Mahler's 4th
Gulbenkian Orchestra
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Date
- 20:00 / Cancelled 20:00 / Sold out Thursday, 20:00
- 19:00 / Cancelled 19:00 / Sold out Friday, 19:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThis concert will be broadcast live here on 7 November at 19:00 (GMT).
Pricing
25% – Under 30
10% – Over 65
Cartão Gulbenkian:
50% – Under 30
20% – Over 65
10% – 30 to 65
- Conductor
- Soprano
- Piano
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Gulbenkian Orchestra
In 1962, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation decided to establish a permanent orchestral ensemble. Originally with only twelve musicians (strings and continuo) it was named “Orquestra de Câmara Gulbenkian”. This collective was successively enlarged and today the “Orquestra Gulbenkian” (the name it has adopted since 1971) has a permanent body of sixty instrumentalists, a number that can be expanded depending on the repertoire.
This structure allows the Gulbenkian Orchestra to interpret works from the Baroque and Classical periods, a significant part of 19th century orchestral literature and much of the music of the 20th century, including works belonging to the current repertoire of the traditional symphonic orchestras. In each season, the orchestra performs on a regular series of concerts at the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium in Lisbon, where it has had the opportunity of working together with some of leading names of the world of music (conductors and soloists). It has also performed on numerous locations all over Portugal, in an effort to decentralize music and culture.
The orchestra has been constantly expanding its activities in the international level, performing in Europe, Asia Africa, and the Americas. In the recording field, Orquestra Gulbenkian is associated to labels as Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Teldec, Erato, Adès, Nimbus, Lyrinx, Naïve and Pentatone, among others, and this activity was recognized with several international prizes.
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Hannu Lintu
Music Director
“Dynamic and sharp on the podium” (Bachtrack) and with an “extreme clarity of purpose, every detail worth noting” (Los Angeles Times), Hannu Lintu maintains his reputation as one of the world’s finest conductors. This season Lintu continues his tenures as Music Director of Orquestra Gulbenkian and Chief Conductor of Finnish National Opera and Ballet, proving himself a master of both symphonic and operatic repertoire, as well as beginning his tenures as Artistic Partner of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the International Sibelius Festival.
Last season also saw Lintu’s appointment as Music Director of Singapore Symphony Orchestra from 2026/27, where he will appear this season for several performances, including for Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Shostakovich’s 7th Leningrad Symphony. Other highlights include returns to the BBC, St Louis, Toronto, Baltimore and Detroit Symphonies, as well as productions of Strauss’ Elektra and a world premiere of Sebastian Fagerlund’s The Morning Star at Finnish National Opera.
Symphonic highlights of recent years have seen Lintu conduct the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic (including an immediate re-invitation from the orchestra to perform at Bravo! Vail Festival), Berliner Philharmoniker, The Cleveland Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Radio France, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, London Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, St Louis Symphony, and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.
As an expert in both operatic as well as symphonic repertoire, Lintu’s recent opera highlights have included Enescu’s Œdipe with the Vienna Symphony at Bregenz Festspiele, Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at Opera de Paris and Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at Bayerische Staatsoper as a guest conductor, as well as multiple productions at Finnish National Opera and Ballet, including a recent multi-season Ring Cycle, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, a choregraphed reimagining of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Puccini’s Turandot, Richard Strauss’ Salome, and Britten’s Billy Budd.
Lintu has made several recordings for Ondine, BIS Records, Naxos, Avie Records and Hyperion Records. His diverse discography comprises recordings of Magnus Lindberg’s orchestral works, the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Stephen Hough, and Lutoslawski’s Symphonies Nos. 1-4, all with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His often-gilded work boasts two International Classical Music Awards and several nominations for Gramophone and GRAMMY awards in recognition of recording projects such as Bartók’s Violin Concertos with Christian Tetzlaff, works by Sibelius featuring Anne Sofie von Otter, Rautavaara’s Kaivos, and the Violin Concertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès with Augustin Hadelich and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Lintu studied cello and piano at the Sibelius Academy, where he also later studied conducting with Jorma Panula. He participated in masterclasses with Myung-Whun Chung at L’Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and took first prize at the Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen in 1994.
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Faustine de Monès
Soprano
Faustine de Monès is an award-winning soprano praised by The Guardian for her “emotive expressivity and natural presence”. She has performed on international stages including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Barbican Centre, the Israeli Opera House, the Grand Théâtre de Limoges, the Aldeburgh Festival and the Ravinia Music Festival, and worked with conductors such as Lionel Bringuier, Stephen Barlow, Christian Curnyn, Paul Nadler and Joseph Colaneri.
Forthcoming and recent engagements include her debut for Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen for Opera de Rouen, Crobyle in Massenet’s Thaïs for Opera Toulon, Claude Vivier's Lonely Child for the Avanti Festival in Finland, and Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto for Festival Eure in France.
Recent engagements include Saariaho’s Die Aussicht and Changing Light for both the Festival Musica in Strasbourg and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Unsuk Chin's Le Silence des sirens with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, and Saariaho's Die Aussicht with the Ardeo Quartet at the 2023 Victoires de la Musique Classique, broadcast on French TV and radio.
Also performed recently are Saariaho’s Cinq Reflets with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, two roles in Marc-Olivier Dupin’s Robert le Cochon et les Kidnappeurs for Opera Comique Paris, and Saariaho’s Château de l’âme with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
She was a critically-acclaimed Soeur Constance in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at Theater Aachen in Germany, conducted by Justus Thorau, and performed the same role at Theater Nordhausen.
Faustine has appeared in recital at Opera Grand Avignon, and soloist at the opening gala of both the 2021 and 2022 Chorégies d’Orange festival, broadcast live on French television. She also sang Puccini at the Invalides with Clément Mao-Takacs and his Secession Orchestra, broadcast live on Radio Classique.
Hailing from Paris, Faustine earned a first-class bachelor’s degree with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and her MM and Artist Diploma in Opera Performance at Mannes College of Music in New York. She made her operatic debut at the Opéra-Théâtre de Limoges in Isabelle Aboulker’s Les Fables enchantées.
Faustine won the contemporary prize of the 2018 Enescu International Singing Competition, the first prize as well as the audience prize in the 2017 Vivonne International Competition, and the duo prize at the 2017 Toulouse Mélodie Française Competition.
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Jan Lisiecki
Piano
Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki looks back on a career spanning a decade and a half on the world’s greatest stages. He works closely with the foremost conductors and orchestras of our time, performing over a hundred concerts a year.
The 25-26 season sees him returning to Rotterdam Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin as well as San Francisco Symphony and Houston Symphony, among others.
In August 2025, he will conclude the renowned Seoul International Music Festival at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea with a Beethoven concert and a solo recital with his highly acclaimed Preludes program, which was recently released by Deutsche Grammophon. A further 30 piano recitals take him across Europe and North America, including the Philharmonie Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus, Palau Barcelona, Koerner Hall Toronto and the National Arts Centre Ottawa. Continuing his collaboration with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which he led from the piano in a tour of several Beethoven cycles in the previous season, he will perform another Beethoven cycle at the Enescu and Merano Festivals.
Recent return invitations include the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Staatskapelle Dresden. He made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in spring 2024. Lisiecki is a fixture at major summer festivals across Europe and North America, has performed at the Salzburg Festival and recently made his third appearance at the BBC Proms. His previous recital programme was celebrated in over 50 cities around the globe.
Jan Lisiecki was offered an exclusive recording contract by Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 15. Since then, he has recorded nine albums which have been awarded with the JUNO Award, ECHO Klassik, Gramophone Critics' Choice, Diapason d'Or and Edison Klassiek.
At 18, he received both the Leonard Bernstein Award and Gramophone’s Young Artist Award, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the latter. He was named UNICEF Ambassador to Canada in 2012.
Alban Berg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gustav Mahler
The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, a precocious talent, signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon at the age of fifteen. From then on, he collected awards and honours, including Gramophone ‘s Young Artist Award and the Leonard Bernstein Award. On his return to Gulbenkian Music, he will perform Mozart’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 9 under the conductor Hannu Lintu. The programme also includes Mahler’s 4th Symphony and Alban Berg’s Der Wein, featuring the experienced and expressive voice of French soprano Faustine de Monès.
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