Remix Ensemble Casa da Música

Peter Rundel principal conductor 

Since its debut in 2000, Remix Ensemble has already performed the world premieres of about 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 and Olari Elts, among others. Stefan Asbury was Remix Ensemble first principal conductor. 

On the international stage, Remix Ensemble has performed at the most important venues in cities such as Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, Zürich, Hamburg, Donaueschingen, Antwerp, Brussels, Milan, Budapest, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Witten, Rotterdam, Luxemburg, Huddersfield, Orleans, Bourges, Toulouse, Reims, Norrköping, Barcelona, Madrid, Valence, and Ourense, including at the festivals Wiener Festwochen and Wien Modern (Vienna), Agora (IRCAM – Paris), Printemps des Arts (Monte Carlo), Musica Strasbourg and Donaueschinger Musiktage. It was the first Portuguese ensemble to perform at the Philharmonie Berlin (2012) and at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (2020). The Remix returned to this venue in 2023, as part of a tour with Matthias Goerne that also took it to the Cologne Philharmonie. In 2024, the ensemble will perform at the Acht Brücken Festival in Cologne. 

World premieres included commissions from Wolfgang Rihm, Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francesco Filidei, Hèctor Parra, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Daniel Moreira, and Jörg Widmann, and works by Pascal Dusapin, Georges Aperghis and Peter Eötvös. Remix Ensemble also premiered the operas 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 the opera Quartett by Luca Francesconi (Porto and Strasbourg). It presented a scenic project on Schuberts “Winterreise” by Hanz Zender, directed by Nuno Carinhas. The Ring Saga project, with Richard Wagner’s music adapted by J. Dove and G. Vick, took Remix Ensemble in tour throughout several European cities. The last seasons 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, Rebecca Saunders, Justė Janulytė, Enno Poppe and Liza Lim, and also works by Portuguese composers across different generations. 

In the 2024 season, Remix Ensemble returns to the iconic music of Emmanuel Nunes and showcases works by Vasco Mendonça as Composer in Residence – among them are a new violin concerto, to be premiered by the prestigious soloist Carolin Widmann, and a piece for voice and ensemble featuring Christina Daletska. The collaboration with the Ruído Vermelho collective brings commissioned music from Luís Antunes Pena, and the celebration of the Carnation Revolution addresses the avant-garde of Jorge Peixinho and Emmanuel Nunes, in contrast with the new generations. 

Remix Ensemble has played on eighteen CDs featuring 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 has included the CD featuring works by Pascal Dusapin in its Critics’ Choice of 2013. 

PETER RUNDEL

Peter Rundel is one of the most sought-after conductors by leading European orchestras, thanks to the depth of his approach to complex scores from all styles and eras, along with his interpretative creativity. He has conducted world premieres of opera productions at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Nationaltheater München, Wiener Festwochen, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bregenz Festspiele, and Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, working with renowned directors such as Peter Konwitschny, Philippe Arlaud, Peter Mussbach, Heiner Goebbels, Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus) and Willy Decker. His opera work spans traditional repertoire and innovative contemporary music theatre productions such as Donnerstag from Stockhausen’s Licht cycle, Wolfgang Mitterer’s Massacre, and the world premieres of Georg Friedrich Haas’ operas Nacht and Bluthaus, Isabel Mundry’s Ein Atemzug — die Odyssee, and Emmanuel Nunes’ Das Märchen and La Douce. The spectacular production of Prometheus, which Rundel conducted at the Ruhrtriennale, was awarded the Carl-Orff-Preis in 2013. In 2016 and 2017, he conducted Heiner Goebbels’ De Materie at the Armory Hall in New York and the Teatro Argentino La Plata, a production that premiered at the Ruhrtriennale in 2014. With the world premiere of Hèctor Parra’s Les Bienveillantes, directed by Calixto Bieito, he made his debut at the Opera Vlaanderen in 2019.

Born in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Peter Rundel studied violin with Igor Ozim and Ramy Shevelov, and conducting with Michael Gielen and Peter Eötvös. He was a violinist with Ensemble Modern, with which he maintains a close relationship as a conductor. He has conducted regularly with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble intercontemporain, and Asko|Schönberg Ensemble. He was the artistic director of Philharmonique Royal de Flandre and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. In 2005, he was appointed principal conductor of Remix Ensemble Casa da Música. Deeply committed to the development and promotion of young musical talents, he founded the Remix Ensemble Summer Academy in Porto.

Peter Rundel has received numerous awards for his recordings of 20th-century music, including the prestigious Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Grand Prix du Disque, the ECHO Klassik, and a Grammy nomination.

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