CARLOS FERREIRA
"Carlos Ferreira's magnetic playing is deeply rooted in the understanding of different musical styles, evidenced by the nuances of colors he brings to each composition he interprets. Focusing his attention on the smallest details found in the music, Carlos Ferreira finds the perfect balance between honoring the composers' intention with his own personal talent. This is the way all music should be interpreted." CRISTIAN MĂCELARU
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EVENTS
29. MAR
ECHO Rising Stars Concert
Pedro Emanuel Pereira, piano
Brahms • Schumann • Poulenc • Debussy • Ding • Pereira
06. APR
ECHO Rising Stars Concert
Pedro Emanuel Pereira, piano
Widor • Debussy • Ding • Pereira • Horovitz
SCHEDULE
Sat, 08 March 2025 · 7:00 pm · Lisbon · Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Grand Auditorium
DEBUSSY Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet in B-flat and Piano
DING La lune, l’ombre et moi
BERNSTEIN Sonata for Clarinet and PianoPOULENC Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
PERREIRA Suite Duas Igrejas
Wed, 12. March · 8:15 pm · Amsterdam · Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, pianoCLYNE Fractured Time
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
Thu, 13. March · 8:15 pm · Amsterdam · Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, pianoCLYNE Fractured Time
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
Sat, 15. March · 9:00 pm · Amsterdam · Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
Fri, 28 March 2025 · 8:00 pm · Paris · Maison de la Radio et de la Musique - Auditorium
MAHLER Symphony No. 9
Sat, 29 March 2025 · 7:30 pm · Vienna · Wiener Konzerthaus
BRAHMS Sonata in Eb Major op. 120 no. 2
SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke
POULENC Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
DEBUSSY Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet in B-flat and Piano
DING La lune, l’ombre et moi
PEREIRA Suite Duas Igrejas
MEDIA
VIDEOS
W. A. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major
C. Debussy: Première Rhapsodie pour Clarinette et Orchestre
C. M. von Weber - Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73
S. Veress: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
PHOTOS
XX-XXI
Carlos Ferreira | Pedro Emanuel Pereira
Beauty and grotesque, metaphysics and empiricism, joy and sadness, life and death, this polarity is revealed to us in this music album. The magic of Carlos Ferreira’s clarinet merges in an embryonic symbiosis with the sounds of Pedro Emanuel Pereira’s piano. Therefore, XX-XXI reflects past and present experiences, in a journey that reveals itself to be current and timeless. In this first joint album by the artists, the symbiosis between the two musicians magnetizes us from the first to the last note, in a sublime work that will figure in the future of music history.
ECHO
Rising Star
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Principal Clarinet
Orchestre National de France
Principal Clarinet
ARD International Competition Munich
Prizewinner
Geneva International Competition
Prizewinner
WEMAG Soloist Prize at the Festspiele
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Clarinet Teacher
CONTACT
MANAGEMENT
Dacian Predan-Hallabrin
Photos by Ana Mar, Daniel Delang, Jaime Machado, Sophie Wolter
© 2024 by Carlos Ferreira / Dacian Predan-Hallabrin
Praised for his “magnetic playing” (Cristian Macelaru), Carlos Ferreira is hailed as one of the most proclaimed clarinetists of our time.
Prize winner at the ARD International Competition in Munich, the Geneva International Competition and of the WEMAG Soloist Prize at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Carlos Ferreira captivates audiences with his artistry, refined sound and stage presence.
Carlos has been selected as a European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) Rising Star for the 2024/25 season. As such, he will will perform in some of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls.
In 2024, Carlos Ferreira was named Principal Clarinet of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He takes on his new position in August 2025. In 2020, Carlos Ferreira joined the Orchestre National de France as Principal Clarinet. Previously he held the same position with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Orchestre National de Lille.
In addition to his engagements with the Orchestre National de France, Carlos enjoys an extensive international career as soloist and chamber musician, performing at the at the world’s major festivals and venues.
As soloist, Carlos appears with the Orchestre National de France, the the Münchener Rundfunkorchester, the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the Münchener Kammerorchester, Prague Philharmonia, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève and the Collegium Musicum Basel, and under the direction of acclaimed conductors such as Cristian Măcelaru, Lorenzo Viotti, Nuno Coelho, Valentin Uryupin, Gabriel Bebeșelea and Pierre Bleuse, always delivering deeply moving performances.
As a chamber musician, he has worked with world-renowned musicians such as Hilary Hahn, Alice Sara Ott, Emmanuel Pahud, Eric le Sage, Paul Meyer, Lise Berthaud, Pierre Fouchenneret, Sarah Nemtanu, Quatuor Hermès, Timothy Ridout, Frank Duprée, Nika Goric, Karen Gomyo, Julia Hagen and Sao Soulez-Larivière.
Member of the Academy of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2016, Carlos Ferreira pursued his orchestral career at first with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo as Principal E-flat Clarinet.
Born in Paredes, Portugal, he received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation while studying at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, in the class of professors Michel Arrignon and Enrique Pérez Piquer. He later joined the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the class of Arno Piters, and the HEMU of Lausanne in the class of Florent Héau. In Portugal, he was a student of José Ricardo Freitas at the José Atalaya Music Academy and ARTAVE, having completed his degree with Nuno Pinto at the Porto Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE).
His first joint album with the pianist and composer Pedro Emanuel Pereira titled “XX-XXI” was released in November 2022.
Carlos Ferreira is a Buffet Crampon Artist.