Ricardo Carvalhoso

Ricardo Carvalhoso was born in 1986 in Arcos de Valdevez, North of Portugal. He received his musical education at the Viana do Castelo Professional School of Music, the Porto College of Music and Performing Arts, and later at the Zurich University of the Arts, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in music performance and a Soloist Diploma. Among his teachers were Anne Jelle Visser, Sérgio Carolino, Eduardo Nogueroles, Chris Lee and Juan Carlos Diaz. 

Between 2009 and 2011, he was awarded with a series of international prizes including the Young Musicians Award in Portugal, the “Aosta Valley” Brass Competition in Italy, the Tuba Competition “Ville d'Avray” in France and the Music Prize of the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation in Switzerland. Still during his studies, he was a member of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra and the Academy of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. 

His professional career took off in early 2012 in France, when he became solo tuba of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. Later in 2015 he received his second orchestral engagement with the Philharmonia Zurich, and since 2017 he is the principal tuba of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Ricardo Carvalhoso is a much sought after soloist and educator.