Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
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- Conductor
- Violin
- Soprano
- Tenor
- Baritone
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Gulbenkian Choir
Coro Gulbenkian was founded in 1964 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as a full symphonic body of around 100 singers. The choir joins the Orquestra Gulbenkian and other orchestras to perform Classical, Romantic and Contemporary choral-symphonic repertoire, but can also perform a cappella. It has performed – and often premiered – many 20th century works by Portuguese and international composers.
Coro Gulbenkian has been invited to collaborate with major international orchestras, under the direction of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Colin Davis, John Nelson, Emmanuel Krivine, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Frans Brüggen, Franz Welser-Möst, Gerd Albrecht, Michael Gielen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, René Jacobs and Leonard Slatkin, among others.
Besides its regular season of concerts in Lisbon and frequent national tours, Coro Gulbenkian has repeatedly toured Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Uruguay.
Coro Gulbenkian has recorded extensively for Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, Cascavelle, Musifrance, as well as FNAC-Music, performing a wide range of repertoire, from Early-Renaissance polyphony to Xenakis. Several of these albums received international awards.
Michel Corboz was the Principal Conductor between 1969 and 2019. Jorge Matta and Inês Tavares Lopes are currently the Associate and Assistant conductors, respectively.
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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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Daniel Lozakovich
Violin
Daniel Lozakovich, whose music-making leaves both critics and audiences spellbound, has become one of today’s most sought-after violinists.
The 2025/26 season will mark a series of major debuts and high-profile engagements. He will appear with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä on tour in Korea, followed by performances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Orquesta de Castilla y León. He will tour Europe with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and close collaborator Tarmo Peltokoski and will reunite with Nathalie Stutzmann at Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In 2026, he begins a residency with São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. A highlight of the season comes in March 2026, when Lozakovich is the dedicatee and creator of Pascal Dusapin’s Second Violin Concerto, premiering at Fondation Vuitton with Ensemble Utopia conducted by Teodor Currentzis.
Daniel Lozakovich regularly performs with leading orchestras such as Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco orchestras, BBC Symphony at BBC Proms, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Budapest Festival, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestres National et Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala in Teatro Alla Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Swedish Radio Symphony and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Lucerne Festival, Sydney Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic. He regularly performs with eminent conductors such as Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andris Nelsons, Ádám Fischer, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Nathalie Stutzmann, Neeme Järvi, Valery Gergiev, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Vasily Petrenko, Tarmo Peltokoski, Lahav Shani, Lorenzo Viotti, Kazuki Yamada, Fabien Gabel, Osmo Vänskä and Rafael Payare.
As a highly sought-after recitalist, he has made appearances in historical venues such as Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Tonhalle Zürich, Victoria Hall Geneva, Conservatorio G. Verdi Milan, The Mariinsky Theatre and more. On tour, he has regularly appeared in esteemed concert halls such as Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Konzerthaus Wien. Lozakovich is a regular at international music festivals, including Verbier Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Sommets musicaux de Gstaad, Festival de Pâques – Aix-en-Provence, Tanglewood Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, among many others.
As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Klaus Mäkelä, Yuja Wang, Emanuel Ax, Ivry Gitlis, Alexander Kantorow, Sergei Babayan, Martin Fröst, the brothers Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, Alexandre Kantorow, Behzod Abduraimov, and David Fray.
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Olga Heikkilä
Soprano
Lyric Finnish soprano Olga Heikkilä is an opera singer whose repertoire ranges from Renaissance to Contemporary Music. Heikkilä s enjoying an international career and in recent years has performed at the San Francisco Opera (2024), the Royal Opera Covent Garden (2023), the Dutch National Opera (2023), the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival (2019) and the Berlin State Opera (2017). Olga Heikkilä will be working next to Joyce DiDonato at the Metropolitan Opera on great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s final opera Innocence in April 2026. This masterpiece directed by Simon Stone was greeted upon its 2021 premiere by awestruck reviews and hailed as “completely exhilarating” (The New York Times), “a modern masterpiece” (The Telegraph).
Heikkilä’s voice has inspired several Finnish composers and she has both premiered and commissioned many contemporary works. Her singing in collaboration with the varied finest musicians of our time has been recorded and published with AMC Classical, Naxos Sweden, SibaRecords, Kairos and Ondine.
Heikkilä has sung numerous roles in traditional opera repertoire, baroque operas as well as experimental contemporary world premieres. Her soprano voice has achieved special success in such roles as Alcina by G. F. Handel, Ilia/Idomeneo by W. A. Mozart, Adina/L'elisir d'amore by Geatano Donizetti, Anne Trulove/The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky and Agnes/Written on Skin by George Benjamin. Heikkilä has worked with stage directors including Simon Stone, Andrea Breth and Kasper Holten; and with conductors including Susanna Mälkki, Michael Boder, Ingo Metzmacher, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dima Slobodeniouk and Sakari Oramo. Heikkilä has received her education from the Helsinki Conservatory, Sibelius Academy and the Royal Danish Opera Academy. Heikkilä has won several international competition prizes and has been granted national prizes for her artistic work by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and Pro Musica Foundation among others. ”Heikkilä possesses a powerful soprano that speaks like a new year’s fireworks. What we met was nothing but the present-day Finnish music miracle.” (Bo Levander, Jönköping Press 2018)
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Edgaras Montvidas
Tenor
Lithuanian tenor Edgaras Montvidas, whom Le Figaro exclaimed “'is’ Werther, as soon as he makes his entrance, both physically and vocally. The amber colour of his voice is immediately appealing, with a melancholy hue that attaches itself to the character, in both the power and the nuance” was educated in Vilnius before joining the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
In the 2025/26 season, Edgaras Montvidas will sing Andres in Wozzeck in concert with Sir Simon Rattle and the Bayerische Rundfunks Orchester, perform Laca in Jenůfa with Opéra de Montreal, Count Vaudémont in Iolanta with Finnish National Opera and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opéra de Toulon. In concert, he returns to Vilnius, first as the headliner of the 50th Birthday Concert at the Lithuanian National Opera house in Vilnius, and later, as the title role in Lohengrin with the Lithuanian State Symphony, as well as a role debut as Cavarodossi in Tosca with the Pažaislis Music Festival.
In recent past seasons, Edgaras Montvidas sang Steva in Jenůfa at the Staatsoper Berlin; Alwa in Lulu with Theater an der Wien; Zürich Opernhaus, Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and Opéra de Lausanne as Don José in Carmen; the Bregenzer Festspiele as Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly; Norwegian National Opera as Lensky in Eugene Onegin; and Stravinsky’s Perséphone with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Moreover, he performed Boris in Katya Kabanová with Staatsoper Hamburg as well as with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic conducted by Karina Canellakis; Erik in Der fliegende Holländer with Opera North; Monteverdi Madrigals in a ballet production at Opernhaus Zürich conducted by Riccardo Minasi; Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Dutch National Opera (DVD) and Oper Frankfurt; Grigori in Boris Godunov in a new production by Barrie Kosky for his debut at Opernhaus Zürich; and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the title role of La Clemenza di Tito. Finally, he performed the title role in the world première of Egmont by Christian Jost at the Theater an der Wien; the title role in Werther and Pinkerton with Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy; the title role in Les contes d’Hoffmann for Komische Oper Berlin; Flamand in Capriccio with La Monnaie, Brussels; Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Semperoper Dresden; and Anatol in Vanessa with Glyndebourne Festival.
Concert highlights have included Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Pierre Boulez; the Shepherd in Szymanowski’s King Roger, Le Rossignol and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Charles Dutoit; Szymanowski King Roger with Sir Antonio Pappano for the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome; Verdi Requiem on tour with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Szymanowski’s Harnasie with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle; Ravel’s L’heure espagnole with the LSO; and a concert tour of Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Les Siècles, both conducted by François-Xavier Roth.
Recordings include Hélios in Félicien David’s Herculanum with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and Hervé Niquet; Marcomir in Saint-Saëns’ Les barbares, Gounod’s Le tribut de Zamora and Godard Dante with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and, in August 2020, Saint-Saëns Le timbre d’argent with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth. On DVD, Glyndebourne Festival has released Vanessa and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Madame Butterfly with Bregenzer Festespiele, and with Dutch National Opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
Based in London, Edgaras has been awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts 2023; Lithuanian Order of Merit medal by President Dalia Grybauskaite and has twice been awarded the Lithuanian Theatre Award ‘The Golden Cross of the Stage’ (2009 and 2022).
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Andrey Zhilikhovsky
Baritone
Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky completed his studies in choral conducting at the Stefan Nyaga Musical College in Chișinău. Whilst at college he also studied the voice and upon graduation was granted a place at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St Petersburg.
He was a finalist in the St. Petersburg International Vocal Compeititon (2007) and went on to win third prize in the Obraztsova International Competition for Young Singers (2009) and third prize at the Maria Bieshu International Vocal Competition.
Andrey was a soloist of the Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg, performing roles including Belcore (L’elisir d’amore, Schaunard (La bohème), Robert (Iolanta), The Prince (Cinderella), Silvano (Un ballo in Maschera), Baron (La Traviata) and Dancairo (Carmen). He made his debut with the Latvian National Opera as Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia in 2011. In 2012 he joined the Young Artist Programme of the Bolshoi Theatre, with performances there including the title role of Eugene Onegin, Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Falke (Die Fledermaus), Guglielmo (Così fan Tutte) and Marcello (La Bohème).
Performing internationally at the world’s most prestigious opera houses, Andrey’s highlights include Bayerische Staatsoper in L’elisir d’amore, Opéra de Paris in Iolanta, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in Betrothal in a Monastery under Daniel Barenboim, Glyndebourne in Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Don Giovanni, Washington National Opera and Metropolitan Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia, as well as Opera di Roma and Komische Opera Berlin/Edinburgh International Festival as Conte Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro and Liceu Barcelona as Yeletsky in Pique Dame. Andrey made his long-awaited UK recital debut the 2018/19 season with accompanist Iain Burnside in the Russian Song Series. He returned there with Iain Burnside again in 2024, for a recital of Russian repertoire alongside soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan.
Recent performances include a new production of Sadko by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Bolshoi, Cosi fan tutte for Washington National Opera, as well as Andrej Bolkonski in War and Peace for Budapest Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper (new production). He has also featured at the Teatro Regio Torino, Metropolitan Opera and Royal Opera House as Marcello in La bohème. The 24-25 season saw Andrey make his debut at Finnish National Opera performing as Rodrigo in Don Carlo. Later in the season, he featured as Don Pedro in Donizetti’s Maria Padilla (concert version) at Teatro de la Maestranza, made his Salzburger Festspiele debut as Achilla in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, and also returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
The 25-26 season sees Andrey make a series of house debuts including Dutch National Opera as Lionel in Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans, Grand Théâtre de Genève as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and Wiener Staatsoper as Marcello in La bohème. He also returns to the Royal Opera and Ballet London as Conte Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro.
Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Sergei Rachmaninov
* Due to health reasons, Mihails Čuļpajevs is replaced by Edgaras Montvidas.
Profoundly original and technically demanding, Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra found it difficult to gain a foothold in the concert repertoire. Written with the young violinist Iosif Kotek in mind, it was eventually premiered by Adolf Brodsky, the first musician to publicly overcome the challenges posed by the score. In this programme, directed by Hannu Lintu, we will also hear The Bells, Rachmaninov’s choral-symphonic masterpiece inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same name.
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