Duo Baleiro/Costa

André Baleiro (Baritone, Portugal) / Pedro Costa (Piano, Portugal)

The Portuguese Duo started its collaboration in 2016. Recently, they were prizewinners of the Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in Vienna. Baritone André Baleiro is the prizewinner of the Emmerich Smola Award, the International Robert Schumann Competition and received a special prize at the Das Lied International Song Competition. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Kammersänger Siegfried Lorenz and Axel Bauni. Pianist Pedro Costa studied Piano in Brussels with Piet Kuijken and Liedgestaltung in Graz with Joseph Breinl and Julius Drake. He currently works as an accompanist at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

Photo: Mara D'Eleán

  • Franz Schubert: Sehnsucht D 636 (Friedrich von Schiller)
  • Aribert Reimann: Ein Lied in der Wüste, aus: Fünf Gedichte von Paul Celan, Nr. 5 (Paul Celan)
  • David Philip Hefti: Paradis, aus: E las culurs dals tuns, Nr. 1 (Bibi Vaplan)
  • Charles Ives: from "The Swimmers" (Louis Untermeye)
  • Luciano Correa Barraza: Vértigo (Alessandra Molina)*
  • Franz Schubert: Über Wildemann D 884 (Ernst Schulze)
  • Franz Schubert: Im Frühling D 882 (Ernst Schulze)
  • Francis Poulenc: Amoureuses, aus: Cinq Poèmes de Paul Éluard FP 77, Nr. 5 (Paul Éluard)
  • Viktor Ullmann: Lob des Weines, aus: Liederbuch des Hafis Op. 30, Nr. 4 (Hans Bethge)

 

*Preisträgerwerk des Kompositionswettbewerbs Liedduo 2020

 

  • Franz Schubert: Freiwilliges Versinken D 700 (Johann Mayrhofer)
  • David Philip Hefti: Ninglur, aus: E las culurs dals tuns, Nr. 11 (Bibi Vaplan)
  • Franz Schubert: Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen D 698 (Franz von Schlechta)
  • Wolfgang Rihm: Die Frau in mir, aus: Neue Alexanderlieder, Nr. 6 (Ernst Herbeck)
  • Luca Lombardi: Denkmal für einen Indianer (Friedrich Christian)
  • Franz Schubert: Normans Gesang D 846 (Adam Storck)
  • Aribert Reimann: Vor dem Schloss in den Bäumen es, aus: Nachtstück, Nr. 3 (Joseph von Eichen)
  • Francis Poulenc: Rôdeuse au front de verre, aus: Cinq poèmes de Paul Éluard FP 77, Nr. 4 (Paul Éluard)
  • Wolfgang Rhim: Ich mag euch alle nicht, aus: Neue Alexanderlieder, Nr. 3 (Ernst Herbeck)
  • Judith Weir, On White Meadows (commissioned work handed to the finalists approx. 36h before the finals)
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara: October, aus: Maailman uneen (Dream), Nr. 1 (Aaro Hellakoski)
  • Franz Schubert: Dass sie hier gewesen D 775 (Friedrich Rückert)
  • Fernando Lopes-Graca: Magnificat, aus: 4 Momentos de Álvaro de, Nr. 4 (Álvaro de Campos)
  • Franz Schubert: Der Zwerg D 771 (Heinrich von Collin)

André Baleiro

André Baleiro won the Emmerich Smola "SWR Young Opera Stars" Award in 2019, the 17th International Robert Schumann Competition and the 9th Rotary Foundation’s Singing Competition in Lisbon in 2016. In addition, he was awarded the prize of the prestigious Das Lied International Song Competition in 2017 as well as 2nd prize at the Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition 2021 in Vienna.

His operatic highlights include “Tarquinius" in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon, "Figaro" in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and “Kaspar" in the new production Kaspar Hauser (Schubert/Wilgenbus) with the Munich Chamber Opera, "Don Parmenione" in Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro at the Teatro Perez Galdos in Las Palmas, and Orphée by Philip Glass at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon.

Numerous concert tours have taken the young baritone to France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Japan, and Switzerland. His broad repertoire includes Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, Bach's passions and cantatas, Handel's Dixit Dominus and Dettinger's Te Deum, Dvořák's Mass in D Major, the Requiems by Fauré, Duruflé and Brahms, Ravel's Don Quixote à Dulcinée, the Dona Nobis Pacem Cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams, L'enfance du Christ by Berlioz, and Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder.

He has collaborated with conductors, such as Michel Corboz, Steffan Blunier, Frédéric Chaslin, Graeme Jenkins, Martin André, Moritz Gnann, Antonio Pirolli, Andreas Spering, Joana Carneiro, Nabil Shehata and Lorenzo Viotti.

André Baleiro also enjoys a significant activity as a recitalist, focusing not only on the great works of the 19th and early 20th century, but also in romantic and contemporary music.

The Portuguese baritone began his musical studies at the Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa in his hometown. After completing his bachelor’s degree in Choral Conducting at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, André Baleiro studied singing under the tuition of Kammersänger Siegfried Lorenz, song with Eric Schneider and contemporary song with Axel Bauni at the Berlin University of the Arts. He received further musical guidance in masterclasses with acclaimed singers, such as Tom Krause, Ian Bostridge, Lorenzo Regazzo and José van Dam.

André Baleiro received scholarships from the Walter & Charlotte Hamel Foundation in Hanover and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. He currently works regularly with Snežena Stamenković in Mannheim.

Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa is a Portuguese collaborative pianist based in Vienna. He currently holds a position as Senior Lecturer for Accompanying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He was the prizewinner of the Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in Vienna, the Louis-Spohr-Competition for Lieder Accompaniment in Kassel as well as at other major competitions in Portugal and Belgium like the New Tenuto and the Estoril National Competition. He was also awarded with the Accompanist Prize at the Rotary Foundation’s Singing Competition in Lisbon and with the 1st prize at the Chamber Music Competition of the Portuguese Radio. He has played in many European concert halls, including Wigmore Hall in London, Große Saal Mozarteum in Salzburg, Flagey in Brussels, Casa da Música in Porto, CCB, Teatro S. Carlos and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon.

He worked in masterclasses with Udo Reinemann, Christianne Stotijn, Anne Sophie von Otter, Peter Schreier, Christoph Prégardien, Brigitte Fassbaender, Sir Thomas Allen among others. Pedro Costa regularly accompanies singers, such as Peter Kellner, André Baleiro, Laure-Catherine Beyers, Josh Lovell, Coline Dutilleul, Marina Pacheco and Tiago Matos.

Born in 1989 in Mação, Pedro Costa studied at Porto’s Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (Portugal), the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Belgium), and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria) where he studied Vocal Accompaniment with Joseph Breinl and Julius Drake.