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Isabel Pereira
  
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  ISABEL PEREIRA  (viola) » 

Isabel Pereira studied at the Royal Academy of Music where she was awarded a Dip Ram for an outstanding performance in her final recital and the Hilda Wyme Memorial Award for best recital of viola. She concluded there her B Mus (first class) and Postgraduate Degrees with Distinction, under the guidance of Paul Silverthorne.

Her prizes include the 1st. Prize in Young Musicians Award RDP - Portugal; the Moir Carnegie Prize; very highly commendations in the Theodore Holland Viola Prize and the Max Gilbert Prize; honors award for chamber music in Young Musicians Award RDP - Portugal. She was also the recipient of a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Royal Academy of Music.

Isabel was invited to take part in the Brahms and Friends Festival, the Lionel Tertis Viola Festival and the Berio Festival "Omaggio". Of her performance of the Berio's Sequenza VI, in the latter, the critics wrote "It was poetic and vividly imagined, Pereira moving seamlessly from rough-edged percussive sounds to a voice of creamy, virtuosic intensity." (the Strad July 2004).

Isabel has performed as a soloist with the Gulbenkian and Artave Orchestras and has played recitals in England, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Japan. She is the co-founder of the Schoenberg String Sextet with whom she has recorded for Radio of Portugal (RDP). She has also performed at prestigious venues such as St David's Hall - Cardiff with the Nephele Ensemble; the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Lisbon and Rosslyn Hill Chapel Hampstead - London with TESSITORI (a duo with classical guitarist João Loureiro) with whom she works and performs regularly in both England and Portugal.

Isabel is currently on trial for Principal Viola of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and collaborates regularly with prestigious orchestras such as: London Philharmonic Orchestra (where she was on trial for viola No 4), Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra amongst others.

In 2003 she was invited to become principal viola of the "World Youth Orchestra", and she has integrated the "Royal Academy Soloists" and has leaded and co-leaded the Royal Academy Orchestras.

Isabel has participated in various master classes with prestigious professors such as: Jerzy Kosmala, Tatjana Masurenko, Mikael Kugel, Hartmut Rohde and was personally invited to work with Gérard Caussé in the "Academie Musicale de Villecroze" France.

Orchestral Work
Orchestras: Brandenburg Sinfonia, London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Isabel's orchestral work also includes Bournemough Symphony Orchestra (inc Trial for Princ Viola, 2011-present), London Philharmonic Orchestra (inc Trial for no 4), English National Ballet (inc Trial for Vla 3), Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Concert Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (inc Trial), New London Sinfonia, London Conchord Ensemble, Gulbenkian Orchestra.

Isabel's orchestral training includes the Royal Academy Soloists, the Orchestras of the Royal Academy (as principal and co-leader), principal viola of the World Youth orchestra and Chamber Ensemble, principal viola of the Artave Orchestra, co-leader of the National Orchestra of the Professional Music Schools (Portugal), and principal viola of the AIDIMOS Orchestra (as part of an orchestral course in Sarajevo).

Isabel's solo and chamber work includes:

  • Recitals in England, Japan, Portugal and Spain
  • "Berio Festival" (RAM - Southbank) performing the Sequenze VI by Luciano Berio
  • Britten's Lachrimae accompanied by the ARTAVE Symphonic Orchestra, under the director of Vasco Pierce de Azevedo - Portugal
  • Concert of the Young Musicians Awards accompanied by the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Ronald Zolman - Portugal
  • Concerts with Tessitoria (viola and classical guitar guo with João Loureiro, including venues such as Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Rosslyn Hill Chapel in Hampstead, London, among others
  • Performances of the Goldberg Variations by Bach with string trio Ensemble Darcos - Portugal
  • Recitals with a trio of the World Youth Orchestra
  • Concrets in the "Brahms Festival" and "Lionel Tertis Viola Festival" in the Royal Academy of Music
  • Performances with various ensembles (string quartet, piano quintet, duo and trio) including the Mason Ensemble, in the Royal Academy of Music
  • Co-Founder and 1st viola of the "Shoenberg String Sextet, with whom she performed regularly in Portugal and recorded to the National Portuguese Radio

Education
Isabel's graduate studies took place at the Professional Music School of the Vale do Ave, Portugal (1994-2000); Royal Academy of Music (2000-2004, BMus 1st Class & LRAM): Royal Academy of Music (2004-2005, Dip RAM Distinction).

Prizes and Awards

  • Hilda Wyme Memorial Award (2005)
  • Moir Carnegie Prize (2005)
  • Scholarship from Calouste Culbenkian Foundation (2000-2003)
  • Max Gilbert Viola Prize, Highly Commended, RAM (2001)
  • Théodore Holland Viola Prize, Very Highly Commended twice, RAM (2001)
  • Young Musicians Award, First Prize, RDP Portugal (2000)
  • Young Musicians Award (Chamber Music), Awarded with Honours, RDP Portugal (1999)

Teachers: Paul Silverthorne.
Masterclasses: Yuko Inoue, Matthew Souter, Garfield Jackson, Luciano Iorio, Hartmut Rohde, Jerzy Kosmala, Tatjana Masurenko, Mikael Kugel (Lionel Tertis Viola Festival), Paul Silverthorne (Academia International de Musica de Solsona (Spain). Isabel was invited to the Académie Musicale de Villecroze in France by Gérard Caussé.

Isabel's web links
www.myspace.com/pereiraisabel

Isabel joined Morgensterns in April 2012

Isabel's web profile was last updated 19th May 2012