Abel Pereira, horn
Abel Pereira was appointed principal horn of the National Symphony Orchestra in 2015 by Music Director Christoph Eschenbach.
Pereira has won awards at competitions such as Leeuwarden International Horn Competition (Holland), Internationaler Instrumentalwettbewerb Markneukirchen (Germany), Concertino Praga (Czech Republic), National Wind Competition (Portugal), Conservatory Souza Lima (Brazil), Arouca´s City Hall (Portugal), National Radio Competition (Portugal) and European Master-Prize (England).
He was a founding member of the ARZTIZ Woodwind Quintet, Porto Brass Quintet and Music Director of the Portuguese Horn Ensemble. He has been invited to play and teach in some of the most prestigious international music festivals such as Festival de Música do Estoril, Festival de Música de Sintra, Festival de Música da Póvoa de Varzim, CCB Summer Fest, Miami Summer Music Festival, HALCYON New Hampshire, Stellenbosch Chamber Music Festival, Festival de Artes de Maputo, Festival de Musique de Besançon, Ossiach Austria Festspiel, Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms, Diaghilev Festival Perm, Athens Music Fest, Baden-Baden Festspiel, Berlin Festspiel, International Horn Society Symposiums and the Brazilian Horn Association.
He has performed in the most well-known concert halls all over the world, including Royal Albert Hall, London Festival Hall, Barbican, Carnegie Hall, Cite de la Musique, Teatro all Scala, Concertgebouw, Munich Gasteig, Musikverein, Berline Philharmonie and Kennedy Center.
As a soloist he played more than 60 solo concerts with many world class orchestras.
He was principal horn with Porto Symphony Orchestra, as well as professor at ANSO (Lisbon University) and ESMAE (Porto University).
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