Marco Pereira
1st Soloist in the cello section of the Gulbenkian Orchestra
D'Addario Bowed Artist and Faculty Artist at the Atlantic Music Festival - Watterville (USA)
Marco Pereira studied the cello at the Escola Profissional de Música de Viana do Castelo and at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon with Paulo Gaio Lima. He later attended the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid, where he was a pupil of Natalia Shakovskaya. During this time he had the opportunity to work with other great cello masters such as Natalia Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Phillipe Muller and Ivan Monighetti.
The string quartet was always present in his career, from a very early age, reaching its peak with the foundation of the Matosinhos String Quartet. This quartet was selected as ECHO Rising Stars 2015.
In 2003, Marco Pereira won the Portuguese Musical Youth competition, in the categories of Chamber Music and Cello – superior level, and received the Maestro Silva Pereira prize from the Young Musicians Award. Internationally, he was awarded 1st prize at the Liezen International Wettbewerb für Violoncello competition in Austria. He also won 1st prize at the VI Certamen de Música de Cámara del Sardinero in Santander in 2006.
Marco Pereira is 1st Soloist in the cello section of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He performs regularly as a concerto soloist, having collaborated with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Joensuu Orchestra (Finland) and the Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra (USA), among others. He taught cello at the University of Aveiro and the University of Minho. Since 2011, he has been a D’Addario Bowed Artist and Faculty Artist at the Atlantic Music Festival – Watterville (USA).
