Shostakovich's 10th
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 on 14 March at 19:00 GMT.
Pricing
25% – Under 30
10% – Over 65
Cartão Gulbenkian:
50% – Under 30
15% – Over 65
- Conductor
- Violin
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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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Krzysztof Urbański
Conductor
Highlights of Krzysztof Urbański’s 24/25 season include returns to the Münchner Philharmoniker, Bayerische Staatsorchester and Beethoven's "Fidelio" production at the Opernhaus Zürich. Moreover he returns to the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker and debuts with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra.
Urbański appeared as a guest conductor with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, among others.
Krzysztof Urbański served as Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (2011-2021) and as Chief Conductor and Artistic Leader of the Trondheim Symphony (2010-2017). In 2017 he was appointed Honorary Guest Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony and Opera. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (2012-2016) and Principal Guest Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester (2015-2021). In November 2022 Urbański was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. From the 24/25 season he holds the post of Chief Conductor of the Berner Symphonieorchester and Music and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic.
With the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester he recorded albums of Lutosławski’s works, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and R. Strauss’ works; all on Alpha Classics. His discography also includes Chopin’s small pieces for piano and orchestra with Jan Lisiecki and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon which received an ECHO Klassik Award and Martinů’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Sol Gabetta and the Berliner Philharmoniker recorded for Sony.
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Alina Ibragimova
Violin
Performing music from baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova is recognised for the ”immediacy and honesty” (The Guardian) of her performances.
The 2024/25 season sees Alina perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, City of Birmingham Symphony and Swedish Chamber Orchestra, working with Vladimir Jurowski, Hannu Lintu, Anja Bihlmaier, Michael Sanderling, Iván Fischer and Krzysztof Urbański. She also continues her partnership with pianist Cédric Tiberghien for recital tours of the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.
Over the last two seasons Alina has performed concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Helsinki Philharmonic, working with Robin Ticciati, Ryan Bancroft, Maxim Emelyanychev and Daniel Harding. She was also artist-in-residence with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and toured Europe with the Scottish Chamber Orchester and Kammerorchester Basel.
In recital, Alina regularly performs at London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and at the Royal Albert Hall where she performed Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin at part of the BBC Proms. Alina is a founding member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – one of the most sought-after period ensembles.
Alina’s discography ranges from Bach Concertos with Arcangelo through to Prokofiev Sonatas with Steven Osborne. Her 2020 recording of Shostakovich’s Violin Concertos won a Gramophone Award, while her 2021 recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices topped the classical album charts on its release. Her most recent recording is Telemann’s Fantasias for Solo Violin.
Born in Russia in 1985, Alina attended the Moscow Gnesin School, The Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College of Music, studying with Natasha Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolitch and Christian Tetzlaff. An alumnus of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme, Alina’s many accolades include two Royal Philharmonic Society awards and an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours List.
Alina performs on a c.1775 Anselmo Bellosio violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel.
Sergei Prokofiev
Dmitri Shostakovitch
Considered one of the greatest violinists of our time, Alina Ibragimova plays with an immediacy and honesty that “has the curious ability to collapse any sense of distance between performer and listener” (The Guardian), as if the notes she plays were addressed exclusively to each listener, in a sharing of sublime musical intimacy. Highly praised for her recording of Prokofiev’s Violin Sonatas, the violinist returns to this sublime repertoire at Gulbenkian Music under the direction of Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbański, who conducts Shostakovich’s powerful and visceral 10th Symphony in the second part.
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