Nuno Côrte-Real, Composer and conductor Born in Lisbon in 1971.
Nuno Côrte-Real has established himself as one of the most important Portuguese composers and conductors of today. Recently, he won, consecutively, the prize for Best Classical Music Work of the Portuguese Society of Authors, in 2018 and 2019, with the song cycle “Agora Muda Tudo”, and the opera “Canção do Bandido”, respectively. “7 Dances to the Death of the Harpist” at the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, “Little Sea Songs” at the Purcel Room in London, “Concerto Vedras” at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in New York, “Nova Cancioneiro” at the Siglufirdi Festival in Reykjavík, and “Andarilhos” – dance music at the Casa da Música in Oporto are among a select few of Côrte-Real’s premiered most relevant pieces.
His discography includes albums edited nationally and internationally in various musical genres, from chamber music to choral, symphonic and opera. Highlight to the following recordings “Volupia” (Numérica 2012), “Mirror of the Soul” (Odradek 2016), “Agora Muda Tudo” (Odradek 2019), “Cante” (Odradek 2020) and “Time Stands Still” (Artway Records 2020).
In the scenic world, Nuno Côrte-Real has worked with some of the leading names in opera, theater, literature and film in Portugal, both as a conductor and a composer. Côrte-Real has conducted the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra, the Ciudad de Granada Orchestra, the Extremadura Orchestra, and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, among others, in addition to numerous projects with the Ensemble Darcos.
He is the founder and artistic director of Ensemble Darcos, a chamber music group dedicated to the interpretation of his music and the great European repertoire, and artistically signs the Darcos Season. He was a scholarship holder of the National Center of Culture, and, in 2003, he was awarded the Silver Merit Medal of the Torres Vedras City Council.
