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
Ticket collection, subject to room capacity (max. 2 per person):
In-person – 2 hours before
Online – 2 days before (Cartão Gulbenkian Mais) and 1 day before (Cartão Gulbenkian), from 10:00.
- Violin
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Pedro Costa Piano
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Ana Beatriz Manzanilla
Violin
The Venezuelan violinist Ana Beatriz Manzanilla has been a member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 1996. She was born in Barquisimeto and was trained in Venezuela's Youth Orchestra System "El Sistema" with José Francisco del Castillo. She also studied with Ron Rogoff and attended the European Mozart Academy in Krakow (Poland). She has followed a diverse professional career, including performances in recitals and concerts. She has played with the most important orchestras in her own country, such as the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Municipal Orchestra of Caracas, as well as the National Orchestra of Panama, the Munich Youth Orchestra and the Rhodanien Philharmonic Orchestra (in France). In Portugal, she has worked with Gulbenkian Orchestra, Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra do Algarve, Sinfonietta de Lisboa and Orquestra Clássica do Centro. She has performed as a soloist in several countries in Latin America and Europe.
She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Camerata Atlântica and teaches violin at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. She has devoted a great deal of her work to young people, particularly within the Projeto Geração. She joined the Orquestra Estágio Gulbenkian in 2013 as a tutor. In 2015, she created the Concurso Nacional de Cordas Vasco Barbosa, of which she is the director. She also works in preparing the string sections of the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil and the Nova Ópera de Lisboa.
For several years, she was an assistant concertmaster for the Lara Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela). She was also concertmaster of the Orquestra do Norte. She has recorded two albums with duos for violin and viola, and with the Gulbenkian Orchestra she recorded Mozart's Concerto for Violin in G major, in the year in which the orchestra celebrated its 50th anniversary.
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Maria José Laginha
Violin
Maria José Laginha was born in Lisbon. She studied at the Fundação Musical dos Amigos das Crianças and the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave (Artave) with Filomena Cardoso, Leonor Prado, Alberto Gaio Lima and Suzanne Lidegran. With a scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, she completed her studies with Aníbal Lima at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra. She won the Prémio Jovens Músicos in 2005. She has attended masterclasses by Christoph Schikedanz (Kissingen Sommer), Roman Nodel, Igor Oistrakh, Igor Volochine, Chistophe Poiget (Rencontres Musicales en Lorraine), Boris Kuniev, Daniel Rowland (Stift International Music Festival), Richard Gwilt (Baroque violin), Alexei Mijlin and Felix Andrievsky.
During her formative years, she joined several youth orchestras, such as the European Union Youth Orchestra and the World Orchestra, and toured worldwide. She also played with the Orquestra Aproarte, Sinfonietta de Lisboa, Lisbon Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa and played solo with the Orquestra Artave, the Filarmonia da Beiras and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. She has been a member of the Camerata Atlântica since its creation in 2013. She was a teacher with the Orquestra Geração. She has been a member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 2007.
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Sara Moreira
Viola
Sara Moreira was born in Vila Nova de Famalicão in 1996 and began her musical studies at the age of 13 at the Escola Profissional e Artística do Vale do Ave in the viola class of Professor António Pereira and Teresa Correia. She later obtained a degree from the University of Minho, working with Mateusz Stasto, and a master's degree in interpretation from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim.She was awarded 3rd prize in the "Paços Premium" Competition (2012) and 2nd prize in the Vila Verde Music Competition (string trio).
As an orchestra member she had the opportunity to collaborate with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto/Casa da Música, Orquestra XXI, Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa, Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa, Orquestra de Guimarães, Sinfonietta de Braga, Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Orquestra da Costa Atlântica, Orquestra Clássica de Espinho, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Picardie, etc.
In the 2020/2021 academic year she was awarded a scholarship from the Fundação GDA. She was a member of the Nürnberger Symphoniker orchestra between 2021 and 2023 as an academist and later with a temporary contract. She is currently ascending the first semester of the postgraduate programme in Orchestra Soloist in Mannheim in the class of Professor Hideko Kobayashi.
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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.
Gabriela Ortiz
Amy Beach
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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