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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.

Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música works regularly with well known conductors such as Olari Elts, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Elihau Inbal, Michail Jurowski, Christoph König (Principal Conductor from 2009-2014), Reinbert de Leeuw, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, Emilio Pomàrico, Peter Rundel, Michael Sanderling, Vassily Sinaisky, Tugan Sokhiev, John Storgårds, Joseph Swensen, Ilan Volkov, Antoni Wit, Christian Zacharias and Lothar Zagrosek. Soloists who have collaborated with the orchestra include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Pedro Burmester, Joyce Didonato, Alban Gerhardt, Natalia Gutman, Viviane Hagner, Alina Ibragimova, Steven Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian, Christian Lindberg, Felicity Lott, António Meneses, Midori, Truls Mørk, Kristine Opolais, Lise de la Salle, Benjamin Schmid, Simon Trpčeski, Thomas Zehetmair and the Arditti Quartet. 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, and the british composer Harrison Birtwistle in 2017.

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, Valladolid, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Brazil and Lisbon.

In recent seasons the orchestra has performed all of Mahler’s symphonies, Prokofiev’s symphonies, Bethoven’s piano concertos and Rachmaninov’s piano 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) and Georges Aperghis (2017). In 2017 the orchestra performs all of Brahms’ symphonies and key works such as Mozart’s Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem, Harrison Birtwistle’s Earth Dances and James Dillon’s Via Sacra. It also presents the Portuguese premieres of new works by Magnus Lindberg and Pascal Dusapin commissioned by Casa da Música.

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, which enables it to perform the entire symphonic repertoire from the classical period to the 21st century. The orchestra has been part of Fundação Casa da Música since July 2006.

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