Viola player, Diemut Poppen, a teacher at the Queen Sofía College of Music, in Madrid, has studied with leading musicians and conductors such as Kim Kashkashian and Yuri Bashmet. She has been a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Orchestra Mozart. In 2010, building on her experience in chamber music festivals in Germany, Switzerland and Spain, she founded the Cantabile Festival in Lisbon, of which she is the artistic director, sponsored by the Goethe Institut and Gulbenkian Music. Soloists from the Gulbenkian Orchestra join the international soloists invited by the festival for each edition.

Solistas do Festival Cantabile

Christel Lee Violino
Francisco Lima Santos Violino
Diemut Poppen Viola
Anna Paliwoda Viola
Ivan Monighetti Violoncelo
Paulo Gaio Lima Violoncelo

Solistas da Orquestra Gulbenkian

Maria Balbi Violino
Maria José Laginha Violino
Varoujan Bartikian Violoncelo

Franz Schubert
Quinteto para Cordas, em Dó maior, D. 956

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Octeto para Cordas, em Mi bemol maior, op. 20