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The performances will take place on February 7th in Faro, February 22nd in Vila Real and March 1st in Caldas da Rainha and will feature an excellent cast of soloists, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos. The staging and choreography will be assumed by Mário João Alves.
Teatro Nacional de São CarlosBorralhinho assumes the Artistic Direction of the new Júlio Cardona International Music Competition, organized by the City Council of Covilhã. The first edition will take place from June 25th to 28th, 2025, and will feature a prestigious international jury. The competition categories will be violin, flute and piano.
CIMJCBruno Borralhinho will conduct the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra in March 2025, in what will be his debut as conductor of a Chinese orchestra. The concert will take place at the Grand Theater of Guyiang and includes Symphony no. 3 Eroica by Ludwig van Beethoven, the Capriccio Espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and a Concerto for piano and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Chinese soloist Jian Li.
In addition to his return to the podium of orchestras such as the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa or the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Bruno Borralhinho will conduct two opera productions - Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and Philippe Boesmans' Julie - and make his conducting debuts with orchestras in China and Romania, among others. He will also be performing solo and chamber music recitals in Germany, Turkey and Portugal. Stay tuned for news!
AgendaBruno Borralhinho conducts a new production of Mozart's masterpiece Don Giovanni as well as an opera gala with excerpts from La Traviata, Carmen, Rigoletto, Cavalleria Rusticana and other opera classics at the Óbidos Opera Festival. The cast includes, among others, some of the most famous Portuguese singers, the director Jorge Balça and the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa.
Festival de Ópera de ÓbidosThe concert on August 18th at Dresden's historic Theaterplatz, entirely dedicated to Portuguese music, included symphonic works by the composers Luís de Freitas Branco, Fernando Lopes-Graça and Frederico de Freitas as well as new Fado orchestrations sung by the Portuguese Fado star Sara Correia.
Dresdner Philharmonie - "Fado"Bruno Borralhinho makes his debut with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música on July 7th in the Sala Suggia. The program includes Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2 (soloist: Konstanze Pietschmann) and Fernando Lopes-Graça's Suite Rústica.
Interview (PT) / Casa da MúsicaThe classical music label NAXOS will release a new CD in June 2022 with the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa conducted by Bruno Borralhinho. Entirely dedicated to the Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça, this new album includes the first world recording of the "Cinco Velhos Romances Portugueses".
NaxosBruno Borralhinho conducts Ravel's "L'heure espagnole" and de Falla's "El sobrero de tres picos" in November at the Centro de Cultural de Belém, a production directed by Jorge Balça that brings together some of the most outstanding contemporary Portuguese singers and the Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo.
The well-known music publisher recently published the string orchestra versions of "Souvenir de Florence" by Tchaikovsky, "Italian Serenade" by H. Wolf as well as the chamber orchestra versions of "El sombrero de tres picos" by M. de Falla and the "Suite from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" by Lully, all transcribed from the original versions by Bruno Borralhinho. The same publisher had recently published other transcriptions by Borralhinho of works by Mozart, Grieg, Albéniz and Mahler.
Edition Kunzelmann - Bruno BorralhinhoTheme & Variations is the title of the monthly bilingual column by Bruno Borralhinho in the Portuguese music magazine Da Capo. The target group are the musicians themselves, but also music lovers in general. Read the last issues here, with exclusive interviews with prominent personalities such as Antônio Meneses, Emmanuel Pahud, Ton Koopman, Norman Lebrecht, Tabea Zimmermann, Barbara Hannigan, Alina Pogostkina, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jordi Savall or René Pape:
n. 1 Mar/21 | n. 2 Apr/21 | n. 3 May/21 | n. 4 Jun/21 | n. 5 Jul/21 | n. 6 Aug/21 | n. 7 Sep/21 | n. 8 Oct/21 | n. 9 Nov/21 | n. 10 Dez/21 | n. 11 Jan/22 | n. 12 Feb/22 | n. 13 Mar/22Based on the analysis of specific cases of institutions, people or events that are seen as representative and exemplary of the interrelational dynamics, Borralhinho's new publication offers a contextualization of the music sector in the various historical and political settings in Portugal in the past century. Written in Spanish and considered as "from now on an inevitable reference", it is available both in book and eBook formats on the usual platforms.
OrderPortuguese conductor and cellist Bruno Borralhinho is Artistic Director of the Ensemble Mediterrain and a member of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.
Along with regular appearances leading his Ensemble Mediterain (DE), he conducted for example the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa (PT), the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música (PT), the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (PT), the Orquestra do Algarve (PT), the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa (PT), the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira (PT), the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa (PT), the Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu (CZ), the Orchestra de Camera Radio of Bucharest (RO), the Filarmonica Bacau (RO), the Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (MX), the Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná (BR), the Orquestra Sinfônica de Campinas (BR), the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin (DE), the Berliner Symphoniker (DE) and the Dresdner Philharmonie (DE), and worked along with internationally renowned soloists such as Camilla Nylund, Tara Erraught, Sarah Maria Sun, Karolina Gumos, Adriane Queiroz, Lothar Odinius, Peter Bruns and Javier Perianes.
Opera is one of his great passions: he conducted new productions of Mozart (Don Giovanni, 2023), Ravel (L'heure espagnole, 2022) and Puccini (Gianni Schicchi, 2018) and worked as an assistant in new productions of Wagner (The Flying Dutchman, 2022) and Beethoven (Fidelio, 2020).
In 2022, the label NAXOS released a CD exclusively dedicated to the composer Fernando Lopes-Graça, performed by the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Borralhinho, receiving excellent reviews from the international press and the general audience. Musicweb (USA): "This fine release is a must for anyone interested in Lopes-Graça’s music but others will also find much to enjoy and admire"; Das Orchester (DE): "Under the direction of conductor Bruno Borralhinho the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra blossoms passionately"; Da Capo (PT): "Bruno Borralhinho knew how to promote, with artistic depth, editorial sensitivity and clear conducting, the forgotten creative production of one of the greatest Portuguese composers of the 20th century".
Bruno Borralhinho 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 thesis focused on the relations between power and the field of classical music in Portugal throughout the 20th century.
He was born in 1982 in Covilhã and began his music studies at the age of 12 years old in 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 distinctions. Afterwards, he also studied with the prestigious Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk. He attended several Masterclasses with Natalia Gutman, Antonio Meneses, Pieter Wispelwey, Anner Bylsma, Jian Wang, Martin Ostertag, Martin Löhr, Márcio Carneiro and Thomas Demenga, among others.
Bruno Borralhinho appears regularly as a soloist with orchestra or in recitals with piano in Portugal, Spain, Germany and Brazil. Among his highlights are the unanimously acclaimed interpretations of Bach's 6 Suites with the Montagnana Suggia (2008), Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano with the Stradivari King of Portugal (2012) and Haydn's complete cello concertos (2014, soloist and conductor). Borralhinho led until now Masterclasses in Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Romania.
In 2018 Borralhinho recorded the sonatas of R. Strauss and Zemlinsky as well as Mahler's songs with pianist Christoph Berner for the German record label ARS and in 2016 NAXOS released a CD dedicated to Portuguese music for cello and orchestra, with Bruno Borralhinho accompanying as a soloist by the Orquestra Gulbenkian. This album was ranked as the best of 2016 by voters from over 65 countries on the 5 continents of the planet, following an international public vote sponsored by The Violoncello Foundation (New York/USA). In 2009 Bruno Borralhinho released the double CD "Pagina Esquecida" (Forgotten Page), also dedicated entirely to Portuguese music, and received enthusiastic reviews in the national and international press.
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 (PT), Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa (PT), Orquestra do Norte (PT), Orquestra Clássica da Madeira (PT), Orquestra XXI (PT), Orquestra Clássica do Sul (PT), Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa (PT), Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (PT), Orquestra Sinfônica de Campinas (BR) and Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro de Brasília (BR).
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, Christian Thielemann, Marek Janowski, Kent Nagano, Franz Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Paavo Järvi or Andris Nelsons.
Author: Bruno Borralhinho
Release: March 2021
Language: Spanish
Format: Book/eBook
Editor: Universo de Letras (Grupo Planeta)
Title translation: Power and Classical Music in Portugal in the 20th Century
The various political regimes that ruled in Portugal in the 20th century -monarchy, first republic, dictatorship and democracy- represented decisive changes in society and in socio-communicative processes in general. The field of classical music was these more or less peaceful and complex transformations and transitions not alien. Starting from the observation of specific cases of institutions, people or events that are seen as representative and exemplary of the interrelational dynamics, this research carries out a contextualization of the music sector in the different historical and political contexts of the country over the last century.
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Concert schedule as a soloist, conductor and chamber musician. The concert agenda of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra can be followed HERE.
Conductor, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Adés, Alves de Sousa, Ravel.
Conductor, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Adés, Alves de Sousa, Ravel.
Conductor, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Adés, Alves de Sousa, Ravel.
Ensemble Mediterrain
Vasks, Fauré.
Ensemble Mediterrain
Beethoven, Gideon Klein.
Conductor, Beyra - Ensemble Orquestral
Filipe Quaresma (soloist)
Debussy, Tinoco.
Masterclass- Cello & Chamber music
Conductor, Filarmonica Bacau
Beethoven, Stravinsky.
Conductor, Ensemble Mediterrain
Janacek, Turina, Grieg.
Masterclass - Violoncello
Conductor, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore.
Conductor, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore.
Conductor, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore.
Conductor, Junges Sinfonieorchester Dresden
Haydn, Delius, Boulanger, Sibelius, Dvorák, J. Strauss II.
Conductor, Junges Sinfonieorchester Dresden
Haydn, Strauss II, Sibelius, Boulanger.
Conductor, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra
Jian Li (piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart, Beethoven.
Conductor, Dresdner Philharmonie
Gershwin, Bernstein.
Conductor, Dresdner Philharmonie
Gershwin, Bernstein.
Solo Recital
Bach: Suites n. 1 and n. 6
Cassadó: Suite
Recital with piano
Raúl da Costa (piano)
Bach: 3 Sonatas BWV 1027–1029
A. V. d'Almeida: 3 Bagatelas and comissioned work
Conductor, Beyra - Ensemble Orquestral
de Falla.
Artistic Director and Jury member.
Conductor, Ensemble Mediterrain
Carla Caramujo (Soprano)
André Baleiro (Baritone)
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn.