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"An Ambassador of Portuguese music" Publico (PT)
"Intense but also virtuos, technically impeccable" Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten (DE)
"Warm, pure and beautiful sound" Strings Magazine (USA)


NEWS

January 2020: Return to Lisbon and debut in Berlin

01.12.2019: Next January Bruno Borralhinho returns to Portugal and the podium of the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa to conduct Mozart's symphonies 39, 40 and 41. The concerts will take place on January 10 at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon and on January 11 at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos in Caldas da Rainha. On January 29, Bruno Borralhinho makes his debut as a conductor in the Philharmonie in Berlin with the Deutsches Kammerorchester and works by Mahler, Shostakovich, Luís Freitas Branco and Joly Braga Santos. Further information: Deutsches Kammerorchester - "Melancolia"


Edition Kunzelmann publishes arrangements by Bruno Borralhinho

03.04.2019: The renowned Swiss publisher recently published Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" in the version for cello and piano, Fauré's "Pavane" in the version for string quartet, Albéniz's "Suite Espagnole" in the version for septet as well as Manuel de Falla's "Siete Canciones Populares Españolas" in the version for voice, violin (or clarinet), cello and piano -all edited by Bruno Borralhinho.
More information: Edition Kunzelmann - Bruno Borralhinho


In October: Debut conducting the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra

25.08.2018: Bruno Borralhinho makes his debut with the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa in two concerts on October 25 and 27. Both concerts take place at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, but with different programs. Bruno Borralhinho conducts among other works Arnold Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" and Richard Strauss Suite "Der Bürger als Edelmann" and will be the soloist in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Cello Concerto in A major.
More information: October 25 - Schoenberg/Tchaikovsky/Mozart
More information: October 27 - Boccherini/Bach/Strauss


New recording featuring works by R. Strauss, Mahler and Zemlinsky!

15.09.2018: Bruno Borralhinho's new CD will be available worldwide from October 2018. In this new recording, the Portuguese cellist interprets the sonatas of R. Strauss and A. Zemlinsky as well as his own transcription for cello and piano of Gustav Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen".
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Borralhinho conducts Puccini's opera
and Shchedrin's Ballett

31.01.2018: This years edition of the festival "Dias da Música" in Lisbon presents two productions conducted by Bruno Borralhinho, both in concertante version. In the "Carmen Suite" by Rodion Shchedrin, Bruno Borralhinho will lead the Deutsches Kammerorchester. For the opera "Gianni Schicchi" by Giacomo Puccini, two orchestras will perform fused on stage: the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and the Deutsches Kammerorchester. Both concerts will take place on April 28th.
More information: Festival "Dias da Música"


Bruno Borralhinho's CD
honoured with international award

18.03.2017: The CD "Portuguese Music for Cello and Orchestra" (NAXOS), in which Bruno Borralhinho was accompanied by the Gulbenkian Orchestra, was awarded the Listener's Choice Award after an international public vote promoted by The Violoncello Foundation (New York/USA). The album was considered the best of 2016 by voters from more than 65 countries all around the world.
More information: The Violoncello Foundation


Bruno Borralhinho in the spotlight
of the musical magazine DACAPO of 2017

15.01.2017: The career as a cellist, the orchestra conducting, the 15th anniversary of "his" Ensemble Mediterrain and many other subjects.
Read here: Cover | pp. 18-19 | pp. 20-21 | pp. 22-23

Biography

Career, studies, prizes, recordings, etc.

The portuguese cellist Bruno Borralhinho is a member of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Ensemble Mediterrain.

His professional activity includes regular soloist performances in solo recitals, with orchestra or with piano accompaniment. Among his highlights is the unanimously acclaimed interpretations of Bach's 6 Suites with the Montagnana Suggia (June/2008) and Beethoven's Complete Works for Cello and Piano with the Stradivari King of Portugal (November/2012), both in Lisbon. He led Masterclasses in Brazil, Portugal and Spain.

The diversified artistic activity of Bruno Borralhinho also includes orchestral conducting, in which he received important impulses through Christian Kluttig, Jorma Panula and Juanjo Mena. Along with regular appearences as a conductor with his Ensemble Mediterain (DE), he conducted the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa (PT), the Orquestra Clássica do Sul (PT), the Orquestra Clássica do Centro (PT), the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira (PT), the Orquestra de Camara Portuguesa (PT), the Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu (CZ), the Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná (BR), the Orquestra Sinfônica de Campinas (BR), the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin (DE) and the Berliner Symphoniker (DE), and worked along with internationally renowned soloists such as Camilla Nylund, Tara Erraught and Lothar Odinius.

rich tone and great sensibility

Philipp Scott, Fanfare Magazine (EUA)

In 2009 he lauches the CD Pagina Esquecida (Forgotten Page) with pianist Luísa Tender, completely dedicated to Portuguese music. This production has received the best reviews in the national and international press. In 2016, his next recording dedicated to Poruguese music appeared on NAXOS, this time for cello and orchestra accompained by the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Pedro Neves. This album was considered the best of 2016 by voters from over 65 countries across the 5 continents of the planet after an international public vote promoted by The Violoncello Foundation (New York / USA). More recently, in 2018, Borralhinho recorded R. Strauss and Zemlinsky's sonatas and Mahler's songs with pianist Christoph Berner for the German record label ARS.

He was born in 1982 in Covilhã and began his music studies at twelve years old at his hometown, where he studied with prof. Luis Sá Pessoa. Between 2000-2006, he studied with prof. Markus Nyikos at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, concluding the Graduate and Postgraduate studies with the highest distintions. Afterwards, he also studied with the prestigious Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk. He attended several Master Classes with Natalia Gutman, Antonio Meneses, Pieter Wispelwey, Anner Bylsma, Jian Wang, Martin Ostertag, Martin Löhr, Márcio Carneiro and Thomas Demenga, among others.

He holds a Master's Degree in Culture Management from the UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona). In October 2011 he was one of the participants of the Atelier for Young Festival Managers in Izmir (Turkey), organized by the EFA - European Festivals Association). Bruno Borralhinho received his PhD in Humanities - History, Geography and Art - from the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) in 2020. His research and dissertation was based on the topic "Power and Classical Music in Portugal in the 20th Century".

He won the 1. Prize in the competitions Julio Cardona (1999) and Prémio Jovens Músicos (2001), this last organized by RDP (Portuguese National Radio). As a soloist, he performed with the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra do Norte, Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, Orquestra XXI, Orquestra Clássica do Sul, Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa.

technically impeccable and with a precise notion of the style and spirit of each work

Bernardo Mariano, Diário de Notícias (PT)

Bruno Borralhinho has been a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and Solo-Cellist of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra. He was also a member of the Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin, resident orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, and of the DSO - Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin.

During all these years he performed in leading concert halls throughout all Europe, Asia, USA, Canada, Russia and South America and worked with important conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano, Franz Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Järvi or Andris Nelsons.


DISCOGRAPHY

As a soloist and with the Ensemble Mediterrain

RICHARD STRAUSS, GUSTAV MAHLER & ALEXANDER ZEMLISNKY | Cello & Piano

Release: October 2018 | Label: Ars Produktion
Artists: Bruno Borralhinho (Cello), Christoph Berner (Piano)

The works selected by Bruno Borralhinho and Christoph Berner for this CD were composed over a period of eleven years (between 1883 and 1894). It was appealing to place three early works alongside each other, works in which Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and Alexander von Zemlinsky prove their command of their art of composing, so to speak, and where – with all the echoes of admired role models – their own distinctive signature becomes audible for the first time.

The sonatas of Strauss and Zemlinsky belong to the essential nucleus of the repertoire of the instrument. The new transcription by Bruno Borralhinho of Mahler's songs, on the other hand, establishes a tempting link between the composer and the instrument, but also, in the concrete case of this programmatic construction, a historical, musical and personal connection between the three composers.

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"PORTUGUESE MUSIC FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA"

Release: June 2016 | Label: Naxos
Artists: Bruno Borralhinho (cello), Orquestra Gulbenkian, Pedro Neves (conductor)

This recording brings together for the first time some of Portugal’s leading composers in a unique programme dedicated to their works for cello and orchestra. The impressionistic and luxuriant harmonies of Luiz Costa’s Poema contrast with Fernando Lopes-Graça’s sombre and austere Concerto da Camera, a commission from Mstislav Rostropovich. Luís de Freitas Branco’s Cena Lírica is an early, romantically expressive piece, while the Concerto by his eminent pupil Joly Braga Santos is a hauntingly poetic symphonic masterpiece.

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"PAGINA ESQUECIDA" | Cello & Piano

Release: December 2009 | Label: Dreyer & Gaido
Artists: Bruno Borralhinho (cello), Luísa Tender (piano)

This recording is entirely dedicated to Portuguese music for solo cello and cello/piano duet. We aim to make this repertoire better known in Portugal and abroad, as it includes some of the most significant Portuguese works of the past and current centuries. By recording this music, we wish to counteract the tendency for Portuguese cello repertoire to be dismissed as a “forgotten page” (Página Esquecida), abroad and even in Portugal. As we continue to honor these and other composers in our live performances, so we also hope our project stimulates the interpretation of Portuguese music by even more musicians.

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ENSEMBLE MEDITERRAIN: ALBENIZ/BEETHOVEN

Release: August 2009 | Label: Dreyer & Gaido (coprod. Deutschlandradio Kultur)
Artists: Ensemble Mediterrain

On the 100th Anniversary of his death, the Ensemble Mediterrain dedicates to the spanish composer Isaac Albéniz the world premiere of his famous "Suite Española op.47", on a version for septet by Bruno Borralhinho. The CD also includes the "classical" Septet op.20 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

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ENSEMBLE MEDITERRAIN: MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA PORTUGUESA

Release: July 2006 | Label: CCR - Classic Concert Records
Artists: Trio Mediterrain

Idealized and developed under absolute responsibility of the former Trio Mediterrain, this project consists of a recording of 4 original works dedicated to the group itself by 4 proeminent portuguese composers.

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Multimedia

Videos, audio samples, photos, etc.

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  • VIDEO

    Ensemble Mediterrain
    Camilla Nylund, Soprano
    Bruno Borralhinho, Conductor.
    August 2020.

  • VIDEO

    Deutsches Kammerorchester
    Bruno Borralhinho, Conductor.
    Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony op. 110a (Barshai)
    January 2020.

  • VIDEO

    Ensemble Mediterrain
    Susana Gaspar, Soprano
    Bruno Borralhinho, Conductor
    Mahler: Symphony n. 4 (E. Stein).
    July 2019.

  • VIDEO

    Bruno Borralhinho conducts
    the opera "Gianni Schicchi" (Puccini).
    April 2018.

  • AUDIO

    CD Strauss Mahler Zemlinsky.
    Richard Strauss:
    I. Allegro con brio


  • VIDEO

    Bruno Borralhinho conducts
    the "Carmen-Suite" (Bizet/Shchedrin).
    April 2018.

  • PHOTO

    Credits: Bruno Borralhinho.

  • AUDIO

    CD Portuguese Music for Cello and Orchestra.
    Luiz Costa / Pedro Faria Gomes:
    I. Poema


  • VIDEO

    Bruno Borralhinho conducts
    the "Winterreise" (Schubert/Zender).
    April 2017.

  • VIDEO

    Live Interview on RTP3. 26.05.2016.

  • VIDEO

    Teaser. Naxos. Portuguese Music for Cello and Orchestra.

  • VIDEO

    Bruno Borralhinho conducts Mahler with the Ensemble Mediterrain.
    Interview. May 2016.

  • AUDIO

    CD "Página Esquecida".
    Lopes-Graça: Three Portuguese Popular Songs:
    "Senhora do Almurtão"


  • VIDEO

    Article. Interview. Newspaper "Público".

  • AUDIO

    LIVE with the Stradivarius "King of Portugal".
    Beethoven:
    Sonata in A major op.69:
    Allegro ma non troppo


  • AUDIO

    LIVE with the Stradivarius "King of Portugal".
    Beethoven:
    Sonata in D major op.102, n.2:
    Allegro con brio


  • PHOTO

    Credits: Bruno Borralhinho.

  • VIDEO

    LIVE with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Cesário Costa (cond).
    Joly Braga Santos:
    Concerto: II. Allegro. 07.11.2011.

  • VIDEO

    Article. Interview.
    "SIC Notícias".
    23.11.2012.

  • SIC
    VIDEO

    Live interview.
    "SIC Notícias, Edição da Noite".
    23.11.2012.

  • Página Esquecida
    AUDIO

    CD "Página Esquecida".


    Armando José Fernandes:
    Sonata:
    I. Assai animato.

Agenda

Concert schedule as a soloist, conductor and chamber musician.
The concert agenda of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra can be followed here.

Next performances...


21.03.2019

Beijing (CN)

Chamber music
Trios for Violin, Cello and Piano by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky.

24.03.2019

Shanghai (CN)

Chamber music
Trios for Violin, Cello and Piano by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky.

10.-13.04.2019

Cologne (DE), Ljubljana (SL) and Warschau (PL)

Dresdner Philharmonie
J. Brahms.

19.04.2019

Lukaskirche, Dresden (DE)

Ensemble Mediterrain
J. S. Bach: Excerpts from Matthäus-Passion BWV 244, Johannes-Passion BWV 245, Osteroratorium BWV 249, etc..

11.05.2019

Campinas (BR)

Conductor and Soloist
Orquestra Sinfônica de Campinas
M. Portugal: Overture "Il Duca di Foix"
J. Haydn: Cello-Concerto in C
J. Brahms: Symphony n.4


12.05.2019

Campinas (BR)

Conductor and Soloist
Orquestra Sinfônica de Campinas
M. Portugal: Overture "Il Duca di Foix"
J. Haydn: Cello-Concerto in C
J. Brahms: Symphony n.4


14.05.2019

Brasilia (BR)

Soloist
Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote


15.05.2019

Brasilia (BR)

Masterclass
Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro
Brasilia Cello Academia


19.07.2019

Festival das Artes, Coimbra (PT)

Conductor
Ensemble Mediterrain
G. Mahler: Symphony n.4 (E. Stein)


20.07.2019

Cistermusica - Festival de Alcobaca (PT)

Conductor
Ensemble Mediterrain
G. Mahler: Symphony n.4 (E. Stein)


03.08.2019

Festival de Musica
de Sant Pere de Rodes, Catalunya (ES)

Recital Cello & Piano
L. v. Beethoven: Variations on a theme from "Judas Maccabäus", WoO 45
S. Rachmaninov: Sonata, op. 19, etc.


23.08.2019

Schloss Wackerbarth, Radebeul (DE)

Ensemble Mediterrain
L. v. Beethoven: Septet
I. Albéniz/B. Borralhinho: Suite Espagnole, op. 47


08.09.2019

Robert-Schumann-Fest, Dresden (DE)

Ensemble Mediterrain
C Schumann: Piano Trio
R. Schumann: Piano Trio n. 1

15.09.2019

teatro Guaira,
Curitiba (BR)

Conductor
Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná
F. J. Haydn: Symphony n.1
F. Lopes-Graça: Sinfonietta, "to Haydn"
D. Shostakovich: Symphony n.1


10.11.2019

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (DE)

Conductor
Dresdner Philharmoniker e.V.
Benefit Concert
Works by Beethoven, Villa-Lobos and Camargo Guarnieri


10.01.2020

Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon (PT)

Conductor
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
W. A. Mozart: Symphony n. 39
W. A. Mozart: Symphony n. 40
W. A. Mozart: Symphony n. 41


11.01.2020

Centro Cultural e de Congressos, Caldas da Rainha (PT)

Conductor
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
W. A. Mozart: Symphony n. 39
W. A. Mozart: Symphony n. 40
W. A. Mozart: Symphony n. 41


22.01.2020

Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin (DE)

Conductor
Deutsches Kammerorchester
Freitas Branco: Duas Melodias
Shostakovitch: Kammersinfonie, 110a
Mahler: Adagietto, Symphony n. 5
Braga Santos: Concerto for Strings


25.04.2020

CCB, Lisbon (PT)

canceled
Conductor
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Camilla Nylund, Soprano
Peter Rösel, Piano
L. v. Beethoven: Symphonies n.5 and n.6, Piano Concerto n. 4, "Ah! Perfido", Choral Fantasy and Mass in C


01.05.2020

Villa Teresa,
Coswig (DE)

postponed
Ensemble Mediterrain
J. C. Arriaga: String Quartet n. 3
F. Schubert: String Quintet in C





03.05.2020

"Meisterinterpreten", Dresden (DE)

postponed
Ensemble Mediterrain
J. C. Arriaga: String Quartet n. 3
F. Schubert: String Quintet in C





31.05.2020

Webermuseum,
Dresden (DE)

Ensemble Mediterrain
L. Cherubini: String Quartets
n. 2, n. 3 and n. 5


08.06.2020

Kulturpalast,
Dresden (DE)

canceled
Chamber music
Brett Dean and members of the Dresdner Philharmonie
Works by Brett Dean

12.07.2020

Konzertplatz Weisser Hirsch, Dresden (DE)

Conductor
Ensemble Mediterrain
R. Strauss: Serenade for Winds op. 7
R. Strauss: Suite for Winds op. 4
W. A. Mozart: "Gran Partita"


23.08.2020

Palais Sommer,
Dresden (DE)

Conductor
Ensemble Mediterrain
Camilla Nylund, Soprano

Works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Wolf,
Tschaikowski, Sibelius and Puccini
for Soprano and String Orchestra


22.09.2020

Gulbenkian Foundation,
Lisbon (PT)

Conductor and Cello
Ensemble Mediterrain
W. A. Mozart: Six Preludes and Fugues KV 404a (vlc.)
L. Berio: "Folk Songs" for Mezzosoprano und Chamber Ensemble (cond.)


18.10.2020

Villa Teresa,
Coswig (DE)

postponed
Ensemble Mediterrain
J. C. Arriaga: String Quartet n. 3
F. Schubert: String Quintet in C


25.10.2020

Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon (PT)

Conductor
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
J. Haydn: Symphony n. 1 in D
W. A. Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in D KV 314
J. Haydn: Symphony n. 64 in A „Tempora Mutantur“


14.12.2020

Hoppe's Kunstraum, Berlin (DE)

postponed
Cello & Piano
Raúl da Costa (Piano)
C. Debussy: Sonata
F. Lopes-Graça: "Página Esquecida"
D. Shostakovich: Sonata
A. Piazzolla: "Le Grand Tango"


17.01.2021

Kulturpalast,
Dresden (DE)

Conductor
Ensemble Mediterrain
Donghoon Shin: The Hunter's Funeral
Ferrucio Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
Gustav Mahler: Symphony n. 1 (K. Simon)


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