César Nogueira
César Nogueira, originally from Coimbra, completed a degree in Music Education at the University of Aveiro in 2010. In 2021, he completed a Master’s degree in Performance, specialising in Early Music, at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Historical Musicology at the NOVA University Lisbon School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Alongside his academic training, he has attended masterclasses with Enrico Onofri (San Leo), Ryo Terakado and Susanne Scholz (Urbino), and Enrico Gatti (Casa de Mateus). In 2019, he performed as a soloist in La Primavera de La Risonanzain Milan, collaborating with Fabio Bonizzoni and John Holloway. In 2020 and the following year, he was a member of the Ensemble Academie organised by the Freiburger Barockorchester, where he studied with Gottfried von der Goltz and Petra Müllejans.
Throughout his professional career, he has had the opportunity to collaborate as a guest musician with numerous prestigious orchestras and ensembles, including Concerto Scirocco, Il Pomo d’Oro, L’Arpeggiata, Ludovice Ensemble, Ensemble Bonne Corde, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Concerto Campestre, and Divino Sospiro, among others. He is a member of the Real Câmara Baroque Orchestra, Orquestra Barroca D’Aquém Mar and, since 2009, the Casa da Música Baroque Orchestra.
He has worked under the direction of renowned conductors such as Laurence Cummings, Francesco Corti, Christophe Rousset, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Masaaki Suzuki, Hervé Niquet, Christina Pluhar, Sigiswald Kuijken, Andrew Parrott, Paul Hillier, Massimo Mazzeo, Harry Christophers, Diana Vinagre, Miguel Jalôto, and Mahan Esfahani.