Ensemble Darcos & Nuno Côrte-Real
Biographie Ensemble Darcos & Nuno Côrte-Real
Nuno Côrte-Real
Born in Lisbon, Nuno Côrte-Real is one of the most important Portuguese composers and conductors working today. He has twice been awarded the prize for Best Classical Music Work by the Portuguese Society of Authors: for the song cycle Agora Muda Tudo in 2018; and for the opera Canção do Bandido in 2019. He received a scholarship from the National Centre of Culture, and in 2003 he was awarded the Silver Merit Medal of the Torres Vedras City Council.
Premieres of his works include Seven Dances to the Death of the Harpist at the Kleine Zaal of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam; Little Sea Songs at the Purcell Room in London; Concerto Vedras at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in New York; Novo Cancioneiro at the Siglufjörður Folk Music Festival in Reykjavík, and the dance piece Andarilhos at the Casa da Música in Porto.
He has conducted the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Giuseppe Verdi Symphony, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Ciudad de Granada and Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, among others, and collaborated on numerous projects with Ensemble Darcos.
Ensemble Darcos
was created in 2002 by composer and conductor Nuno Côrte-Real with the aim of interpreting European chamber music and the compositions of Côrte-Real. The group’s permanent members, Filipe Quaresma (cello), Gaël Rassaert (violin), Helder Marques (piano) and Reyes Gallardo (viola), are regularly joined by leading international musicians, such as cellist Mats Lidström, violinists Massimo Spadano, Giulio Plotino and Junko Naito, pianist António Rosado, violist Ana Bela Chaves and the percussionist Miquel Bernat.
Ensemble Darcos has performed at Magnus Hall and St John’s Smith Square and is a regular participant at the Dias da Música Festival. Recordings include Volupia comprising chamber music by Côrte-Real (Numérica, 2012), Mirror of the Soul (Odradek, 2016), Lagarto Pintado (Artway, 2019), Agora Muda Tudo (Odradek, 2019), Cante by Nuno Côrte-Real (Odradek, 2020) and Time Stands Still (Artway, 2020).
