The first edition of Mondego International Music Academy, an academy for conductors, composers, and instrumentalists gathered in Coimbra, Portugal, takes place this week.
Gustavo Gimeno, Dinis Sousa, and Nuno Coelho teach conducting alongside eight young conductors from around the world, while Manuel Martínez Burgos works with the selected composers.
The orchestra is made up of twenty Portuguese and Spanish musicians, all soloists and members of major European orchestras such as the Munich, Rotterdam, and Oslo Philharmonic, as well as the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the Porto Casa da Música Orchestra, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, among others.
They are joined by nearly thirty young instrumentalists who share the music stand with professional musicians during orchestral rehearsals and also receive chamber music lessons from their tutors. In addition, they were also able to gain insight into the professional world of music through talks by managers such as Jesús Herrera, artistic director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Antonio Orlando, associate director at Askonas Holt.
Tomorrow, July 10, the closing concert will be held with Beethoven's Coriolan overture and Brahms's First Symphony, with Gimeno and the conducting students.
This project was conceived by Nuno Coelho with the intention of uniting the different aspects of classical music and fostering the exchange of experiences between generations. All of this, with the Iberian Peninsula as the meeting point.
Coelho is already working on the second edition of the Mondego International Music Academy.
More information at: Mondego Academy
