MiguelSepúlveda

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About Miguel

Runnicles Fellow (Assistant Conductor): Dresdner Philharmonie Designate Winner (Finalist): Rotterdam International Conducting Competition 2024-25

Miguel Sepúlveda is the inaugural Runnicles Fellow at the Dresdner Philharmonie and a Designate Winner (Finalist) in the forthcoming Rotterdam International Conducting Competition. He previously reached the semifinal of the 2024 Malko Competition where he conducted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Forthcoming highlights for Miguel include debuts with Dresdner Philharmonie, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck and Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, as well as returns to Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and Orquestra Metropolitana.

Miguel won Portugal’s Prémio Jovens Músicos in 2022. The following year, he conducted Puccini's Suor Angelica at Operafest Lisboa and made his debut with Gulbenkian Orchestra – resulting in an immediate reinvitation.

In the United Kingdom Miguel has conducted the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata, in addition to assisting Domingo Hindoyan and Vasily Petrenko at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

Born in Lisbon in 1998, Miguel studied under Jean Marc Burfin and finished his Masters at the Royal Northern College of Music with Mark Heron and Clark Rundell.

Miguel is based in Lisbon

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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

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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!