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Horácio Ferreira started playing the clarinet at the age of 8 and has emerged as one of the most talented clarinettists of the new Portuguese generation. He received his diploma from the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo in Porto in the class of António Saiote, studied in Madrid with Enrique Pérez Piquer and Michel Arrignon at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia and is currently studying in Paris with Nicolas Baldeyrou. Horácio Ferreira has been generously supported throughout by the Albéniz Foundation, the Carolina Foundation and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Horácio Ferreira has been a prizewinner of numerous international competitions: in Portugal he was awarded First Prize at “Terras de La Salette” Competition and became the first Portuguese clarinettist to win both juniors and seniors divisions at the 28th edition of the “Radio & Television Competition – Prémio Jovens Músicos”, where he was also awarded with the Maestro Silva Pereira Prize for “Young Musician of the Year 2014”. At the Debussy International Clarinet Competition in Paris he was awarded for the best interpretation of Debussy´s Première Rhapsodie, won an honourable mention at the 67th Prague Spring Competition and recently won First Prize at the J. Pakalnis International Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania.
As a soloist he has played with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Casa da Música Oporto Symphony Orchestra, XXI Orchestra, Cascais and Oeiras Orchestra, Filarmonia das Beiras Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Musica Humana Orchestra. He has recorded “Submundo” by Sara Claro and has performed in the USA, Canada, Brazil and China as well as throughout Europe.
Upcoming projects include several concerts as a soloist with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, chamber music with the Novus String Quartet and solo recitals as well as a CD recording.
2016/2017 season
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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.
- Remix Ensemble Casa da Música
Remix Ensemble is Casa da Música’s contemporary music group. Since its debut in 2000, the group has already performed the world premieres of more than eighty five works.
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Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música was formed in 2006 to perform Baroque music from a historically-informed perspective.
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Coro Casa da Música gave its first concert in 2009 under the direction of Paul Hillier, its principal conductor.
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Em 2007 a Fundação Casa da Música deu novo impulso à política de fomento à criação musical com a introdução de residências artísticas e pedagógicas dos mais prestigiados compositores dos nossos dias, bem como a oportunidade aos compositores portugueses para que as suas obras tenham palco e divulgação internacional.
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