Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists
Beethoven / Schönberg
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- 20:00 / Cancelled 20:00 / Sold out Monday, 20:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation- Violin
- Violin
- Cello
- Clarinet
- 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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Jeremy Lake
Cello
Jeremy Lake was born in London, UK, and began playing the cello at the age of ten. At fifteen, he joined the National Youth Orchestra and later won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with Joan Dickson and Amanda Truelove. During his time at the RCM, he won several prizes, particularly in chamber music. He was selected to participate in a masterclass with Mstislav Rostropovich and also performed chamber music with him in concert.
After graduating from the RCM, Jeremy pursued further studies with Clive Greensmith, Timothy Hugh, and Johannes Goritzki in Düsseldorf, Germany.
As a freelance musician, he performed with all the major orchestras and ensembles in the UK and was highly active as both a chamber musician and soloist.
In 1998, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal, to join the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra and also became a professor at ANSO, one of the city's leading music conservatories. He later began performing with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and was appointed principal cello of the OML in 2004. Since 2005, he has been a full-time member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. In 2013, he also became a founding member of Camerata Atlântica.
Jeremy continues to perform regularly as a chamber musician and soloist.
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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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Morta Grigaliūnaitė
Piano
Born in 1991, Morta started playing the piano at the age of eight at Pasvalys Music School, where her first teacher was Lolita Trepekūnienė. After having met the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who encouraged her to pursue a career in music, she moved to Vilnius to study at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts with Jūratė Karosaitė. In 2008, Morta entered the Purcell School of Music in the United Kingdom, where she held a scholarship under the Government’s Music and Dance Scheme and studied piano with William Fong. Two years later, she was awarded a full scholarship to study with Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After having graduated with a First Class degree, Morta continued her education with Claudio Martinez Mehner at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and Dmitri Bashkirov at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Morta has been awarded the Mstislav Rostropovich Help and Support Foundation, Michel Sogny Foundation “SOS Talents”, Fundación Albéniz and Yamaha Pianos scholarships. She has won numerous prizes and awards such as 2nd prize in Karlrobert-Kreiten-Klavierwettbewerb, Sterndale Bennett Prize for the best Romantic music recital, 1st prize at the International EPTA Piano Competition in Belgium, 1st prize at the International Sigulda Music Competition in Latvia, Harry Isaacs Piano Trio Prize, Douglas Cameron Chamber Music Prize, special prize for the most artistic performance at the International M. K. Čiurlionis Piano Competition in Lithuania, as well as Dorothy Bryant, Frances Earle, Sydney Kenneth Brindle and Jean Ginsburg awards for outstanding studentship at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
With performances broadcast live in 40 countries through the classical music channel Mezzo, Morta has established herself as an active soloist and chamber musician. Since the release of her debut album in 2019, she continues to receive outstanding reviews for her interpretation of piano works by Grażyna Bacewicz.
Morta first came to public attention in 2005, when she performed at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius at Mstislav Rostropovich’s invitation. Since then, she has appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the National Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, St. Christopher’s Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Georgian State Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra and the Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra. Morta has performed with such distinguished artists as the renowned violin pedagogue Zakhar Bron, former solo oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic Hansjörg Schellenberger and Valentin Erben, a founding member of the Alan Berg Quartet. She has given concerts in various venues including Berliner Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, St. John’s Smith Square, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, National Gallery in London, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Santander, Colston Hall in Bristol, Batumi Centre of Arts in Georgia, Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall in Baku and others. Morta currently holds a teaching position at The Purcell School of Music, Great Britain’s oldest specialist music school.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio No. 3, in C minor, op. 1 no. 3
Arnold Schönberg
Chamber Symphony No. 1, op. 9
(arr. Anton Webern)
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The Gulbenkian Orchestra consists of professional 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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