Leonardo Fernandes

Trombone

Participated in the 2020 edition

Leonardo André Nunes Fernandes was born in Braga in 1998. He began his musical studies in 2004 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory in Braga, completing the 8th grade in 2016 in Professor Zeferino Pinto’s class with the highest grade and receiving the Conservatory Award, the Academic Merit Award, the Artistic Merit Award, and the Award for Best Graduating Student. In 2016, he enrolled at the Porto School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), where he is currently in his second year of the bachelor’s degree program in the class of Professor Severo Martínez. He has attended masterclasses with: Severo Martínez, Petur Eiriksson, Reinaldo Guerreiro, Zeferino Pinto, Portuguese Brass, David Silva, Gabriel Antão, Kevin Hakes, Hugo Assunção, György Gyivicsan, Nuno Martins, Jarrett Butler, Stefan Schulz, Ricardo Pereira, Joaquim Oliveira, Luis Diego Bonnilla, Jacques Mauger, Thomas Horsch, Ian Bousfield, Filipe Alves, David Bruchez, Justin Clark, Massimo La Rosa, Bill Thomas, Zsolt Szabo, Robert Kaip, Fabrice Millischer, Jamie Williams, Csaba Wagner, and Zoltan Kiss. He is a member of the ESMAE Symphony and Wind Orchestra. He was a member of the Symphony and Wind Orchestra of the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory in Braga; he participated in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th CMCG Orchestra Workshops, OJ.COM (2013–2016), and the 1st Musical Improvement Workshop for Young Philharmonic Musicians - “Sopros do Minho” Youth Orchestra, 1st and 2nd Wind Orchestra Workshops organized by the Caldas das Taipas Music Band, and the 2014 Música Júnior Festival. He has collaborated with the Braga Chamber Orchestra, the Braga Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, the Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra, the Portuguese Symphonic Band, and the Casa da Música Remix Ensemble, having had the opportunity to work with conductors such as: Paulo Matos, António Saiote, José Eduardo Gomes, Charles Gomes, Francisco Pinto, Valdemar Sequeira, Fernando Marinho, Martin André, Joana Carneiro, Pedro Carneiro, Jean-Sébastien Béreau, Cesário Costa, Ernst Schelle, Pedro Andrade, Jean-Marc Burfin, António Batista, Filipe Cunha, Francisco Ferreira, Peter Rundel, Leopold Hager, and Baldur Brönimann. In 2017, he was accepted as a substitute member of the Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia. He participated in the 1st and 3rd editions of the Remix Ensemble Summer Academy, in 2014 and 2016, working with conductor Peter Rundel and members of the Remix Ensemble, particularly trombonist Ricardo Pereira. He performed as a soloist with the Wind Orchestra (2012 and 2015), with the symphony orchestra (2013 and 2014) of the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory in Braga—after winning a competition—and with the group “Massive Brass Attack!” She has received several awards: 1st prize (Children’s, Youth, and Junior Divisions), 3rd prize (Junior Division), and Honorable Mention (Children’s Division) at the “Terras de La Salette” International Wind Instrument Competition in Oliveira de Azeméis; 1st prize (Class C) and 2nd prize (Class D) at the Alto Minho National Wind Instrument Competition in Ponte de Lima, and 1st prize (Category IV) at the 2nd Castelo de Paiva International Trombone Competition. In 2018, he was accepted as section leader at the Gulbenkian Orchestra Internship and won the “Hungarian Trombone Bootcamp International Trombone Competition” in the Tenor Trombone category in Budapest. He is a member of the ensembles “T’n’T” (Tubas and Trombones), under the artistic direction of Hugo Assunção, and “Massive Brass Attack,” under the artistic direction of Sérgio Carolino.