BIOGRAPHY

Autumn 2022 sees Nuno Coelho open his first season as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias following his appointment earlier this year. He also begins his fifth season as Guest Conductor of Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra with a production of José Saramago/Mozart’s Don Giovanni to mark the writer’s centenary.

2022/23 season highlights elsewhere include debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic and Sinfonieorchester St Gallen; returns to Antwerp Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto and Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife; and an Iberian tour with the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España.

Last season saw Nuno debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonie, Staatsorchester Hannover, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gavle Symphony, Malmö Symphony, Residentie Orkest, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg and Orchestre National de Lille; and continue his relationships with Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia and Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona.

In March 2022 he conducted a semi-staged Così fan tutte at the Gulbenkian, adding to theatre credits which include productions of La traviata, Cavalleria rusticana, Rusalka, Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank and Seven Deadly Sins – the latter at Tanglewood Festival. 

Nuno won First Prize at the 2017 Cadaqués International Conducting Competition. He was a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Fellow between 2018-19 and stepped in for Bernard Haitink that same season to conduct the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Born in Porto in 1989, Nuno studied violin in Klagenfurt and Brussels, and conducting in Zurich with Johannes Schlaefli.