Real name: Orquestra Gulbenkian

Effective period / Period of releases: 1972 - 2015

Members: Alexandra Mendes, Lawrence Foster, Jeremy Lake, Jorge Teixeira, Cecília Branco, António Miranda, Elena Ryabova, Pedro Pacheco, Isabel Pimentel, Ana Beatriz Manzanilla, Amílcar Gameiro, Maria Balbi, Leonor Braga Santos, Samuel Barsegian, Pedro Ribeiro (3), Otto Pereira, Marco Pereira (2), Iva Barbosa, Raquel Reis, Nelson Alves (4), David Burt (3), Jonathan Luxton, Kenneth Best, Cyril Dupuy, Esther Georgie, David Lefèvre, Joao Seara, Pedro Canhoto, Rui Sul Gomes, Varoujan Bartikian, Oleguer Beltran

Portuguese orchestra.

In 1962 the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) established a permanent orchestral body, which initially consisted of only twelve pieces (chords and continuo group), originally designated as Gulbenkian Chamber Orchestra. This collective was successively enlarged up to the point where today the Orquestra Gulbenkian (the name it has adopted since 1971) counts upon a permanent body of sixty six instrumentalists.