Laurence Cummings principal conductor 

Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música was formed in 2006 to perform Baroque music from a historically informed perspective. In addition to regular work with its principal conductor, Laurence Cummings, the orchestra has performed under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alfredo Bernardini, Amandine Beyer, Fabio Biondi, Harry Christophers, Antonio Florio, Paul Hillier, Paul McCreesh, Riccardo Minasi, Hervé Niquet, Andrew Parrott, Rachel Podger, Christophe Rousset, Dmitri Sinkovsky, Andreas Staier and Masaaki Suzuki, accompanying soloists such as Roberta Invernizzi, Franco Fagioli, Peter Kooij, Dmitri Sinkovsky, Alina Ibragimova, Rachel Podger, Marie Lys, Iestyn Davies, Rowan Pierce, Josep-Ramon Olivé, Andreas Scholl, Pieter Wispelwey, Ilya Gringolts, Fernando Guimarães, Anna Dennis and Nuria Rial, and collaborating with vocal groups like The Sixteen, Coro Casa da Música, and Coro Infantil Casa da Música.

The OBCM concerts have garnered unanimous critical acclaim both in Portugal and abroad. It presented the Portuguese premiere of Handel’s opera Ottone and the modern premiere of L’Ippolito by Francisco António de Almeida. The orchestra toured Spain (Úbeda y Baeza Early Music Festival, Ourense, and Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona), England (Handel Festival in London), France (Dijon Opera and Baroque Festivals in Sablé and Ambronay), Germany (BASF in Ludwigshafen am Rhein), Austria (Konzerthaus Vienna) and China (Beijing Conservatory), in addition to performing in various cities across Portugal.

It joined Coro Casa da Música to perform Bach’s Mass in B minor, Magnificat, Easter, Ascension, and Christmas Oratorios and several Cantatas, Charpentier’s Te Deum and Missa Assumpta est Maria, Handel’s Messiah, Domenico Zipoli’s Vespers of Saint Ignatius, Haydn’s St. Cecilia Mass, and Vivaldi’s Gloria. OBCM has worked regularly with the internationally renowned harpsichordist, Andreas Staier, with whom it recorded the album À Portuguesa (Harmonia Mundi, 2018) featuring two works by Carlos Seixas, among others. This programme was performed in Porto and on tour – Dijon Opera, BASF in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Lyon Auditorium, and Sintra. In recent seasons, the orchestra performed the complete Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, several settings of the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Charpentier, Vivaldi, Scarlatti and José Joaquim dos Santos, Monteverdi’s Vespers, Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ, Telemann’s Water Music, and excerpts from António Leal Moreira’s serenades, among many others.

In 2025, the orchestra collaborates with soloists Jane Gordon (violin), Marta Gonçalves (flute) and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord and conductor). Bach’s arrangement of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater features the striking voice of countertenor Iestyn Davies. Alongside concertos for three harpsichords and two of Bach’s famous Brandenburg Concertos, the programme includes concertante works with the return of renowned conductors and soloists Alfredo Bernardini and Fabio Biondi. Telemann’s Magnificat concludes the season with the Orquestra Barroca sharing the stage with Coro Casa da Música and Coro Infantil.

OBCM has released live CDs featuring works by Avison, D. Scarlatti, Carlos Seixas, Avondano, Vivaldi, Bach, Muffat, Handel, and Haydn, under the direction of some of the most prestigious international conductors.

Principal Conductor

LAURENCE CUMMINGS

Laurence Cummings is one of the most versatile musicians in the field of historical performance in England, both as a harpsichordist and conductor. He is the musical director of Academy of Ancient Music, the London Handel Festival, and Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música. He is considered an authority on Handel’s music and “one of the best advocates of the composer worldwide”.

Frequently acclaimed for his sophisticated and thrilling interpretations in opera houses, he has performed across Europe, conducting productions for the Opernhaus Zürich (Belshazzar, King Arthur), Theater an der Wien (Saul), Göteborgsoperan (Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, Giulio Cesare, Alcina, and Idomeneo), the Théâtre du Châtelet (Saul), and the Opéra de Lyon (Messiah). In the UK, he is a regular guest of English National Opera (Radamisto, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Semele, Messiah, Orfeo, and Indian Queen), the Glyndebourne Festival (Saul, Giulio Cesare, and Fairy Queen), and Garsington Opera (L’Incoronazione di Dario, L’Olimpiade, and Vivaldi’s La Verità in Cimento). He has also performed at the Linbury Theatre Covent Garden (Berenice and Alceste), Opera North (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), the Buxton International Festival (Tamerlano and Mozart’s Lucio Silla), and with Opera Glassworks (The Rake’s Progress). In the 2020/21 season, he organized the final edition of the Göttingen International Handel Festival as Artistic Director, a position he held for nine years.

Cummings is also an experienced conductor in concert halls and is frequently invited to conduct period and modern instrument orchestras, including Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Concert, Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, Hrvatski barokni ansambl, La Scintilla (Zurich), Juilliard 415, Musikcollegium Winterthur, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestras of Basel, Moscow, and Scotland, and Washington, Kansas, Jerusalem, and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestras. In the UK, he has conducted Royal Northern Sinfonia, Hallé Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

His discography includes recordings with Emma Kirkby and Royal Academy of Music (BIS), Angelika Kirchschlager and Basler Kammerorchester (Sony BMG), Maurice Steger and English Concert (Harmonia Mundi), and Ruby Hughes and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Chandos). He has also recorded a series of operas and concerts at the Göttingen Internationella Händelfestivalen (Accent), as well as numerous solo harpsichord and chamber music recitals for Naxos.

He was an organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with distinction. Until 2012, he was the head of historical performance studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where he established baroque and classical orchestra practice in the curriculum. William Crotch is now Professor of Historical Performance. 

Musicians

VIOLIN

VIOLA

Cello

Double bass

OBOe

Bassoon

Audition date: January 14, 2026, 10:00 a.m.

Audition location: Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal

Notification of shortlisted candidates: to be announced

Deadline for submitting applications: November 9, 2025

Stefan Blunier principal conductor 

Leopold Hager conductor emeritus 

Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música works regularly with well known conductors such as Stefan Blunier, Baldur Brönnimann, Olari Elts, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Elihau Inbal, Michail Jurowski, Christoph König, Reinbert de Leeuw, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, Emilio Pomàrico, Peter Rundel, Michael Sanderling, Vassily Sinaisky, Tugan Sokhiev, John Storgårds, Jörg Widmann, Ryan Wigglesworth, Antoni Wit, Christian Zacharias, Lothar Zagrosek, Nuno Coelho, Pedro Neves, Joana Carneiro, Abel Pereira, Tito Ceccherini and Clemens Schuldt. 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, Harrison Birtwistle, Georg Friedrich Haas, Jörg Widmann, Philippe Manoury, Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe. 

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, Cologne, Valladolid, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela and Brazil. In 2024, it will share the stage with Arditti Quartet in the Räsonanz concert of the Ernst Von Siemens Music Foundation, presented by the Bavarian Radio’s Musica Viva series. This season also brings the performance of the complete Prokofiev piano concertos and new commissions from Portuguese composers Vasco Mendonça and Daniel Moreira. 

In recent seasons the orchestra has performed all of Mahler, Prokofiev, Brahms and Bruckner’s symphonies; Beethoven and Rachmaninov’s piano concertos; and Mozart’s violin 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), Georges Aperghis (2017), Harrison Birtwistle (2020), Peter Eötvös (2021) and Magnus Lindberg (2021), alongside with Portuguese contemporary music and the complete Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos (2017). 

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, and it has been part of Fundação Casa da Música since July 2006. 

Principal conductor

STEFAN BLUNIER

Stefan Blunier became the principal conductor of Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música at the beginning of 2021. In addition to his commitments in Porto, the 2021/22 season saw him conducting Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Berner Symphonieorchester, Orchester der TU Darmstadt, L’Orchestre de l’Opéra de Toulon and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He returns to Deutsche Oper am Rhein to conduct Verdi’s Macbeth.

Following the enormous success of the new production of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in 2017, Blunier was immediately invited to work on a new production of Der Zigeunerbaron. He then conducted Lohengrin at the Oper Frankfurt where he was also successful with Dafne, Tristan und Isolde and Carmen. He is a frequent guest at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he recently conducted Carmen, Salome and Die Fledermaus. He also conducted Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Les contes d’Hoffmann at Nasjonaloperaen (Oslo) and Komische Oper Berlin and a new production of Schreker’s Der ferne Klang at Kungliga Operan.

With productions such as Eugen d’Albert’s Der Golem and Schreker’s Irrelohe, Stefan Blunier helped the Beethoven Orchester and the Oper Bonn gain prestige beyond their region during his tenure as the city’s general music director until 2016. Both operas were recorded by Dabringhaus & Grimm and received several awards: ECHO 2011 (Golem) and 2012 (Irrelohe), as well as the German Record Critics’ Award 2012 (Irrelohe). His work with this orchestra included recording an impressive discography, featuring rarely performed works by Anton Bruckner, Franz Liszt and Franz Schmidt, as well as creating a Beethoven cycle.

As an opera conductor, Stefan Blunier has performed in cities such as Munich, Hamburg, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Montpellier, Oslo, Bern and London. As a guest conductor, he has conducted almost all Deutsche Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig , Duisburger Philharmoniker, Museumskonzerte Frankfurt and many orchestras in Denmark, Belgium, East Asia, Switzerland and France. More recently, he has conducted NHK Symphony (Japan), BBC Scottish Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Philharmonie zuidnederland (Netherlands), Kringkastingsorkestret (Norway) and Japan Century Symphony Orchestra. Alongside his commitments in Bonn, he was the principal guest conductor of Nationaal Orkest van België (Belgium — 2010-2013).

A native of Bern (Switzerland), Stefan Blunier studied piano, horn, composition and orchestral conducting in Bern and at the Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen. He is the founder of Ensemble für Neue Musik Essen. After participating successfully in the Besançon and Malko conducting competitions, he was appointed associate principal conductor in Mannheim and music director and principal conductor in Darmstadt (2001-2008), before taking on his role as general music director of Oper Bonn and Beethoven Orchester (2008-2016).

Musicians

vIOLIN I

VIOLin II

VIOLA

cello

double bass

flute

OBOe

CLARINET

bassoon

French horn

trumpet

TROMBONE

TUBA

Timpani

Percussion

HARP

Coro Infantil Casa da Música is one of the resident groupings of the institution, and made its public debut in 2017 during one of the major concerts of that season, on World Music Day. In the Suggia Hall, it joined forces with Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Coro Nacional de España and Coro Lira to perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Since its debut, the Choir has participated in the 2018 Christmas concert, singing Bach’s h-Moll-Messe with Orquestra Barroca and Coro Casa da Música, as well as in a 2019 Easter concert, singing Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with Orquestra Sinfónica and Coro Casa da Música. In January 2020, it returned to the main stage of Casa da Música to perform Berlioz’s Te Deum, alongside Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and Coro Nacional de España. It regularly performs on its own in the Suggia Hall.

Coro Infantil Casa da Música consists of about 50 children and is the result of a dynamic initiated in the 2016/2017 academic year which is ongoing. In collaboration with the primary schools of Quatro Caminhos (Matosinhos), Lomba (Porto), and Quinta das Chãs (Vila Nova de Gaia), a choral training process was developed which involved approximately 350 children, engaging educators, and families, and which motivated neighbouring communities.

This experience led to three choral groups, one for each school, from which the voices of the Coro Infantil have emerged. Thus, there are four structures within an extended geographical area, led by the Educational Services Department. Exploration of choral repertoires, collective composition, and encouragement of curricular success form the foundations of this project.

Raquel Couto was born in Porto in 1988. She began her studies in the field of choral music at an early age at the Curso de Música Silva Monteiro. She graduated in Choral Conducting under the guidance of the conductor Paulo Lourenço at the Lisbon School of Music. With the aim of deepening her knowledge of children and youth choir pedagogy, she participated in courses and training sessions with conductors such as Stephen Coker, Eugene Rogers, Paul Caldwell, and Brett Scott (USA); Werner Pfaff (Germany); Paul McCreesh, Greg Beardsell, and Rachel Joy Staunton (England); Elisenda Carrasco, Esteve Nabona, and Basilio Astulez Duque (Spain); Patrícia Costa (Brazil); and Maria Guinand (Venezuela). In 2012, she attended the “Write an Opera” course at the Royal Opera House in London.

Raquel has taught children and youth choir courses at academies and conservatories such as the Musical Foundation for Friends of Children (Fundação Musical dos Amigos das Crianças – Lisbon) and the Vila Real Conservatory. She teaches at the Espinho Academy and Espinho Professional Music School, where she conducts Crescendo Choir and Ensemble Vocal do Secundário. She provides vocal coaching for various theatre groups and schools, including the Balleteatro professional school.

She is one of the founding members of the a cappella vocal group PopUp – Vozes Portáteis and was the founder and conductor of SHINE Coro Gospel (Lisbon).

Raquel is the main conductor of Coro Infantil Casa da Música and has participated in other projects carried out in this institution — she was an assistant conductor in the performance of Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4 and Mahler’s Das klagende Lied by Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. She has also provided commentary and narration in concerts by this orchestra, notably in performances of Prokofiev’s Cinderella and Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye.

She is a member of the training group at the Casa da Música Educational Services.

Raquel is the founder and artistic director of Coro Lira (Children, Youth, and Adults), a group that has performed in various venues in Porto and premiered ten works by Portuguese composers in the show “Coisas Que Não Há Que Há” (Teatro Nacional São João), directed by Catarina Lacerda (Teatro do Frio).

Adriana Moreno

Afonso Guimarães

Alice Caldeira

Ana Bernardo

Ana Rita Brenhas

António Fontelonga

Beatriz Pinto

Carolina da Silva Moreira

Carolina Guedes

Carolina Oliveira

Carolina Rocha

Carolina Rodrigues Moreira

David Ferreira

Dinis Duarte

Dinis Moreira

Elana Mendes

Erica Azevedo

Ester Duarte

Francisca Soares

Gabriel Silva

Joana Sousa

João Pedro Coelho

Kaila Morais

Lara Loureiro

Leandro Vieira

Leonor Costa

Leonor Oliveira

Leonor Silva

Letícia Altoé

Mafalda Couto

Margarida Teixeira

Maria Clara Silva

Maria Eduarda Pimentel

Maria Emília Costa

Maria Francisca Brito

Maria Miguel Ribeiro

Maria Rita Andrade

Matilde Costa

Matilde Leite

Matilde Pinheiro

Nair Bilber

Pedro Soares

Rafaela Filipe

Rafaela Sousa

Rita Silveira

Salvador Fonseca

Sarah Pressler

Suéli Fernandes

Wellington Ramos

Trainers

Raquel Couto (principal conductor)

Joana Leite Castro (vocal technician)

Jonas Pinho (musical training)

Dalila Teixeira and Duarte Cardoso (accompanist pianists)

BIOGRAphy

Léo Warynski principal conductor
Paul Hillier conductor emeritus 
Pedro Teixeira assistant conductor 

Coro Casa da Música was founded in 2009 with Paul Hillier as its principal conductor until 2019. The choir performs regularly at Casa da Música and on tour, and has been conducted by Martina Batič, Simon Carrington, Nicolas Fink, Antonio Florio, Robin Gritton, Sofi Jeannin, Andrew Parrott, Marco Mencoboni, Kaspars Putniņš, Nacho Rodríguez, Gregory Rose, Nils Schweckendiek, Léo Warynski, and James Wood, as well as its assistant conductor, Pedro Teixeira. In 2025, it will work for the first time with Florian Helgath and Peter Dijkstra. With a core membership of 18 singers, the choir often expands to perform medium and full symphonic choral works, playing a key role in presenting repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Its symphonic choral projects have included collaborations with conductors such as Martin André, Stefan Blunier, Douglas Boyd, Baldur Brönnimann, Olari Elts, Leopold Hager, Michail Jurowski, Michael Sanderling, Christoph König, Peter Rundel, Vassily Sinaisky, and Takuo Yuasa. Additionally, the choir has performed early music programmes under the direction of internationally renowned specialists such as Laurence Cummings, Paul McCreesh, and Hervé Niquet.

Since its inception, Coro Casa da Música has premiered several works, including world premieres by Francesco Filidei, Michael Gordon, Gregory Rose, Manuel Hidalgo, Carlos Caires, Daniel Moreira, and a rediscovered work by Lopes-Graça. Its repertoire includes the Portuguese premieres of significant contemporary composers such as Birtwistle, Manoury, Dillon, Haas, and Rihm, alongside other key figures from the 20^th and 21^st centuries, including Lachenmann, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Gubaidulina, Ligeti, Distler, Kagel, and Cage. The current season  highlights the choir’s versatility, featuring Early Music by Allegri, Scarlatti, and João Rodrigues Esteves, a key figure of the Portuguese Baroque, as well as recent works by Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan, and Knut Nystedt.

Portuguese music has been a major focus of the choir, with programmes dedicated to the golden age of Renaissance polyphony, works by Lopes-Graça, and symphonic choral pieces by Bomtempo and António Teixeira. In June 2024, the choir released its first CD, featuring works by Fernando Lopes-Graça, under the Naxos label.

Coro Casa da Música has also performed with other Casa da Música ensembles – including its symphony orchestra, baroque orchestra, and contemporary music ensemble – in performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s The Seasons, The Creation and St. Cecilia Mass, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Requiem, Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Missa Solemnis, Brahms’ A German Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Arvo Pärt’s Credo, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Richard Strauss’ Elektra. The  2025 season brings Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 “Song of the Night”, and Telemann’s Magnificat in C.

Coro Casa da Música tours regularly, with performances at the Úbeda and Baeza Early Music Festival and the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid (Spain), the Laus Polyphoniae Festival in Antwerp, the Handel Festival in London, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Tenso Days Festival in Marseille, the Christmas Concerts in Ourense, and various concert halls in Portugal.

Leo Warynski

Léo Warynski is a French conductor whose work reflects a deep commitment to collective musical practice and a wide-ranging artistic curiosity. Renowned for the versatility of his repertoire, he moves with equal ease between opera, choral music and orchestral music, from early music to contemporary works. His conducting is widely praised for the clarity of his gestures, his precision of sound and his strong sense of musical architecture.

He performs regularly at leading concert halls and opera houses in France and abroad, including the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra de Nice, La Scala in Milan and the Teatro Colón. His operatic repertoire ranges from Mozart and Britten to Philip Glass and Unsuk Chin, whilst his concert programmes often explore unexpected connections between different musical periods.

A central part of his artistic practice is devoted to vocal music. In 2010, he founded the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, which quickly became one of France’s leading professional choirs, acclaimed for the quality of its sound, stylistic flexibility and bold programming. With Les Métaboles, he performs a vast repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary works, appearing at major festivals and concert halls.

At the same time, Léo Warynski has been the musical director of the instrumental ensemble Multilatérale since 2014. With this ensemble, he develops ambitious projects at the intersection of chamber music, orchestral repertoire and new works, collaborating with some of today’s leading composers and performers.

2026

Musicians

SOPRANO

CONTRALTO

TENOR

Bass

Auditions

No auditions occuring

Since its debut in 2000, Remix Ensemble has given the world premieres of around 115 new works and has collaborated with some of the world’s most sought-after conductors, including Peter Rundel, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Reinbert de Leeuw, Emilio Pomàrico, Ilan Volkov, Matthias Pintscher, Enno Poppe, Jörg Widmann, Baldur Brönnimann, Olari Elts, and Tito Ceccherini, among others. Stefan Asbury was the ensemble’s first principal conductor.

On the international stage, Remix Ensemble has performed at major venues in cities such as Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, Zürich, Hamburg, Donaueschingen, Antwerp, Brussels, Milan, Budapest, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Witten, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Huddersfield, Orleans, Bourges, Toulouse, Reims, Norrköping, Barcelona, Madrid, Valence, and Ourense. Its appearances include festivals such as Wiener Festwochen and Wien Modern (Vienna), Agora (IRCAM – Paris), Printemps des Arts (Monte Carlo), Acht Brücken (Cologne), Musica Strasbourg, and Donaueschinger Musiktage. It was the first Portuguese ensemble to perform at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (2020), in 2023 as part of a tour with Matthias Goerne that also included the Cologne Philharmonie.

World premieres have included commissions from Wolfgang Rihm, Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francesco Filidei, Hèctor Parra, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Rebecca Saunders, Justė Janulytė, Enno Poppe, Daniel Moreira, and Jörg Widmann, as well as works by Pascal Dusapin, Georges Aperghis, and Peter Eötvös. Remix Ensemble has also premiered operas such as Philomela by James Dillon (Porto, Strasbourg, and Budapest), Das Märchen by Emmanuel Nunes (Lisbon), Giordano Bruno by Francesco Filidei (Porto, Strasbourg, Reggio Emilia, and Milan), and a new production of Quartett by Luca Francesconi (Porto and Strasbourg). The ensemble presented a scenic project on Schuberts “Winterreise” by Hanz Zender, directed by Nuno Carinhas. The Ring Saga project, featuring Richard Wagner’s music adapted by J. Dove and G. Vick, took Remix Ensemble on tour across several European cities. Recent seasons have included the Portuguese premieres of works by Emmanuel Nunes, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Eötvös, James Dillon, Georg Friedrich Haas, Magnus Lindberg, Luca Francesconi, Philippe Manoury, Olga Neuwirth, Wolfgang Mitterer, Thomas Larcher, Christophe Bertrand, Oscar Bianchi, Philip Venables, Cathy Milliken, Liza Lim, and Federico Gardella, as well as works by Portuguese composers from different generations.

In its 25th anniversary season, Remix Ensemble continues to present Portuguese premieres of works by Liza Lim, Sarah Nemtsov, Olga Neuwirth, Jo Kondo, Isabel Mundry, and Jorge E. López. It also performs new commissions from Steve Reich — joined by Synergy Vocals — and from Johannes Maria Staud, whose piece is inspired by Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin and features tenor Christoph Prégardien. The season closes with a revival of Frank Zappa’s final composition, Yellow Shark.

Remix Ensemble has featured on eighteen CDs, showcasing works by Pauset, Azguime, Côrte-Real, Peixinho, Dillon, Jorgensen, Staud, Nunes, Bernhard Lang, Pinho Vargas, Mitterer, Karin Rehnqvist, Dusapin, Francesconi, Unsuk Chin, Schöllhorn, Aperghis, and Eötvös. The prestigious Gramophone music magazine included the CD featuring works by Pascal Dusapin in its Critics’ Choice of 2013.

No auditions occuring