Osvaldo Ferreira

As a guest conductor, Osvaldo Ferreira has recently appeared with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia, the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Rhineland Radio Orchestra in Germany, as well as the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, among others.

He is the Artistic Director of the Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra.

In Portugal, he served as Artistic Director of the Algarve Orchestra and the Algarve International Music Festival. He has recorded several CDs of works by Portuguese composers for the Numérica label, as well as a double CD of Mozart symphonies. With the Algarve Orchestra, he has performed in Vienna, Brussels, Lisbon, Seville, Porto, Curitiba and London. He also served as Music Director of the Curitiba Music Workshop in Brazil.

Throughout his career, he has conducted numerous leading orchestras, including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Prague Orchestra, Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra, Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Rhineland Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Porto National Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra (USA), and the National Orchestra of Venezuela, among many others.

He earned a Master's degree in Orchestral Conducting in Chicago and completed postgraduate studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the legendary conductor Ilya Musin. In 1999, he was a prizewinner at the Sergei Prokofiev Conducting Competition in Russia. He was awarded a Fellowship by the Aspen Music Festival, where he attended the American Conductors Academy. He also served as assistant to Claudio Abbado in Salzburg and Berlin, studied with Jorma Panula and David Zinman, and was a scholarship recipient of both the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.