Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists
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Marco Pereira
Cello
Marco Pereira studied cello at the Escola Profissional de Música de Viana do Castelo and at Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon, with Paulo Gaio Lima. He later attended Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid, where he was a pupil of Natalia Shakovskaya. During this course he had the opportunity to work with other great cello masters such as Natalia Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Phillipe Muller and Ivan Monighetti.
The string quartet has always been important from very early on in his career, reaching its peak with the foundation of the Quarteto de Cordas de Matosinhos. This quartet was selected as ECHO Rising Stars 2015.
In 2003, Marco Pereira won the Portuguese Musical Youth competition in both the Chamber Music and Cello (advanced) categories, and received the Maestro Silva Pereira Prize and the Young Musicians Prize. Abroad, he was awarded 1st prize in the Liezen International Wettbewerb für Violoncello competition in Austria. He also received 1st prize at the 6th Chamber Music Competition of Sardinero, Santander, in 2006.
Marco Pereira is 1st soloist in the cello section of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He regularly performs as a concert soloist, playing with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Joensuu Orchestra (Finland) and the Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra (U.S.A.), amongst others. He taught cello at the University of Aveiro and University of Minho. Since 2011, he has been the D'Addario Bowed Artist and Faculty Artist of the Atlantic Music Festival - Watterville (U.S.A.).
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Martin Henneken
Cello
Martin Henneken received his first cello lessons at the age of six. He studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Germany) with Troels Svane. He later studied with Reinhard Latzko at the Vienna University of Music (Austria) where he completed his Master’s degree with distinction. Musicians such as cellist Lynn Harrell and violinist Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet) complemented his training. He has won awards several times at the German National Young Musicians Competition. He was a student of the Live Music Now Foundation created by Yehudi Menuhin.
During his studies, he played regularly with various orchestras, such as the Lübeck Philharmonic, the Volksoper Wien Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of India, Mumbai. In 2009 and 2010, he was a member of the Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna Philharmonic) with which he had the opportunity to participate in recordings, international tours and festivals (Salzburg, Lucerne, BBC Proms). Since 2010, he has been 2nd Cello Soloist of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
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Jeremy Lake
Cello
Jeremy Lake began studying cello at the age of ten. In 1986, with a Royal College of Music scholarship, he studied with Joan Dickson in London. The Martin Musical Trust award allowed him to continue to attend the Royal College. He has been awarded several prizes, particularly in the fields of chamber music and contemporary music. He was chosen by the Royal College of Music to participate in a cello ensemble with the celebrated Mstislav Rostropovitch, playing music by Heitor Villa-Lobos. At the same time, he founded a piano trio with his father, the pianist Ian Lake, and violinist Frances Mason, both teachers at the Royal College of Music. In 1991, he was a finalist for the European Music for Youth competition, taking part in the final at London's Purcell Room.
He has played with various orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has also played in concerts as a soloist and given solo recitals at various music festivals in Great Britain, Denmark and Portugal. He was a member of the Alba String Quartet and Delphos Music Group International, with whom he toured extensively throughout Europe.
In 1998, he joined the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and was a teacher at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra. He began his association with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in 2001, and became a permanent member in 2005.
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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.
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Gonçalo Lélis
Cello
Born in Aveiro, Gonçalo Lélis began his musical studies at the age of 6 at the Music Conservatory of his hometown in the class of Isabel Boiça. He later studied with Natalia Shakhovskaya and Ivan Monighetti at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid. He completed his bachelor in 2017, under the guidance of Pavel Gomziakov, at the University of Minho, in Braga. He is currently attending postgraduate studies (Konzertexamen) in the class of Professor Xenia Jankovic, at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany), where he obtained the highest classification in his master's recital.
He won prizes at several competitions, such as “Prémio Jovens Músicos” (2015, 1st Prize in the Cello Category and the “EMCY” Prize), “Vasco Barbosa String Competition” (2016, 1st Prize), “International Competition of the City of Fundão” ( 2017, 1st Prize), “Agustin Aponte International Competition” (2018, Spain, 1st Prize). Gonçalo Lélis performs regularly in Portugal, highlighting recitals at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Casa da Música or Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and solo concerts with the Orquestra das Beiras, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra Gulbenkian or with Orquestra Clássica da Madeira.
Between 2014 and 2019, as the cellist of the Ramales Trio, formed in Madrid, he performed at some of the most important concert halls in Spain, including the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. This group also participated in several competitions, winning the 1st Prize at the “Ecoparque de Trasmiera International Chamber Music Competition” (Cantabria, Spain) or the 2nd Prize at the “Anton García Abril International Chamber Music Competition”. In 2019, the Ramales Trio performed at the Wigmore Hall, in London, as finalists of the “Parkhouse Award” competition. Another highlight of his chamber music activity is a quartet recital with works by Mozart and Dvořák at the Weill Recital Hall of the Carnegie Hall in 2022.
Since 2021, he has been the cellist of the “ars ad hoc” ensemble, which dedicates itself to contemporary chamber music, as well as representative works from the classical repertoire. He received scholarships from Fundación Carolina, Fundación Albéniz and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
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Hugo Paiva
Cello
Hugo Paiva began his musical studies at the Vale do Ave Artistic Professional School, in the cello class of Professor Petia Samardjieva. He had the opportunity to work with cellists such as Paulo Gaio Lima, Jed Barahal, Anatoli Krastev, Márcio Carneiro, Ilia Laporev, Pieter Wispelwey, Xavier Gagnepain, Maria de Macedo, Xavier Philips, Daniel Grosgurin, Jeroen Reuling, Nobuko Yamazaki, Eric-Maria Couturier, Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Marc Coppey, Claudio Bohórquez, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, among others.
In 2013, he completed his bachelor's degree at the National Superior Academy of Orchestra in the class of Paulo Gaio Lima, and later joined the MasterConcert at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in the class of Daniel Grosgurin/Ophélie Gaillard and chamber music class with Gábor Takács-Nagy.
In June 2014, he won the 3rd prize at the St. Cecilia Competition in Porto. In September 2015, he won the 3rd prize at the "Prémio jovens Músicos - Antena 2 / nível superior de violoncelo" competition. In the same year, he recorded for Ophélie Gaillard's album "Alvorada". In 2015, he joined the International Menuhin Music Academy (IMMA) under the direction of Maxim Vengerov, in the cello class of Pablo de Naveran, and was part of the Ensemble Menuhin Academy Soloists.
Hugo Paiva has performed at various festivals and important venues, such as the Istanbul Music Festival, Ohrid Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Pietra Santa in Concerto Festival, Festival du Printemps du Violon PARIS, Ensemble de Violoncelos de Santa Cristina, Crans Montana Classics, Lockenhaus Festival, KKL – Luzern (Switzerland), Mozarteum – Salzburg (Austria), Victoria Hall – Genève (Switzerland), BFM - Genève (Switzerland), Église Saneen – Saneen/Gstaad (Switzerland), Zorlu Center – Istanbul (Turkey), Kirchner Cultural Center – Buenos Aires (Argentina), Teatro El Circulo – Rosario (Argentina), Teatro Las Condes – Santiago (Chile), Casa de la Música – Quito (Ecuador), Rosey Concert Hall – Rolle (Switzerland), Burg Lockenhaus Castle - Lockenhaus (Austria), Oxford and Cambridge Club – London, Zentrum Paul Klee – Berne (Switzerland), CCB – Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Auditorium – Lisbon, Casa da Música – Porto, Philharmonie de Paris, Palau de La Música (Barcelona), etc.
In 2018, together with pianist Mrika Sefa, he founded the Duo Litanei. In 2022, he completed his Master's degree in Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' Leipzig.
Hugo Paiva resides in Leipzig, where he regularly participates in chamber music projects and contemporary music ensembles.
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João Paulo Morais Valpaços
Cello
João Paulo Morais Valpaços (Chaves, 1994) began his musical studies in 2006 at the Escola Profissional de Arte de Mirandela (Portugal) in the cello class of David Cruz and later in the class of Ricardo Ferreira, and he graduated with the highest mark in instrument final exam. In 2012 he was admitted at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (Netherlands) in the cello class of Ran Varon, where in 2016 he finished his bachelor diploma with Honours.
He was a member and first cellist in many youth orchestras in Portugal and Netherlands and now collaborates frequently with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Orquestra XXI where he has the opportunity to work with the most prestigious musicians and conductors of the music panorama.
During his solo career, João got in 2011 an Honorable Mention in the 13th Concurso Santa Cecília (Portugal), in 2013 the 1st prize in the third category of Britten Cello Concours (Netherlands) and in 2014 the 2nd prize in the category A of 16th International Competition Santa Cecília (Portugal). He has performed solo with orchestra in Holland playing Haydn’s, “Concerto in C major”, and Tchaikovsky's “Rococo Variations”. He had the opportunity to work with well-known cellists as Gary Hoffman, Lluis Claret, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Marc Coppey, Daniel Grosgorin, Claudio Bohórquez, Matt Haimovitz, Márcio Carneiro, Maria de Macedo, Amit Peled and many others.
In 2019, João finished his Master Perfomance Diploma at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the class of Dmitry Ferschtman and Jeroen den Herder, with the support of a scholarship given by the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, for eight cellos
Carlos Eleta Almarán
Historia de un Amor
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Melodia sentimental
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story
The Gulbenkian Orchestra consists of musicians of great technical and artistic quality. Throughout the season, they also perform in free chamber music concerts, thus emerging from the anonymity of their roles within the orchestra. While making themselves much more visible, they also make a considerable contribution to a greater appreciation of chamber music as a whole, from the standard repertoire to the premieres of new works.
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