Spain
Nuno has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Spain’s Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias since October 2022. In addition to concerts in Oviedo, the 2025/26 season sees him return to Antwerp Symphony, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Orquesta Nacional de España, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, and make debuts with Adelaide Symphony, Trondheim Symphony, Västerås Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia at London’s Barbican Centre.
Highlights of the previous three seasons have included concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Frankfurt's hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orquestra Sinfônica de São Paulo, Tampere Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. In the opera pit, Nuno has conducted productions of La traviata, Cavalleria rusticana, Rusalka and Manon. In November 2022 he conducted his own staging of José Saramago’s reimagining of Don Giovanni at the Gulbenkian, having previously conducted their semi-staging of Così fan tutte the previous season.
Nuno won First Prize at the 2017 Cadaqués International Conducting Competition and has since gone on to conduct all the top orchestras in Spain and Portugal as well as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Symphoniker Hamburg, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Gävle Symfoniorkester, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Residentie Orkest, Helsinki Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Nederlands Orkest and Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino. He was a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Fellow between 2018-19 and stepped in for Bernard Haitink that same season to make his debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
Born in Porto, Nuno studied conducting at the Zürich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli and won the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. In 2015 he was admitted into the German Music Council’s Dirigentenforum and for the following two years he was both a Tanglewood Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic.
