Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists
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Date
- 20:00 / Cancelled 20:00 / Sold out Monday, 20:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
- Free admission
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- Violin
- Double bass
- Clarinet
- Bassoon
- Trumpet
- Trombone
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Anna Paliwoda
Violin
Anna Paliwoda was born in Katowice in Poland in 1992. She began her musical studies at the age of seven at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, continuing at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, also in Poland. Between 2013 and 2017, she studied violin under Professor Marco Rizzi and viola under professor Diemut Poppen at the Reina Sofía School of Music. She has attended masterclasses by Vadim Gluzman, Nils Mönkemeyer, Günter Pichler and Mauricio Fuks, and has won prizes for violin in various competitions: Bohdan Warchal International Strings Competition (Dolný Kubín, Slovakia), Sochaczew Violin Competition (Poland), and 2nd Tadeusz Wronski Young Violinists Competition (solo violin, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland). In 2012, she was also a finalist at the 9th Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition (Fermo, Italy). She has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez, Zubin Mehta, Pablo Heras-Casado and Stefan Lano; Freixenet Chamber Orchestra, conducted by András Schiff and Eldar Nebolsin; and Camerata Viesgo, conducted by Gordan Nikolic and Peter Eötvös. She has also been a member of the Cuarteto Mendelssohn and the Cuarteto Óscar Esplá de Asisa. In 2016, she completed a bachelor’s degree at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and in 2017 joined the first violins of the Basque National Orchestra in San Sebastián. She has participated regularly in the Festival Cantabile, presenting chamber music concerts beside soloists such as Diemut Poppen, Ivan Monigetti and Christel Lee. She has lived in Lisbon since 2018, is studying at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, under Professor Ana Beatriz Manzanilla, and is leader of the second violins of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. In 2019, she won the Concurso de Interpretação do Estoril.
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Domingos Ribeiro
Double Bass
Domingos Ribeiro was born in Macao in 1992. He began his musical studies with Cristina Costa at the Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory of Music in Braga. He graduated in 2013 from the Lisbon Conservatory, in Manuel Rego's class. He later studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reine Sofía in Madrid with Duncan McTier and Antonio García Araque, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Albeniz Foundation. He was an academician with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, an orchestra with which he still works, collaborating regularly with Philipp Stubenrauch, Wies de Boevé, Heinrich Braun and Alexandra Scott. He also complemented his career by attending masterclasses or private lessons with Janne Saksala, Matthew McDonald, Rinat Ibragimov, Catalin Rotaru, Petru Iuga, Edicson Ruiz, Benedikt Hubner, Gary Karr, Iouri Axenov, Wolfgang Güttler, Hans Adler, Tom Goodman and others.
He played in a number of youth orchestras, most particularly the Orchestre de Jeunes de la Méditerranée and the European Union Youth Orchestra, in both of which he was Section Leader. He has been guest reinforcement for Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música in 2014, the National Orchestra of Spain in 2016 and the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 2017. In addition to these orchestras, he has also played with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon and Orquestra XXI, among others. He has worked with many conductors, including Mariss Janson, Bernard Haitink, Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Riccardo Muti, John Eliot Gardiner, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Ton Koopman, David Afkham, Krzysztof Urbański, Christian Zacharias, Alain Altinoglu, Lahav Shani, Matthias Pintscher, Christian Macelaru, Susanna Malkki, Carlo Rizzi, Peter Eötvös, Bertrand de Billy, Pietari Inkinen, Juanjo Mena, Peter Stark, Vasili Petrenko, Lawrence Foster, Michael Zilm, Brad Lubman, Michael Sanderling, Enrico Pomàrico, James Judd and Olari Elts.
As a soloist, he has performed with the Lisbon Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and with the Camerata Gareguin Arantounian. He won the first edition of the Vasco Barbosa Competition in 2015, having performed solo at the Centro Cultural de Belém, with Camerata Atlântica, and recorded for RDP - Antena 2. In 2017, he was selected for the position of Leader of the Double Bass section - 1st Soloist - in the Gulbenkian Orchestra, a title he currently holds. He is in the 2nd year of his Masters in Music Teaching at Lisbon Conservatory. He is regularly invited to direct masterclasses and chamber music projects.
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Telmo Costa
Clarinet
Telmo began his musical studies when he was 7 years old with José Américo Belinha in Tuna Musical de São Paio de Oleiros. Then, he started studying with Hélder Tavares in Academia de Música de Paços de Brandão, where he finished highschool with distinction. He attended several masterclasses with António Saiote, Nuno Pinto, Florent Héau, François Benda, Kilian Herold, Harri Mäki, among others.
He was awarded with many prizes in national and international competitions, such as 1st Prize in “Concurso Luso-espanhol” (Fafe), 1st Prize in International Clarinet Competition APC, Golden Prize in Vienna International Music Competition, 1st Prize in North International Music Competition and 1st Prize in “Prémio Jovens Músicos”. In this very competition, he was awarded with three more prizes, the Young Musician of the Year (“Maestro Silva Pereira Prize”), European Union of Music Competitions for Youth Prize, and “Prémio Círculo Richard Wagner”.
As far as his orchestral experience is concerned, he took part in Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (2013-2017), Estágio Gulbenkian para Orquestra (2017 and 2018), Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (2016 and 2018), Neue Philhamornie München (2018) and Schweizer Jugendsinfonieorchester (2018). He also collaborated with Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 2019 he won the academy position in Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and 1st Soloist co-principal in Orquestra Gulbenkian. He is currently studying in Hochschule für Musik Basel in Switzerland with François Benda.
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Raquel Saraiva
Bassoon
Raquel Saraiva began her bassoon studies in Coimbra with José Pedro Figueiredo. She graduated from ESMAE, where she studied with H. Kesteman and Pedro Silva. She completed her Master’s degree at Lübeck Musikhochschule with Pierre Martens. As part of the Erasmus programme, she attended the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where she studied with Dag Jensen. She is currently studying for a postgraduate degree at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Marco Postinghel.
She has played with various orchestras, including: Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, European Union Youth Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Bamberg Symphony, Philharmonisches Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck, NDR Symphony Hamburg, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. She has been an academician of the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony and a Gulbenkian Foundation grant-holder. She has won awards at the Prémio Jovens Músicos (Young Musicians Award), the 5th International Academic Oboe and Bassoon Competition Łódź and the Estoril National Competition. From 2014 to 2018 she was Soloist B in the orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. She has been 2nd Soloist of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2018.
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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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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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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