Nuno has been Chief Conductor of Spain’s Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias since October 2022. In December 2024 the orchestra extended his contract though to July 2027.

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The 2025/26 season sees Nuno return to Antwerp Symphony, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Orquesta Nacional de España, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, and debut with Adelaide Symphony, Trondheim Symphony, Västerås Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia at London’s Barbican Centre. He also conducts Spain's National Youth Orchestra (JONDE) at the Konzerthaus Berlin and Rheingau Musik Festival.

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Highlights of the previous three seasons have included concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Frankfurt's hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orquestra Sinfônica de São Paulo, Tampere Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.

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Nuno’s opera credits include a semi-staging of Così fan tutte and José Saramago’s reimagining of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, both at the Gulbenkian. He has also conducted productions of La traviata, Cavalleria rusticana, Rusalka and Manon, and will return to Ópera de Oviedo for Manon Lescaut in 2026.

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Nuno won First Prize at the 2017 Cadaqués International Conducting Competition and has since gone on to conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Symphoniker Hamburg, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Noord Nederlands Orkest and Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino.

 

He was a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Fellow between 2018-19 and stepped in for Bernard Haitink that same season to make his debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

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Born in Porto, Nuno studied conducting at the Zürich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli and won the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. In 2015 he was admitted into the German Music Council’s Dirigentenforum and for the following two years he was both a Tanglewood Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic.

 

Literature and tennis occupy his time off-podium.