On 6 July 2024, Joana Carneiro makes her Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra debut in their inaugural concert as the new festival orchestra for the Carinthian Summer Festival in Austria. The programme for the festival’s opening concert features three masters of the Romantic era – Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Overture in C Major, Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor featuring pianist Claire Huangci, and Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No.3 in G Minor. The evening also features the world premiere of Hannah Eisendle’s Azinheira, a joint commission between the Carinthian Summer Festival and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. More information and tickets are available here.
Further festival highlights this summer include appearances at the closing concert of the 50th anniversary of the Festival Internacional de Música de Espinho in Portugal with rendition of Beethoven’s masterpiece Symphony No.9. On 20 July Carneiro will be leading Espinho’s Classical Orchestra and Symphonic Choir Inês De Castro at the Câmara Municipal de Espinho. More information and tickets are available at musica-esp.pt
In early August, Joana returns to the Edinburgh International Festival and joins musicians brought together especially for the Scottish premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s captivatingly rhythmic La Pasión según San Marcos, a piece which was commissioned by the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, on the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s death. Together with musicians from the RSNO, the Caracas-based choir, Schola Cantorum of Venezuela, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, and a line-up of soloists from jazz, popular and classical backgrounds Joana will bring this masterpiece to life at the Usher Hall on 03 August. More information and tickets are available here eif.co.uk
Joana has enjoyed an exciting and fruitful 2023/24 season during which distinguished debuts and re-invitations included collaborations with the Detroit Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Gulbenkian Orchestra in her native city of Lisbon, the Royal Scottish National Symphony, Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and Musikkollegium Winterthur among many others.
Photo: Vasco Vilhena
