Guest artist: Sérgio Simões bass trombone recital
Schedule
Tue Oct 01 2024 at 07:30 pm
Location
Fresno State Concert Hall | Fresno, CA
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Sérgio Rainho Simões joined the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra as Bass Trombone in September 2016 and was appointed trombone professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara in September 2017.A native of Coimbra, Portugal, Sérgio attended the Cantanhede Academy of Music, the Coimbra Conservatory of Music and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. His teachers included Ben van Dijk, Jörgen van Rijen, Remko de Jager, Pierre Volders and Bart van Lier.
He has performed as guest with other major orchestras throughout his career including the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Portugal) and Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands).
Sérgio has been a featured soloist with the UdeG Symphony Band (Mexico), the Centro Classical Orchestra (Portugal), the Coimbra Conservatory of Music Orchestra (Portugal), the AECMC IV Stage Orchestra (Portugal), the Carlos Chávez Trombone Choir School Orchestra (Mexico), among others.
He has been the recipient of several performance awards, including first prize at the 2020 Jeju International Brass Competition. In addition, he was a finalist in the Texas State Trombone Symposium and alternated to the final for both ITA's 2017 Donald Yaxley Bass Trombone Competition, and 2017 Edward Kleinhammer Orchestral Bass Trombone Competition.
He was on faculty at the Mexico National Trombone Week in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2024. Additionally, he is one of the organizers of the Festival Ibero-Latino-Americano in Coimbra, Portugal.
He is also an active chamber musician in ensembles such as Lusitanian Brass Trio, and Threebones who has recorded a debut album that was presented during the 2021 International Trombone Festival.
Running alongside this, he had been studying Electromechanical Engineering from Coimbra Institute of Engineering, which degree he completed in 2013.
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Fresno State Concert Hall, 2380 E Keats ave,Fresno,CA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
