
Conductor
Internationally recognized for her thrilling energy on the podium, deeply creative interpretation, and open-hearted leadership, Chinese-born New Zealander Tianyi Lu collaborates with leading orchestras and opera houses around the world. Her work is driven by an ethos of empowerment, creating connection, and compassion across diverse communities through music.
After winning first prize in 2020 at both the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition and the International Conducting Competition ‘Guido Cantelli’ in Italy, Tianyi Lu was appointed Conductor-in-Residence with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway, a position she held until the end of the 2023/24 season. She served as Principal Conductor of the St Woolos Sinfonia in the UK until 2024 and was Assistant Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2019.
Recent highlights include Tianyi Lu’s BBC Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sol Gabetta, as well as performances and recordings with the New York Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Philharmonia Orchestra, The Hallé Manchester, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre National de Lyon, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and Sydney Symphony. A former Dudamel Fellow, she made her Hollywood Bowl debut with the LA Philharmonic in 2021 and returned for her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in 2023. Her operatic engagements include “Rigoletto” at Aalto-Musiktheater Essen and the 2023 world premiere of “Marie & Pierre” at Theater Basel.
In the 2025/26 season, Tianyi Lu makes notable debuts with international orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, New World Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Athens State Orchestra, Bochumer Symphoniker, and embarks on a touring project debut in Belgium with the Orchestre National de Belgique. She also returns to perform with the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony.
Deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to fostering a more empathetic world through the arts, Tianyi Lu serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and is an Artist Ambassador for Opera for Peace. She is frequently invited to collaborate with communities and institutions, sharing her insights on empowering leadership, cultural transformation, resilience, and wellbeing. Her outreach work includes appearances on Welsh National Opera’s podcast “The O Word”, guest speaking for London Marathon Events and the “Do More Good” podcast, and conducting and hosting “Ears Wide Open” concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Tianyi Lu completed her Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting with Distinction at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2015, studying under David Jones. She has assisted or participated in masterclasses with Sir Andrew Davis and Xian Zhang (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Daniele Gatti (Concertgebouworkest), and Bernard Haitink (Lucerne Festival Orchestra). Tianyi is also an alumna of the Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera. Her teachers and mentors include Sian Edwards, Carlo Rizzi, Neemi Järvi, Alexander Polianichko, Kenneth Kiesler, Carlo Montanaro, and Alice Farnham.
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Jay Campbell
Cello
Jay Campbell is a cellist actively exploring a wide range of creative music. He has been recognized for approaching both old and new music with the same curiosity and commitment, and his performances have been called “electrifying” by the New York Times and “gentle, poignant, and deeply moving” by the Washington Post.
The only musician ever to receive two Avery Fisher Career Grants — in 2016 as a soloist, and again in 2019 as a member of the JACK Quartet — Jay made his concerto debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2013 and in 2016, he worked with Alan Gilbert as the artistic director for Ligeti Forward, part of the New York Philharmonic Biennale at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2017, he was Artist-in-Residence at the Lucerne Festival along with frequent collaborator violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, where he gave the premiere of Luca Francesconi’s cello concerto Das Ding Singt. In 2018 he appeared at the Berlin Philharmonie with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He has recorded the concertos of George Perle and Marc-Andre Dalbavie with the Seattle Symphony, and in 2023/2024 will premiere a new concerto, Reverdecer, by Andreia Pinto-Correia with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Portugal, and in Brazil with the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo. In 2022 he returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic as curator and cellist for his second Green Umbrella concert, premiering two concertos by Wadada Leo Smith and inti figgis-vizueta.
Jay’s primary artistic interest is the collaboration with living creative musicians and has worked in this capacity with Catherine Lamb, John Luther Adams, Marcos Balter, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. His close association with John Zorn resulted in two discs of new works for cello, Hen to Pan (2015) and Azoth (2020). Deeply committed as a chamber musician, he is the cellist of the JACK Quartet as well as the Junction Trio with violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Conrad Tao, and multidisciplinary collective AMOC.
Andreia Pinto Correia
Reverdecer, concerto for cello and orchestra
— Intermission of 20 min. —Dora Pejačević
Symphony in F-sharp minor, op. 41
Total approximate duration: 100 min.
In a free concert, the Gulbenkian Orchestra will perform two symphonic works by two outstanding women composers: Croatia’s Dora Pejačević and Portugal’s Andreia Pinto Correia, as part of Crivo – Women Composers Festival. Pejačević was the first woman in her country to compose orchestral music, with her Symphony op. 41 one of her most notable works. Award-winning contemporary composer Andreia Pinto Correia wrote the concerto Reverdecer for cellist Jay Campbell, a work that the composer describes as “a journey of emotions, memories, longing, and hope”.
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