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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.
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 mongst others and has conducted significant performances of major works by composers such as Ligeti, Romitelli, Boulez Vivier and Zimmermann most recently at the BBC Proms and Vienna Konzerthaus. A conductor of great flexibility with a broad-minded approach to programme-building and music-making, he shares his time between the opera house and concert hall, and is always eager to seek out educational and outreach opportunities as part of his work. He is Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and Principal Conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta.

In the 2017/18 season Brönnimann makes several significant debuts. In the US he makes his debut at New York’s Lincoln Center conducting Dark Mirror, Zender’s orchestral reimagining of Schubert’s Winterreise with Ian Bostridge at the Mostly Mozart Festival, and with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra in subscription concerts. In Europe he debuts with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony at the Darmstadt Festival, with WDR Symphony in a programme celebrating the 100th anniversary of Zimmermann’s birth, the Estonian National Symphony orchestra and Orchestre National du Lyon amongst others. In past seasons, highlights have included projects with the Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Bergen Philharmonic amongst others and more recently debuts with the Vienna Radio Symphony, Danish National 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.
- Leopold Hager
  
  conductor
Musicians

Composition Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música
- Zoﬁa Wóycicka
  
  section leader - Violin
- James Dahlgren
  
  honorary section leader - Violin
- Radu Ungureanu
  
  assistant section leader - Violin
- Alan Guimarães
  
  Violin
- Andras Burai
  
  Violin
- Emília Vanguelova
  
  Violin
- Evandra Gonçalves
  
  Violin
- Ianina Khmelik
  
  Violin
- José Despujols
  
  Violin
- Maria Kagan
  
  Violin
- Roumiana Badeva
  
  Violin
- Tünde Hadadi
  
  Violin
- Vadim Feldblioum
  
  Violin
- Vladimir Grinman
  
  Violin
- Ana Madalena Ribeiro
  
  Head of section - Violin
- Nancy Frederick
  
  Co-principal - Violin
- Tatiana Afanasieva
  
  sub-principal - Violin
- Domingos Lopes
  
  Violin
- Francisco P. de Sousa
  
  Violin
- José Paulo Jesus
  
  Violin
- José Sentieiro
  
  Violin
- Lilit Davtyan
  
  Violin
- Mariana Costa
  
  Violin
- Nikola Vasiljev
  
  Violin
- Paul Almond
  
  Violin
- Pedro Rocha
  
  Violin
- Vítor Teixeira
  
  Violin
- Mateusz Stasto
  
  Head of section - viola
- Joana Pereira
  
  Co-principal - viola
- Anna Gonera
  
  sub-principal - viola
- Biliana Chamlieva
  
  viola
- Emília Alves
  
  viola
- Francisco Moreira
  
  viola
- Hazel Veitch
  
  viola
- Jean Loup Lecomte
  
  viola
- Luís Norberto Silva
  
  viola
- Rute Azevedo
  
  viola
- Theo Ellegiers
  
  viola
- Nikolai Gimaletdinov
  
  Head of section - cello
- Vicente Chuaqui
  
  Co-principal - cello
- Feodor Kolpaschnikov
  
  sub-principal - cello
- Aaron Choi
  
  cello
- Bruno Cardoso
  
  cello
- Gisela Neves
  
  cello
- Hrant Yeranosyan
  
  cello
- Michal Kiska
  
  cello
- Sharon Kinder
  
  cello
- Florian Pertzborn
  
  Chefe de naipe interino, Co-principal - double bass
- Altino Carvalho
  
  double bass
- Joel Azevedo
  
  double bass
- Nadya Choi
  
  double bass
- Slawomir Marzec
  
  double bass
- Tiago Pinto Ribeiro
  
  double bass
- Paulo Barros
  
  Head of section - flute
- Ana Maria Ribeiro
  
  Co-principal - flute
- Alexander Auer
  
  sub-principal - flute
- Angelina Rodrigues
  
  sub-principal - flute
- Aldo Salvetti
  
  Head of section - Oboe
- Tamás Bartók
  
  Co-principal - Oboe
- Eldevina Materula
  
  sub-principal - Oboe
- Luís Silva
  
  Head of section - clarinet
- Carlos Alves
  
  Co-principal - clarinet
- Gergely Suto
  
  sub-principal - clarinet
- Gavin Hill
  
  Head of section - bassoon
- Robert Glassburner
  
  Co-principal - bassoon
- Pedro Silva
  
  sub-principal - bassoon
- Vasily Suprunov
  
  sub-principal - bassoon
- Bohdan Sebestik
  
  Co-principal - tube
- Eddy Tauber
  
  Co-principal - tube
- Hugo Carneiro
  
  sub-principal - tube
- José Bernardo Silva
  
  sub-principal - tube
- Sérgio Pacheco
  
  Head of section - trumpet
- Ivan Crespo
  
  Co-principal - trumpet
- Luís Granjo
  
  sub-principal - trumpet
- Rui Brito
  
  sub-principal - trumpet
- Severo Martinez
  
  Head of section - trombone
- Dawid Seidenberg
  
  Co-principal - trombone
- Nuno Martins
  
  sub-principal - trombone
- Sérgio Carolino
  
  Co-principal - tuba
- Jean-François Lézé
  
  timpaneiro solista - eardrums
- Bruno Costa
  
  Co-principal - eardrums
- Nuno Simões
  
  sub-principal - eardrums
- Paulo Oliveira
  
  sub-principal - eardrums
- Ilaria Vivan
  
  Co-principal - Harp
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