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Born in Loures the July 14, 1960. He finished his diploma in the National Conservatory in 1979 with the highest score in the class of Marcos Romão. He studied as a fellow of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris with Guy Deplus and Jacques Lancelot and in Munchen with Gerd Starke where he got the Meisterdiplom with distinction. Took a course in Postgraduate Contemporary Music at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain with Arthur Tamayo, and Traditional Repertoire in England with George Hurst. Was considered one of the brightest students who passed through the Canford Academy. 

 

Obtained a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Sheffield. Mentor and co-organizer of the World Congress of Clarinet 2009 in Oporto. He was artistic director of Guimarães’s Festival and Academy. He is the artistic director of ESMAE’s Symphonic Orchestra, Marcos Romão International Clarinet Meeting, and founding member of Opera North. Collaborates regularly as a teacher, soloist and conductor with the Venezuelan System of Youth Orchestras and Children. Performed or taught in more than thirty countries in Asia, Europe, America and North Africa. Speaks Spanish, Italian, French, German, Polish, and English.

 

 

Teacher

He was a professor in the conservatories of Coimbra, Figueira da Foz, Castelo Branco, Lisbon, Academy of Évora and the Amadores da Música, University of Aveiro, Católica of Oporto, and Lisbon Superior School of Music.

 

Taught seminars and masterclasses at universities and conservatories in Gdansk, Freiburg, Munich, Marseille, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Yangi, as well as in academies and Oviedo festivals, Musicalta, Venezuelan System of Youth Orchestras, Bogotá, Belo Horizonte (Winter Festival), Vigo, La Coruña, Pontevedra, Valencia, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Macau, Santiago, Chile, Lima, Chicago, Nancy and Starogard, Porto Alegre, San Jose, Montevideo, Asunción, Katowice, Camerino and Atri. 

 

His students play in every Portuguese Orchestras (better ratio by nationality / instrument) and teach the best schools. They are also holders of international awards. Has taught students from over 30 nationalities. Currently teaches at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto (ESMAE). 

 

 

Clarinetist

He was soloist in the Symphonic Youth Orchestra in 1973 and represented Portugal in the World Youth Orchestra in 1977 (Korea and Japan) and 1982 (Hungary) and 1983 (Spain).

He was soloist in the orchestra of the National Opera House of São Carlos and in the Régie Sinfóni a where he was the only Portuguese. 

 

Member of the Group of Lisbon Contemporary Music with Jorge Peixinho. Founder and inspirer of many chamber music groups, and was director of Solistas do Porto. Played with Orquestra Gulbenkian, Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra Clássica do Porto, Régie Symphony, Radio Lisbon and Porto, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Philharmonic of Beiras, Orquestra do Norte, Orquestra Sinfónica do Algarve, and Zurich Symphony.

 

Guest soloist of world congresses in USA, Belgium, France, Sweden, Canada, Japan, Spain and Italy.

Has performed in the festivals of Sintra, Estoril, Nancy, Shanghai, Macau, Rabat, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Caracas, São José, Santos, Lima, Yangi, Musicalta, Oviedo, Guimarães, Aveiro, Vila Real, Povoa de Varzim, Pacos Brandão, Thorn, Algarve, Madeira, Azores, Folle Journée (CCB), Camerino, Atri and Porto Alegre.

 

 

Conductor

Since 1998 has developed in parallel a fruitful conducting career where he has conducted all Portuguese orchestras, plus others such as City of Madrid, Simón Bolívar, Philharmonic of Flanders, Oviedo Festival Orchestra of Madrid, Gran Mariscal Ayacucho, Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of Caracas, Maracay, San Felipe, Harmos Festival, Musicalta, Interregional German Orchestra and Zurich Symphony.  Currently is ESMAE’s chief conductor with whom national and international reference live recordings were produced.

 

Has conducted operas such as Sousa Carvalho’s O Amor Industrioso, Haydn’s Il Boticário, Mozart ‘s Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, João Arroyo’s Amor de Perdição, Kurt Weill’s Kleine Mahagony and the Seven Deadly Sins, Alexandre  Delgado’s O Doido e a Morte, Ravel’s The Spanish Hour, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.

 

 

Jury

Jury member in the prestigious competitions of Viana da Mota Competition, Toulon, Constancia, Seville, Warsaw, Caracas, Kortrik, Ghent, Brasilia and president of Valentino Bucchi in Rome.

 

 

Awards

1st Prize Arts and Ideas (chamber music and soloist).

 

1st Prize New Values Of Culture (chamber music and soloist).

Received numerous positive press reviews in Public, Daily News, Zurcher Zeitung, Monde De La Musique and ICA.

Voted unanimously Honorary Member of the International Clarinet Association.

Was awarded the title of Latin American Personality In Clarinet for services rendered to the particular instrument and music in general by the Clariperu Association.

 

Discography

Clarinet Of Our Time, with Pedro Burmester, for Saphir.

Concerts of Kurpinsky and Canongia, for Numerical.

Portuguese Composers, for Strauss.

Quartet for Clarinet, for Transmedia.

A Portrait, with Michiko Tsuda, for Pan Classics.

Around Fado, not yet edited.

Symphony Orchestra and Singing, not yet edited.