Gulbenkian Choir at São Roque
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Date
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Location
Igreja de S. Roque Largo Trindade Coelho, LisbonPricing
25% – Under 30
10% – Over 65
Cartão Gulbenkian:
50% – Under 30
15% – Over 65
- Inês Tavares Lopes Conductor
- Sérgio Silva Organ
- Cello
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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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Raquel Reis
Cello
Raquel Reis studied cello with Isabel Boiça at the Conservatório de Música de Aveiro Calouste Gulbenkian and completed her degree at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, where her teacher was Paulo Gaio Lima. She received first prizes in the Caldas da Rainha Interpretation Competition, the Samuel and Elinor Thaviu Endowed Scholarship Competition in String Performance (Northwestern University) and the Winnetka Music Club Scholarship.
In 2007, she completed her Masters in String Performance at the Northwestern University School of Music in Chicago, with Hans Jensen. She was awarded scholarships by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Raquel Reis was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Spira Mirabilis Orchestra and has performed solo with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orquestra Académica Metropolitana and the Orquestra Clássica de Espinho. She is a member of the Trio Pessoa, with which she recorded the CD Pessoa, dedicated to Portuguese music. She also recorded the CD of Portuguese and Brazilian music, Mundo Grande. She has been a member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since September 2007.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, op. 91/1
Die Deutsche Liturgie
– Kyrie
– Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
– Heilig
Johann Sebastian Bach
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230
Arioso, da cantata BWV 156 (organ and cello)
Johann Christoph Bach
Ich lasse dich nicht
François Couperin
Messe pour les Couvents
– Gloria : Domine deus (organ)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Te Deum
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (organ)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
On the last day of the year, the Gulbenkian Choir will continue its long-standing tradition of performing in the São Roque Church for a much-awaited São Silvestre concert. Under the direction of Maestra Inês Tavares Lopes, it will interpret sacred works by great composers, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, master of the German musical Baroque and a major figure in the history of Western music.
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