Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists
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- Trumpet
- Trumpet
- French horn
- Trombone
- Bass trombone
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Carlos Leite
Trumpet
Carlos Leite was born in Cabeceiras de Basto. At the age of eleven he joined Vasco Faria's trumpet class at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave. He later studied with Eliseu Correia and completed his studies at Artave in 2011. He then enrolled in the Escola Superior de Música e Artes e do Espetáculo, in Kevin Wauldron's class. He was awarded the 1st Prize in several national competitions, including the Wind Instruments Competition "Terras de La Salette", the Póvoa de Varzim Trumpet Competition and the Luso-Galaico Albertino Lucas Competition. He also participated in the 26th edition of the Young Musicians Award, winning the 3rd Prize - Top Level. In the same year, he won the scholarship for the 38th Annual Conference of the International Trumpet Guild in Michigan, Chicago. In 2014 he was approved for the Erasmus program, at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, and entered Angel Serrano's trumpet class. Between 2014 and 2018, he was a full member of the European Union Youth Orchestra. He has attended master classes by Hakan Hardenberger, Michael Sachs, Mireia Farrés, Frits Damrow and Pierre Dutot, among others. In 2015 he finished his degree in Trumpet Music - with a perfect score of 20 out of 20 in Trumpet. He was a guest teacher at the 23rd and 24th Technical-Interpretative Improvement Courses of the Music Conservatory of Paredes, 2nd Junior BSP (Portuguese Symphonic Band) Festival. In 2017 he was awarded the 1st prize in the 26th Lions European Music Competition in Montreux, Switzerland. In 2017 and 2018, he taught trumpet at the Academia de Música Costa Cabral and Escola Superior de Música e Artes e do Espetáculo. In addition to the 1st reinforcement in the Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra, Carlos Leite collaborates with the Barcelona and National Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia and the Portuguese Symphonic Band. He recently won the Gulbenkian Orchestra's audition for Soloist A.
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José Pedro Pereira
Trumpet
José Pedro Pereira was born in 1998. He is trumpet B soloist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He initiated his piano and trumpet studies at the Conservatório de Música de Felgueiras, later continuing his training at the Academia José Atalaya in Fafe. In 2010, he enrolled at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave where he studied under Paulo Silva and graduated with top marks. In 2016, he was admitted into the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste – Zurich, where he studied under Frits Damrow and Laurent Tinguely and also, for Baroque trumpet, under Simon Lilly.
During his training, he took countless advanced courses with Pierre Dutot, Frits Damrow, Mark David, Pasi Pirinen, Philippe Litzler, Pacho Flores, Konradin Groth, Reinhold Friedrich, Jeroen Berwaerts, Philip Smith and Sergei Nakariakov, among others.
He has won awards in Portuguese and international competitions, including the Eric Aubier International Trumpet Competition (France), Internationaler Bodensee Musikwettbewerb (Germany), “Terras de La Salette” Wind Instruments International Competition, Póvoa de Varzim Trumpet Competition, Rubén Simeó International Trumpet Competition and the Albertino Lucas Luso-Galician Competition. In 2018, he won 1st Prize (advanced level) at the 32nd Young Musicians Awards.
He was a student musician at the Opernaus Zürich / Philharmonia Zürich (2019–2022), where he worked with innumerable internationally renowned conductors and singers. In the role of soloist, he has played for the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestre de l‘Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa.
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Pedro Fernandes
French Horn
Pedro Miguel Pereira Fernandes was born in 1990 in Viana do Castelo. He initially studied at the Escola Profissional de Música de Viana do Castelo under the teachers Sónia Feijó and Bruno Rafael. In 2008, he was admitted to the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto (ESMAE) where he studied with Bohdan Sebestik and Abel Pereira and graduated in 2012. In 2017, he completed his master’s degree in Education at the University of Minho’s Instituto de Educação.
He has taken part in and attended masterclasses in Portugal and abroad given by Ab Koster, Abel Pereira, Froydis Ree Wekre, Hermann Baumann, Javier Bonet, Jindřich Petrás, Jiří Havlik, Jonathan Luxton, José Bernardo Silva, Michelle Stebleton, Radovan Vlatkovic, Spanish Brass Luur Metalls, Will Sanders, Zdeněk Divoký and Zoltán Mácsai, among others.
In 2008, he came second in the youth category at the 1st “Terras de La Salette” National Wind Instrument Competition and in 2019 he was awarded first place in the senior category, as well as the Dona Aldina Prize, at the 14th “Terras de La Salette” International Wind Instrument Competition.
He has been a member of the Orquestra APROARTE, Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa. As a guest performer, he has played with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Orquestra de Câmara do Minho, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Fundação Orquestra Estúdio, Orquesta de la Comunidade de Madrid, Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, Oviedo Filarmonía, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Remix Ensemble Casa da Música, Orquestra Sinfónica de Bilbau and Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias directed by renowned conductors such as Antoni Rós Marbá, Antonio Pappano, Christoph König, Daniele Gatti, David Afkham, Douglas Bostock, Eliahu Inbal, Emilio Pomàrico, Evgeny Bushkov, Gilbert Varga, Harry Lith, Herbert Blomstedt, James Judd, John Storgårds, Jonathan Nott, Joseph Vicente, Joseph Young, Juanjo Mena, Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko, Leo Mcfall, Lothar Zagrosek, Michael Sanderling, Michael Zilm, Olari Elts, Peter Rundel, Pietro Rizzo, Philippe Jordan, Simone Young, Sir Colin Davis, Takuo Yuasa and Yoel Gamzou. He is currently a member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Quarteto Português de Trompas.
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Rui Fernandes
Trombone
Rui Fernandes was born in Lanhelas, Caminha. He began his musical studies at the age of eight in the Banda Musical Lanhelense. He later studied with José Borges at the Escola Profissional de Música de Viana do Castelo. At 18, he continued his studies at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa with Ismael Santos and, at 23, he joined the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he studied with Chris Houlding. Throughout his education, he also attended courses with the most prestigious trombonists worldwide, such as Josep Alessi, Ian Bousfield, Don Lucas, Gusztav Hona and David Bruchez, amongst others.
Rui Fernandes has played with several chamber music groups and performed solo with the Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras at the Estoril Music Festival. He has also played with the principal Portuguese orchestras, including the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa and the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, playing with prestigious conductors and soloists. As a teacher, he has taught trombone at the Alhandra and Minde Music Schools. From 2008 to 2010, he was trombonist with the Remix Ensemble Casa da Música. He has been 2nd trombone soloist of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2010. He is also currently a member of the trombone and tuba group, Wild Bones Gang.
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Thierry Redondo
Trombone
Thierry Fradinho Redondo was born on 17 March 1994 in Paris. He began to study music at the age of 9 in the Banda Filarmónica Simão da Veiga at the Casa do Povo de Lavre under the teachers Rui Ferreira and Fernando Palacino. At 14, he studied with Reinaldo Guerreiro at the Escola Profissional Metropolitana. He completed his degree at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (ANSO), also under Reinaldo Guerreiro, and at 18 won second prize in the 2012 “Terras de La Sallete” International Competition in the senior category.
After finishing his undergraduate degree, he took a master’s in Performance under Thomas Leyendecker at the Hochschle für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig in Germany. In 2019, he won an audition to join the Staatskapelle Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) under the conductor Daniel Berenboim and musical direction of Jürgen Oswald and Filipe Alves. He is currently bass trombonist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra after successfully auditioning in 2022.
Witold Lutosławski
Mini Overture
Victor Ewald
Brass Quintet No. 1, op.5
André Lafosse
Suite Impromptu
Michael Tilson Thomas
Street Song
Leonard Bernstein
Dance Suite
Total approximate duration: 60 minutes without intermission
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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