Peer Gynt
Sunday Concerts
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Date
- 11:00 / Cancelled 11:00 / Sold out Sunday, 11:00
- 15:00 / Cancelled 15:00 / Sold out Sunday, 15:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThis concert will be broadcast live here on 17 May, at 15:00 (GMT).
Event broadcast live.
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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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Anton Holmer
Conductor
Highly sought after as an emerging and dedicated talent, Anton Holmer is widely recognized for his natural leadership, meticulous work and stylistic sensibility.
This has quickly earned him professional recognition both in his native Sweden and internationally.
Holmer maintains a close relationship with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra where he will return twice during the season 2025-2026. Upcoming highlights include debuts with the Belgian National Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
His previous engagements have also included performances with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Royal Swedish Opera, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Metz, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, and Jönköpings Sinfonietta.
In recent years, Holmer has been working closely with his compatriot and legendary conductor Herbert Blomstedt, both in Sweden and abroad.
Passionate about historically informed performance practice on modern instruments, he has been praised for his interpretations of late eighteenth-century repertoire.
From 2021 to 2023, he served as the Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon, conducting a wide range of repertoire. He has been awarded numerous scholarships from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and received the Crusell Scholarship for promising young conductors in 2021. Holmer was a semi-finalist in the Nicolai Malko Competition with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in 2021, as well as in the London Symphony Orchestra Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in 2018.
Holmer studied conducting at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart under Prof. Per Borin. He further honed his skills through masterclasses with Bernard Haitink and Jorma Panula. Before fully dedicating himself to conducting, Holmer studied organ, piano, and choral conducting at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon. He also holds a master’s degree in organ performance from the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
Proficient in six languages, Holmer is also a passionate craftsman who makes his own conducting batons.
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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.
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, op. 46
Camille Saint-Saëns
Danse macabre, op. 40
Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite, op. 20a (selection)
Paul Dukas
L'Apprenti sorcier
Total approximate duration: 60 min / Concert without intermission
Music can transcend sound to tell stories that mark the imagination. Grieg leads us through the adventures of Peer Gynt, a Norwegian anti-hero who defies the legendary trolls of the Scandinavian forests. Saint-Saëns evokes the dead in a macabre dance to the sound of a violin at midnight. Dukas enchants us with the comic disasters of a young man who dares to play with magic. Finally, Tchaikovsky transports us to the enchanted world of Swan Lake, where love and transformation intertwine in an unforgettable fable.
This concert will be broadcast live in Praia, Luanda and Maputo. This initiative, promoted through the Partnerships with Africa programme, is part of the Gulbenkian Foundation’s 70th anniversary celebrations and aims to bring classical music closer to audiences in these Portuguese-speaking countries. Find out more
Sponsor Gulbenkian Music
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