Augusto Trindade

Adjunct Professor, Specialist

Augusto Trindade

augusto.trindade@ipcb.pt

Augusto Trindade is a founding member, president and the concertmaster of the Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has been invited by several orchestras to perform as a soloist, namely the St. Petersburg State Orchestra (Russia) under the direction of Vasily Petrenko, St. Petersburg Conservatory Orchestra and he has performed solo recitals and also as a member of chamber music ensembles in several countries, like Spain, Brazil, Turkey. With Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra, he has performed at Théâtre des Champs-Elisées and UNESCO Auditorium in Paris and at Philharmonie in Berlim. He was invited several times to collaborate with the Algarve Orchestra and also with Portuguese Chamber Orchestra as a Guest Concertmaster.
Augusto Trindade is the Artistic Director of the Paços de Brandão International Music Festival and one of the most renowned pedagogues in Portugal, taking the position of violin professor at the Superior School of Applied Arts in Castelo Branco and he is president of the Scientific Committee for the Masters in Music. He is also violin teacher at the Music Academy of Paços de Brandão. Her class includes students who have been awarded in most important violin and orchestral competitions, like European Youth Orchestra, World Orchestra, Leonid Kogan Violin Competition, Mediterranean Youth Orchestra.
He played under the direction of Osvaldo Ferreira, Vasily Petrenko, Ivo Cruz, Marc Tardue, Sir Neville Marriner, Luís Carvalho, Omri Hadari, Tugan Sokhiev, among others.
He has given several violin masterclasses at the State University of Campinas (Brazil), SESI/FIEC (Fortaleza, Brazil), Ouro Branco Internacional Festival (Brazil), Aveiro Music Conservatory Calouste Gulbenkian, Oporto and Coimbra Music Conservatories and others Schools of Music.
Augusto Trindade completed his violin studies at the Escola Superior de Música do Porto, in the class of Zofia Woycicka. As a fellow of the Portuguese Secretary of State for Culture, he obtained the degree of Master of Arts in Music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, in Vladimir Ovcharek’s class. During his training, he was also a fellow at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and studied with Zakhar Bron, Mikhail Gantvarg and Gerardo Ribeiro in Chicago.