Mozart, Coll & Shostakovich
Mozart, Coll & Shostakovich
From Mozart’s lively symphony to a brand-new trombone concerto.
PLEASE NOTE: New concert time – all subscription concerts now start at 7:00 PM.
Mozart’s bright and energetic Symphony No. 33 opens the evening, before trombonist Ian Bousfield performs Francisco Coll’s newly commissioned work.
After the interval, Shostakovich takes us into one of the most intense symphonic landscapes in music history with his Fifth Symphony.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 33
Francisco Coll: Tapias, for trombone and orchestra – world premiere (commissioned work)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Nuno Coelho, conductor
Ian Bousfield, trombone
The revised version of Tapias was commissioned for Ian Bousfield by Stavanger Symfoniorkester Orquestra Simfònica De Les Illes Balears, Zagreb Biennale, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz and Sinfónica de Tenerife
The original version of Tapias was commissioned by the Orquesta Nacional de España
Nuno Coelho is a Portuguese conductor who served as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias from 2022 to 2027. He is also Founder and Artistic Director of the Mondego International Music Academy.
Coelho has conducted orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He has also collaborated with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Symphoniker Hamburg, Gulbenkian Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.
As an opera conductor, he has led productions of La traviata, Cavalleria rusticana, Rusalka, Manon and Manon Lescaut. He has also conducted staged productions of Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni, as well as Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at London’s Barbican Centre.
Coelho won First Prize at the Cadaqués International Conducting Competition in 2017 and was a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2018/19. He has served as Assistant Conductor of the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and participated in programmes including the Tanglewood Conducting Fellowship and the Dirigentenforum of the German Music Council.
Born in Porto and originally trained as a violinist, he studied conducting with Johannes Schlaefli at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.