Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Gulbenkian Choir and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock, Grand Auditorium, 20 January, 2008.
Marius Brenciu, Paul Groves, Stefan Vinke, Werner Güra and Yann Beuron; baritones Andreas Schmidt,
Dalibor Jenis, Daniel Sumegi, Diogo Oliveira, Luís Rodrigues, Massimiliano Gagliardo, Nuno Dias,
Philippe Fourcade, Scott Hendricks and Willard White; basses Anatoli Kotscherga, Ante Jerkunica,
Sergei Aleksashkin, Stephan MacLeod and Victor Torres; violinists Arabella Steinbacher, David Lefèvre,
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Isabelle van Keulen, Janine Jansen and Julia Fischer; cellists Jian Wang
and Truls Mørk; pianists Alexander Toradze, António Rosado, Arcadi Volodos, Artur Pizarro,
Eurico Rosado, Ingrid Fliter, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Rudolf Buchbinder and Zoltán Kocsis;
clarinettist Kari Kriikku, organist Marcelo Giannini, percussionist Evelyn Glennie and viola
da gambist Sérgio Álvares.
In 2008, Lawrence Foster continued as the Gulbenkian Orchestra’s musical director and chief
conductor, with Claudio Scimone as honorary conductor. Simone Young and Joana Carneiro
were respectively principal guest conductor and guest conductor.
Gulbenkian Choir
In 2008, the activity of the Gulbenkian Choir continued to be predominantly linked to that
of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the two working together on all of the choral-symphonic repertoire
presented under the auspices of the Gulbenkian Music Season. Twenty-one of the choir’s 23 public
performances were with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the other two taking place with the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock, for the performance of the work
A German Requiem, by Johannes Brahms.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Music Department