Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists
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- Bassoon
- Flute
- Oboe
- Clarinet
- French horn
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Vera Dias
Bassoon
Vera Dias was born in Guimarães. She started at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave at the age of twelve, where she began her musical studies learning bassoon with Jesus Coelho. Later, she studied with Paulo Martins, with whom she finished the Wind Instrumentalists Course, winning the Dr Manuela Carvalho Prize. At the age of eighteen she was admitted to the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik - Karlsruhe, studying bassoon with Günter Pfitzenmaier. She graduated in 2008 from Escola Superior de Música.
She has played with the Orquestra Portuguesa das Escolas de Música, the Orquestra Aproarte, the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik - Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra, the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and has given concerts throughout Europe and the East.
In 2003 and 2004, she was selected to join the European Union Youth Orchestra summer school, which she attended only in 2004. In 2003 she declined that opportunity to be able to compete for the Young Musicians Prize, in which she received 1st Prize in the Bassoon category. In 2004, she won 2nd Prize in the Landespolizei competition, in Karlsruhe.
She had a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2003 to 2006. She has been 1st Assistant Soloist with the Gulbenkian Orchestra since September 2006.
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Cristina Ánchel
Flute
Cristina Ánchel Estebas was born in Spain and began to study flute at the Torrent Conservatory of Music in Valencia, where she obtained the highest classifications. She continued her training at the Oscar Esplá Conservatory in Alicante, where she graduated with the highest mark. She also attended further training courses at the Mozarteum Salzburg and at the Bachakademie Stuttgart. In 2001 she won the Pedro Bote International Music Competition in Villafranca de los Barros.
She has worked with several orchestras including European Symphony Orchestra, Valencia Classical Orchestra, Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, Orquesta de Camara Reina Sofia, Malaga Symphony Orchestra, Valencia Symphony Orchestra, Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia de Bilbau, Madrid Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain. As a soloist, she has played works by Mozart, Ibert, C. P. E. Bach and J. S. Bach, with the Orchestra of the University of Valencia and the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Carl Nielsen Chamber Ensemble, she has performed at music festivals all over Spain.
Between 2000 and 2007, Cristina Ánchel was a flute soloist with the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra. She is now 1st soloist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra, which she joined in 2007.
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Pedro Ribeiro
Oboe
Pedro Ribeiro began his oboe studies at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave, with Saúl Silva, and completed his degree at Escola Superior de Música do Porto under Ricardo Lopes. He won 1st Prize of Juventude Musical Portuguesa (Portuguese Musical Youth), the Young Musicians Prize, the Maestro Silva Pereira Prize and the Ribeiro da Fonte Revelation Prize. He has taught at the University of Aveiro, at Escola Superior de Música do Porto and at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra.
He is a member of the Opus Ensemble, with which he recorded the CD, 2007. He is also a member of Trivm de Palhetas and Camerata Senza Misura, and also the quintet Quinteto Artziz, with whom he performed on a tour of India and Macau. He has premièred several chamber music works by Portuguese composers and recorded the CD, Contemporary Portuguese Music, with the Ensemble Mediterrain.
He has played solo with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Filarmónica da UNAM philharmonic (Mexico), the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, the Landesjugendkammer Orchester Nordrhein-Westfalen, Musique Militaire du Luxembourg, Sinfonieta de Lisboa, the Orquestra do Algarve and Filarmonia das Beiras. In addition to national music festivals, he has also participated in Jeunes Solistes Europeénnes (Luxembourg) and the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival (South Africa).
He has been a member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2000, taking the position of 1st Oboe in 2006. In 2005, he joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as guest 1st Oboe, and has given concerts in Birmingham and at the BBC Proms in London.
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Iva Barbosa
Clarinet
Iva Barbosa began studying music with her father. She later studied at the Music Conservatory of Oporto and at ESMAE, with Adam Wierzba and António Saiote, respectively. She has been an award winner in over a dozen competitions, in particular, first prizes received at the 12th Estoril Interpretation Competition / El Corte Inglês Award, at the Young Musicians Award, at the 1st International Clarinet Competition of Oporto and at the Rotary International Young Revelation Competition. She received second place in the international Young Artist Competition, in Utah (USA), at the International Villa de Montroy Competition, in Valencia, and was a semi-finalist in the international “Prague Spring” competition.
As a soloist, she has played with various orchestras, including: National Orchestra of Oporto, Academic Orchestra of Oporto, Gulbenkian Orchestra, ESMAE Orchestra, Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon, Beiras Philharmonic and the Portuguese Symphonic Orchestra.
She has been invited to give master classes on the International Music Courses of Guimarães, the Oliveira do Bairro Summer Courses, at the Costa Cabral Academy of Music, the Piaget Institute of Mirandela, the Regional Conservatory of Vila Real, the Academy of Avintes, the Espinho Professional School of Music, the Conservatory of Music of Portalegre, the Las Palmas Conservatory and the Tenerife Conservatory. She is 1st Soloist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra and a founder member of the Vintage Quartet.
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Luís Duarte Moreira
French horn
Luís Duarte Moreira was born in Paços de Ferreira in 1993. In 2005, he began his French horn studies at Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave (ARTAVE) with Hélder Vales, where he finished with the highest level in his final recital. He also won the “Dr.ª Manuela Carvalho” prize, which is awarded to the best finalist student.
From 2011 to 2015, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in horn at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto (ESMAE) with Bohdan Sebestik, Abel Pereira and Nuno Vaz, where he graduated with the highest level. In 2018 received his Master’s degree in horn from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler-Berlin, with Marie-Luise Neunecker, where he studied with a scholarship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Luís Duarte Moreira has performed in masterclasses with well-known horn players like José Bernardo Silva, David Johnson, Ricardo Matosinhos, Bruno Rafael, Paulo Guerreiro, David Thompson, Szabolcs Zempléni, Will Sanders, Kerry Turner, Frøydis Ree Wekre, Rodolfo Epelde Cruz, Stefan de Leval Jezierski, Jeff Nelsen, and Martin Owen.
In 2012 and 2014, he was awarded 1st prize at the Concurso Internacional de Instrumentos de Sopro “Terras de La-Salette” (Portugal). In 2016, he won 2nd prize (1st prize not given) in the “Internationaler Instrumentalwettbewerb Markneukirchen” (Germany). In 2017, won 1st prize in the most important competition in Portugal, “Prémio Jovens Músicos” (PJM), and in the next year he was awarded an honorable mention at the “Prague Spring” competition (Czech Republic). In 2019, he won 1st prize at the “Concurso Internacional de Sopros do Alto Minho” (Portugal) in the highest brass category. He was co-founder and member of the wind quintet Klaue which won 2nd prize at the PJM, in the chamber music category, in 2015.
In 2012, he worked with the Fundação Orquestra Estúdio, the orchestra of the capital of culture in 2012 (Guimarães). He has performed in many youth orchestras, such as Orquestra Sinfónica APROARTE, Sinfónica da ESMAE, Estágio Gulbenkian para Orquestra, Orquestra Jovem Sinfónica da Galiza, Landesjugendorchester Bremen and Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. He collaborates regularly with Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa (BSP), Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, Orquestra XXI, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Ensemble Resonanz-Hamburgo, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto – Casa da Música, and Orquestra Sinfónica da Galiza.
He has performed as a soloist with Orquestra ARTAVE, Philharmonisches Orchester Plauen- Zwickau, Orquestra Gulbenkian, and Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, and he was the horn teacher at the 1st and 2nd “Encontro Nacional de Jovens Músicos” (Vieira do Minho).
He has given masterclasses at the Universidade do Minho, Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga, Festival BSP Júnior, Conservatório d’Artes de Loures, Banda Marcial do Vale, Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho, Academia de Música de Castelo de Paiva (“Masters in Paiva”), and the ESMAE.
Currently, he teaches horn at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra and he is solo horn in Orquestra Gulbenkian.
Luciano Berio
Opus Number Zoo
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Quinteto em forma de chôros
David Maslanka
Wind Wuintet No. 3
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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