Remix Ensemble Casa da Música

Since its foundation in 2000, Remix Ensemble Casa da Música has premiered around 115 works and has been conducted by some of the most prominent conductors on the international scene, including Peter Rundel, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Reinbert de Leeuw, Emilio Pomàrico, Ilan Volkov, Matthias Pintscher, Franck Ollu, Baldur Brönnimann and Olari Elts, among many others. Stefan Asbury was the first principal conductor of the Remix Ensemble.

Internationally, the Remix Ensemble has performed in the most prestigious concert halls in cities such as Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, Zurich, Hamburg, Donaueschingen, Antwerp, Brussels, Milan, Budapest, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Witten, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Huddersfield, Orleans, Bourges, Toulouse, Reims, Norrköping, Barcelona, Madrid, Valenciaand Ourense, including festivals such as the Wiener Festwochen and Wien Modern (Vienna), Agora (IRCAM — Paris), Printemps des Arts (Monte Carlo), Festival de Musique de Strasbourg and Donaueschinger Musiktage. It was the first Portuguese ensemble to perform at the Berliner Philharmonie (2012) and the first Portuguese musical group to perform at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (2020).

Among the works premiered worldwide have been commissions from Wolfgang Rihm, Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francesco Filidei, Hèctor Parra, Erkki-Sven Tüür, and Daniel Moreira, as well as compositions 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 the new production of the opera Quartett by Luca Francesconi (Porto and Strasbourg) with staging by Nuno Carinhas.

It produced a staging of Schubert’s Winterreise in Hanz Zender’s reinterpretation, also directed by Nuno Carinhas. A production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, with music by Richard Wagner adapted by Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick, took Remix Ensemble on tour to major European stages.

In recent seasons it has premiered works in Portugal by Emmanuel Nunes, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Eötvös, James Dillon, Georg Friedrich Haas, Magnus Lindberg, Luca Francesconi, Philippe Manoury, Wolfgang Mitterer, Thomas Larcher, Christophe Bertrand, Oscar Bianchi, Philip Venables, Cathy Milliken, Rebecca Saunders and Justė Janulytė, as well as numerous works by Portuguese composers from various generations.

The 2023 season included the national premieres of two works by Enno Poppe, one of which co-commissioned by Casa da Música. Featuring Matthias Goerne as soloist, Remix Ensemble offered the world premiere of a commission by Jörg Widmann: a new version for ensemble and baritone of Robert Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe. The ensemble also shared the stage with Ilya Gringolts, performing Ligeti’s Violin Concerto as well as a planned return to the Philharmonie de Paris in October.

Remix Ensemble has released eighteen albums featuring works by various composers, including 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 London music review magazine Gramophone included the CD with recordings of works by Pascal Dusapin, by Remix Ensemble and Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra, in the exclusive list of Critics’ Choice of the Year 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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