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Nuno Coelho
Nuno Coelho

About Nuno

Chief Conductor & Artistic Director: Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias

Nuno has been Chief Conductor of Spain’s Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias since October 2022. In December 2024 the orchestra extended his contract though to July 2027.

The 2025/26 season sees Nuno return to Antwerp Symphony, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Orquesta Nacional de España, Gulbenkian Orchestra and Bilbao Symphony, and debut with BBC Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Trondheim Symphony, Västerås Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia at London’s Barbican Centre. He also conducts Spain's National Youth Orchestra (JONDE) at the Konzerthaus Berlin and Rheingau Musik Festival.

Highlights of the previous three seasons have included concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Frankfurt's hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orquestra Sinfônica de São Paulo, Tampere Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.

Nuno’s opera credits include a semi-staging of Così fan tutte and José Saramago’s reimagining of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, both at the Gulbenkian. He has also conducted productions of La traviata, Cavalleria rusticana, Rusalka and Manon, and will return to Ópera de Oviedo for Manon Lescaut in 2026.

Nuno won First Prize at the 2017 Cadaqués International Conducting Competition and has gone on to conduct all the top orchestras in Spain and Portugal. He was a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Fellow between 2018-19 and stepped in for Bernard Haitink that same season to debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

Nuno is based in Vienna

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Hannah Reid Dick

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

General management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Ibermusica (Spain)

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Season Highlights

Aug 2025
Konzerthaus, Berlin
Albéniz: Excerpts from Iberia (arr. Francisco Guerrero) Fabià Santcovsky: Concierto de los Elementos I & II Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Francisco Fullana (violin) Joven Orquesta Nacional de España
Aug 2025
Town Hall, Adelaide
Dvořák: Otello Overture Prokofiev: Concerto for Violin No. 2 Smetana: Vltava from Má Vlast Janáček: Taras Bulba Kate Suthers (violin) Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Sep 2025
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid
Turina: Danzas Fantásticas Bernaola: Nostálgico para piano y orquesta R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite Orquesta Nacional de España
Oct 2025
Olavshallen, Trondheim
Rameau: Les Indes galantes Suite Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Jan 2026
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Albéniz: El Albaicín from Ibéria Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Ives: Symphony No. 2 Andrew Hamilton (baritone) BBC Symphony Orchestra
Feb 2026
Barbican Centre, London
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Fleur Barron (mezzo) Pavel Černoch (tenor) Lemi Ponifasio (director) The Theatre of Kiribati Britten Sinfonia
Apr 2026
Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp
Tabakova: Rewilding Ravel: Piano Concerto for Left Hand Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Apr 2026
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid
Manchado: Suite de La Regenta Sibelius: Violin Concerto Shostakovich: Symphony no. 6 Bomsori (violin) Orquesta Nacional de España
May 2026
Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Bacewicz: Overture Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra Ingrid Fliter (piano) Gulbenkian Orchestra

News

Press

  • Mozart, Adès and Strauss with Tampere Philharmonic

    Tampere-talo, Finland
    Sep 2022
    • Vähän yli kolmekymppinen Coelho teki inspiroivan debyytin Tampereella. Tämän konsertin perusteella hän voi edetä urallaan vaikka minkälaisiin korkeuksiin. Hänessä on temperamenttja ja tarkkuutta, ja elekieli viestii puhdasta musiikkia ilman minkäänlaista teatraalisuutta. Coelho, in his early thirties, made an inspiring debut in Tampere. On the basis of this concert, he can go to any number of heights in his career. He has temperament and precision, and his gestures convey pure music without any theatricality. ★★★★★

  • Beethoven with Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

    Galicia, Spain
    Oct 2020
    • Sin caer en la tentación de acentuar sus aristas, Coelho demostró la calidad de su batuta y de su inspiración dando vida a una interpretación noble y serena que supo trasladar al público la esencia de tan sublime partitura. Without falling into the temptation of accentuating its edges, Coelho demonstrated the quality of his baton and his inspiration, giving life to a noble and serene interpretation that knew how to convey to the audience the essence of such a sublime score.

    • La versión de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia al mando de Nuno Coelho fue impecable, cuidadosa, consciente del lenguaje y de su significado. El joven (Oporto, 1989), premiado —en el Concurso de Cadaqués, por ejemplo— y suficientemente preparado maestro portugués firmó luego una magnífica versión de la Pastoral beethoveniana en la que mostró, junto a una orquesta muy concentrada, no sólo competencia técnica sino una idea muy clara de la partitura en la que, a mi entender, destacó el modo de tratar el segundo movimiento, con una delectación casi al límite, demorado pero clarísimo, definiendo muy bien cada plano sonoro —fue una excelente idea la de colocar primeros y segundos violines enfrentados—, cuidando enormemente cada mínimo detalle dinámico con naturalidad y sin aspavientos. The version of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia conducted by Nuno Coelho was impeccable, careful, aware of the language and its meaning. The young (Oporto, 1989), award-winning - e.g. at the Cadaqués Competition - and sufficiently prepared Portuguese maestro then conducted a magnificent version of the Beethovenian Pastoral in which he showed, together with a very concentrated orchestra, not only technical competence but also a very clear idea of the score. In my opinion, the way he treated the second movement stood out, with a delectation almost to the limit, delayed but very clear, defining each sound plane very well - it was an excellent idea to place first and second violins facing each other -, taking great care of every minimum dynamic detail with naturalness and without fuss.

  • Beethoven with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

    Munich
    Feb 2019
    • Coelho distinguished himself in the way he charted the music’s course from a wonderfully still choral opening to the exuberance of the full forces in the final bars.