Marcos Magalhães harpsichord, artistic director

Marcos Magalhães studied at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (with Kenneth Gilbert, Christophe Rousset, and Kenneth Weiss). He has given many concerts in Portugal and other European countries as well as in Asia.
 
Marcos Magalhães is the chief conductor of Os Músicos do Tejo, one of the leading ensembles on the Portuguese music scene, co-founded by and co-directed with Marta Araújo. Since 2006, the ensemble has presented many projects focused on Baroque music. It has produced six CDs (four of them released by the Naxos label), which have gathered enthusiastic reviews. The CD entitled “Il Trionfo d’Amore” was included in the Quarterly Critics’ Choice longlist of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, while the recording of the opera Il Mondo della Luna by Pedro António Avondano was nominated for the best classical album in the Portuguese Music Awards.
 
Marcos Magalhães performs as harpsichordist in many other projects, for example, in a duo with conductor and harpsichodist Aapo Häkkinen.