MiguelSepúlveda

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About Miguel

Runnicles Fellow: Dresdner Philharmonie Dudamel Fellow: Los Angeles Philharmonic (25/26) Designate Winner (Finalist): Rotterdam International Conducting Competition 2025

Miguel Sepúlveda is the inaugural Donald Runnicles Fellow at the Dresdner Philharmonie and makes his subscription debut with the orchestra in September 2025. He is also a Dudamel Fellow for the 2025/26 season, and will conduct the LA Phil in concerts around Los Angeles county in December 2025.

Miguel will compete as a Designate Winner (Finalist) in the 2025 International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam, having previously reached the semi-final of the 2024 Malko Competition where he conducted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in works by Mozart, Mahler and Tchaikovsky.

Other recent highlights include debuts with the Münchener Kammerorchester and Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, while forthcoming dates include returns to the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música.

Born in Lisbon in 1998, Miguel studied under Jean Marc Burfin and finished his Masters at the Royal Northern College of Music, going on to conduct the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Manchester Camerata. In 2022 he won Portugal’s Prémio Jovens Músicos.

Miguel is based in Lisbon

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Antonio Orlando

Antonio Orlando

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Holly Cartwright

Holly Cartwright

Assistant Artist Manager

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Casa da Musica, Porto
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances Saint-Saëns: Dance Macabre Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (selection) Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto
Sep 2024
Lisbon
Lopes Graça: Sinfonietta Mozart: Concerto for Harp and Flute Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, "Classical" Metropolitana Orchestra Lisbon
Nov 2024
Staatstheater, Darmstadt
Brahms: Tragic Overture Küßner: Concerto for Alto Saxophone Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 Salvatore Alessandro Miceli (saxohone) Deutsche Philharmonie Merck
Jan 2025
Lisbon
Strauss: Frühlingsstimmen Filipe Raposo: valsa da noite Strauss: Fledermaus Overture Strauss: Pizzicato Polka Braga Santos: Encruzilhada-Dança Geral Strauss: Zigeunerbaron Strauss: Tritsch Tratsch Polka Frederico de Freitas: Suite Medieval Strauss: Unter donner und blitz Strauss: An der schönen blauen Donau Metropolitana Orchestra Lisbon
Feb 2025
Casa da Musica, Porto
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Mozart: Symphony No. 35 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto
Jun 2025
Rotterdam
Programme TBA Rotterdam Conducting Competition Finals

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  • Marvao Festival

    Marvao, Portugal
    Jul 2023

    • At 25, Miguel Sepúlveda made his guest conductor debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra. His careful direction full of elegance, his gestures clear as the waters of Rio Coura and sharp as the rocks of the Algarve, made him a talent to follow very very closely... We would be wise to bring him to France without delay. (...) All the desks breathing together, in a huge hundred-bar messa di voce. De la dentelle!