Luís Rendas Pereira

Luís Rendas Pereira

Baritone
Luís Rendas Pereira has regularly appeared as a soloist in opera, oratorio and song. His operatic engagements include leading roles such as the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, and Masetto in Don Giovanni, as well as roles in Donizetti’s Il campanello di notte and Rita. He has also performed Bob in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, Ben in Menotti’s The Telephone, the Journalist in Luís Soldado’s Não há machado que corte, and Uberto in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona. He has worked with stage directors including Claudio Hochman, Paulo Lapa, Kevin Phela, Roberto T. Vecchia and José Rui Martins. He has sung with the Filarmonia das Beiras Orchestra, the Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra, ESMAE and Zêzere Festival Arts, under the direction of conductors such as A. Vassalo Lourenço, J. Ferreira Lobo, Brian Mackay, Bruno Burralhinho and Rui Pinheiro, among others.
In the realm of oratorio and concert performance, his repertoire includes Charpentier’s Te Deum, the role of Adam in Haydn’s The Creation, and solo parts in Bach cantatas BWV 6, 36, 62 and 133, as well as the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth cantatas of the Christmas Oratorio. His repertoire also includes Bach’s Magnificat (recorded for RTP), the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. He also performs Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, Schubert’s Mass in C major (Hob. XXII:5), and Monteverdi’s Vespers. He has sung the solo parts in the Requiem settings of Mozart, Fauré, Duruflé and Delius. He has served as the baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Jorge Salgueiro’s Cantata Gnóstica. He has performed with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Filarmonia das Beiras, the Madeira Classical Orchestra, the Baroque Orchestra of Casa da Música, the Espinho Classical Orchestra, the Orquestra do Norte, the Orquestra do Centro, the Remix Ensemble, the ESART Orchestra, the Baroque Orchestra of ESMAE, and the Ludovice Ensemble, among others. In addition to the conductors already mentioned, he has been directed by Hervé Niquet, Laurence Cummings, Paul Hillier, Sofi Jeannin, Sergio Alapont, Martin Lutz, Cesário Costa, Baldur Brönnimann, Miguel Jaloto and Gonçalo Lourenço. A significant part of his activity is dedicated to recitals with piano, with particular emphasis on Portuguese art song. He has performed with pianists such as Rita Seara, Pedro Costa and Taíssa Cunha, among others.

He began his studies at the Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa and later joined the Higher Music Course at the University of Aveiro, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Music and a Master’s degree in Music Education under the supervision of Isabel Alcobia. He completed a postgraduate course in Opera at ESMAE.
He is currently continuing his training with Professor Abbie Furmansky, and his development has been shaped by the regular work with Susan Waters and Pierre Mak. He has participated in numerous national and international singing masterclasses, notably with Nelly Miriciou, Håkan Hagegård, Stephen Robertson, Ulrika Sonntag and António Salgado, as well as interpretation masterclasses with João Paulo Santos, Enza Ferrari, Wolfgang Holzmair and Miquel Ortega Pujol.
He was awarded the First Prize (ex aequo) at the Santa Cecília Competition in 2013 and the Third Prize at the 15th Cidade do Fundão Competition in 2014 and 2016. He was a finalist in the 11th and 12th Rotary Foundation Singing Competition, receiving the prize for “Best Interpretation of a Foreign Song” (2021) and the Richard Wagner Circle Prize (2023), of which he is a scholarship holder. He also won Second Prize at the José Augusto Alegria Competition (Évora) in 2021.

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