Gulbenkian Choir at São Roque
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Igreja de S. Roque Largo Trindade Coelho, Lisbon- Inês Tavares Lopes Direction
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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.
Francis Poulenc
Frank Martin
Samuel Barber
Miguel Jesus
The emotional intensity that Samuel Barber put into his Adagio for Strings catapulted this composition into the work of choice for moments of national mourning in the United States: it accompanied the announcement of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death and was played during both John F. Kennedy’s and Albert Einstein’s funeral ceremonies. Thirty years after the original composition, Barber adapted the piece for the choral version Agnus Dei, work that will be presented at the traditional New Year’s Eve concert by the Gulbenkian Choir at the Church of São Roque, alongside sacred works by Poulenc, Frank Martin and Miguel Jesus.
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