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Presentation
The origins of the orchestra date back to 1947, when the Orquestra Sinfónica do Conservatório de Música do Porto was formed, later performing under different names.
Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música works regularly with well known conductors such as Olari Elts, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Elihau Inbal, Michail Jurowski, Christoph König (Principal Conductor from 2009-2014), Reinbert de Leeuw, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, Emilio Pomàrico, Peter Rundel, Michael Sanderling, Vassily Sinaisky, Tugan Sokhiev, John Storgårds, Joseph Swensen, Ilan Volkov, Antoni Wit, Christian Zacharias and Lothar Zagrosek. Soloists who have collaborated with the orchestra include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Pedro Burmester, Joyce Didonato, Alban Gerhardt, Natalia Gutman, Viviane Hagner, Alina Ibragimova, Steven Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian, Christian Lindberg, Felicity Lott, António Meneses, Midori, Truls Mørk, Kristine Opolais, Lise de la Salle, Benjamin Schmid, Simon Trpčeski, Thomas Zehetmair and the Arditti Quartet. It has worked with some of the foremost contemporary composers, from Emmanuel Nunes to Jonathan Harvey, Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg, Pascal Dusapin, Luca Francesconi, Unsuk Chin, Peter Eötvös, Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Heinz Holliger, and the british composer Harrison Birtwistle in 2017.
Apart from performing around fifty concerts per year at Casa da Música, it is increasingly seen outside Porto, having visited in recent seasons Vienna, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Valladolid, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Brazil and Lisbon.
In recent seasons the orchestra has performed all of Mahler’s symphonies, Prokofiev’s symphonies, Bethoven’s piano concertos and Rachmaninov’s piano concertos. In 2011, the recording “Follow the Songlines” won the jazz vocal category at the prestigious Victoires de la musique awards in France. 2013 saw the release on the Naxos label of the piano concertos by Lopes-Graça. Gramophone has included the CD featuring works by Pascal Dusapin, performed by Orquestra Sinfónica and Remix Ensemble Casa da Música, in its Critics’ Choice 2013. New CDs with live recordings were released the following years featuring works by Luca Francesconi (2014), Unsuk Chin (2015) and Georges Aperghis (2017). In 2017 the orchestra performs all of Brahms’ symphonies and key works such as Mozart’s Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem, Harrison Birtwistle’s Earth Dances and James Dillon’s Via Sacra. It also presents the Portuguese premieres of new works by Magnus Lindberg and Pascal Dusapin commissioned by Casa da Música.
The origins of the orchestra date back to 1947, when the Orquestra Sinfónica do Conservatório de Música do Porto was formed, later performing under different names. It has 94 permanent members, which enables it to perform the entire symphonic repertoire from the classical period to the 21st century. The orchestra has been part of Fundação Casa da Música since July 2006.
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Baldur Brönnimann
conductor
Principal conductor
Baldur Brönnimann has established himself as one of the finest conductors of contemporary music across the world. He has worked at the highest level with composers such as John Adams, Saariaho, Birtwistle, Chin, Lachenmann, Lindberg, Haas, has performed at festivals such as the BBC Proms, Wien Modern, Darmstadt, Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center and has conducted significant performances of major works by composers such as Ligeti, Romitelli, Boulez, Vivier and Zimmermann. A conductor of great flexibility, with a broad-minded approach to programme-building and music-making, he believes strongly in the importance of educational and outreach opportunities, and the need to question the traditional boundaries of classical music. He is Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and Principal Conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta.
Highlights of Brönnimann’s 2018/19 season include a return to the Seoul Philharmonic, and debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg in the orchestra’s Rainy Days contemporary music festival, with Staatskapelle Weimar, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the orchestras of Valencia, Galicia and Asturias, and with Tapiola Sinfonietta (Finland). He will also be Artistic Director of the 2019 Avanti! Festival in Finland. In past seasons, highlights have included projects with the Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony and Bergen Philharmonic orchestras amongst others and more recently debuts with the Vienna Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Danish National Symphony, WDR Symphony, Aurora and Munich Chamber orchestras. He also works regularly with Klangforum Wien both in Vienna and on tour.
In the opera house, Brönnimann has conducted Ligeti Le Grand Macabre at English National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin and Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires) in both the La Fura dels Baus and Barrie Kosky productions, John Adams Death of Klinghoffer at English National Opera, Saariaho L’amour de loin at the Bergen Festival and Norwegian Opera and Romitelli Index of Metals with Barbara Hannigan at the Theater an der Wien. At Argentina’s Teatro Colón he has also conducted Schoenberg Erwartung, Szymanowski Hagith, and Lachenmann The Little Match Girl with the composer as narrator and Zimmermann Die Soldaten.
As Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and Basel Sinfonietta, Brönnimann continues to conduct programmes combining contemporary and unknown works with standard repertoire in typically unexpected ways. Between 2011-2015 Brönnimann was Artistic Director of Norway’s leading contemporary music ensemble BIT20, and from 2008-2012 Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in Bogotá.
Born in Switzerland, Brönnimann trained at the City of Basel Music Academy and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he was subsequently appointed Visiting Tutor in Conducting, and he now lives in Madrid.
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Leopold Hager
conductor
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Musicians
Composition Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música
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Zofia Wóycicka
section leader - Violin
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James Dahlgren
honorary section leader - Violin
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Radu Ungureanu
assistant section leader - Violin
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Alan Guimarães
Violin
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Andras Burai
Violin
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Emília Vanguelova
Violin
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Evandra Gonçalves
Violin
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Ianina Khmelik
Violin
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José Despujols
Violin
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Maria Kagan
Violin
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Roumiana Badeva
Violin
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Tünde Hadadi
Violin
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Vadim Feldblioum
Violin
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Vladimir Grinman
Violin
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Ana Madalena Ribeiro
Head of section - Violin
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Nancy Frederick
Co-principal - Violin
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Tatiana Afanasieva
sub-principal - Violin
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Domingos Lopes
Violin
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Francisco P. de Sousa
Violin
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José Paulo Jesus
Violin
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José Sentieiro
Violin
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Lilit Davtyan
Violin
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Mariana Costa
Violin
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Nikola Vasiljev
Violin
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Paul Almond
Violin
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Pedro Rocha
Violin
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Mateusz Stasto
Head of section - viola
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Joana Pereira
Co-principal - viola
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Anna Gonera
sub-principal - viola
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Biliana Chamlieva
viola
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Emília Alves
viola
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Francisco Moreira
viola
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Hazel Veitch
viola
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Jean Loup Lecomte
viola
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Luís Norberto Silva
viola
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Rute Azevedo
viola
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Theo Ellegiers
viola
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Nikolai Gimaletdinov
Head of section - cello
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Vicente Chuaqui
Co-principal - cello
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Feodor Kolpashnikov
sub-principal - cello
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Aaron Choi
cello
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Bruno Cardoso
cello
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Gisela Neves
cello
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Hrant Yeranosyan
cello
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Michal Kiska
cello
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Sharon Kinder
cello
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Florian Pertzborn
Chefe de naipe interino, Co-principal - double bass
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Altino Carvalho
double bass
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Joel Azevedo
double bass
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Nadya Choi
double bass
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Slawomir Marzec
double bass
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Tiago Pinto Ribeiro
double bass
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Paulo Barros
Head of section - flute
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Ana Maria Ribeiro
Co-principal - flute
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Alexander Auer
sub-principal - flute
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Angelina Rodrigues
sub-principal - flute
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Aldo Salvetti
Head of section - Oboe
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Tamás Bartók
Co-principal - Oboe
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Eldevina Materula
sub-principal - Oboe
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Roberto Henriques
sub-principal - Oboe
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Luís Silva
Head of section - clarinet
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Carlos Alves
Co-principal - clarinet
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Gergely Suto
sub-principal - clarinet
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João Moreira
sub-principal - clarinet
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Gavin Hill
Head of section - bassoon
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Robert Glassburner
Co-principal - bassoon
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Pedro Silva
sub-principal - bassoon
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Vasily Suprunov
sub-principal - bassoon
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Bohdan Sebestik
Co-principal - tube
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Eddy Tauber
Co-principal - tube
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Hugo Carneiro
sub-principal - tube
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José Bernardo Silva
sub-principal - tube
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Sérgio Pacheco
Head of section - trumpet
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Ivan Crespo
Co-principal - trumpet
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Luís Granjo
sub-principal - trumpet
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Rui Brito
sub-principal - trumpet
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Severo Martinez
Head of section - trombone
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Dawid Seidenberg
Co-principal - trombone
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Nuno Martins
sub-principal - trombone
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Sérgio Carolino
Co-principal - tuba
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Jean-François Lézé
timpaneiro solista - eardrums
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Bruno Costa
Co-principal - eardrums
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Nuno Simões
sub-principal - eardrums
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Paulo Oliveira
sub-principal - eardrums
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Ilaria Vivan
Co-principal - Harp
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