Jorge Chaminé
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Jorge Chaminé (born 30 April 1956 in Porto, Portugal) is a famous Portuguese operatic baritone.
Of Spanish and Portuguese parentage, he began his musical studies (piano, voice, cello, guitar, choral and orchestra conducting) at an early age. After studying law at Coimbra University, he decided to become a singer and received a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation to further his studies in Madrid, Paris, Munich, and in New York City (Juilliard School) with personalities like Lola Rodriguez Aragon, Teresa Berganza and Hans Hotter.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has also performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. In 1988, he won the Menuhin Foundation Award which led him to perform internationally under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin. He has appeared with Claudio Scimone, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Plácido Domingo, Michel Corboz, and Ros Marbà, and appeared in opera performances and concerts alongside Mirella Freni, Montserrat Caballé and Teresa Berganza.
He is also considered as one of the most interesting recital performers: he sings every season in leading venues including Carnegie Hall, Theâtre des Champs-Elysées, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gulbenkian and at leading international music festivals. He is equally at home in the English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages and repertory.
He is a regular performer of tango, boleros, gypsy songs, fado and the songs of Vinicius de Moraes and Jobim—the music and languages of his own origins. His recordings of tangos have been met with critical acclaim worldwide and won several awards. He has recorded for Lyrinx, RCA, Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, ADDA, Sons Croisés/Exodos and BMG.
Chaminé has won a number of honours, prizes and awards. He was awarded a Human Rights Medal from UNESCO in recognition for his work for abandoned children. He is frequently invited as a guest teacher and gives master classes in a number of music academies in Europe, USA, Canada and Brazil. He is at the origin of a workshop for musicians of all disciplines which is held regularly at the Spanish College in Paris (Colegio de España). More than 200 musicians from 47 countries worked with him in these Workshops.
Jorge Chaminé was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of Music In ME organisation (Music in the Middle East) on May 11, 2005 at the UNESCO.
He is Director of the Concertante Foundation and president-Artistic Director of the CIMA Festival in Tuscany. He is also vice-president of the Georges Bizet Association.
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