Coro Sinfónico Inês de Castro

With extensive experience in choral singing, the CSIC has been accompanied by several orchestras, in different venues in the country and abroad, conducted by conductors of recognized merit. They have already made the world premiere of symphonic choral works by contemporary Portuguese composers: Cantata Gnóstica, by Jorge Salgueiro (2012), Five Pieces of Character from the Inesiano Cycle, by Eurico Carrapatoso (2012) and Quasi un Requiem, by Nelson Jesus (2018) . In 2020, they performed the world premiere of the work TORGA, by Leonor Abrunheiro.
The repertoire of Portuguese music also includes Requiem à Memória de Camões, by Bomtempo, and Magnificat em Talha Dourada, by Eurico Carrapatoso.
They are familiar with much of the major choral rep:- Requiem by Mozart, Requiem by Verdi, Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini, Ninth Symphony by Beethoven, Christmas Oratory by Bach, Mass for Peace by Dan Forrest, Requiem by Eliza Gilkyson and many others. choruses of operas by Verdi. Every year since 2013, they have organized the COIMBRA REQUIEM CYCLE, a unique cultural and musical initiative in the country, which has brought together, during Lent, and in its large concert halls and emblematic monuments, dozens of orchestras, choirs, conductors and soloists. 

Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Symphonic Choir Inês de Castro - Artur Pinho Maria

Artur was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, academic choirs and regional choirs, having also conducted, as guest conductor, the Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, the Orquestra do Norte, the Orquestra op. 21, the Orquestra Espoarte, the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, the Orquestra Filarmonia de Gaia, the Orchestra of the Gaia Regional Conservatory Foundation and more recently the Orquestra da Ópera na Academia e na Cidade and the Inês de Castro Orchestra of the Ecos do Passado Association ( Coimbra).

Between 2015 and 2020 he was an invited assistant at the Department of Music at the University of Minho. Of the edited recordings, the first complete recording of notebooks I and II of “Fernando Lopes Graça – Portuguese Regional Songs” (2007) and the first recording on CD/DVD of the work Requiem Inês de Castro, by Pedro Macedo Camacho, stand out.
He is currently principal conductor and artistic director of the Coro Sinfônico Inês de Castro, the Coro do Porto de Aveiro, the Orfeão de Vale de Cambra and the Orfeon Académico de Coimbra, also guiding several courses in choral conducting and masterclasses in vocal technique.
He was founder and President of the Associação Ecos do Passado (2012-2018) in which he founded the Coro Sinfônico Inês de Castro. Since 2012 he has been the curator of the successive eight editions of the Coimbra Requiem Cycle. As Artistic Director he leads a team of professional musicians who are currently Naipe rehearsers, the soprano Leonor Barbosa de Melo, the contralto Leonor Abrunheiro, the tenor Ricardo Vicente and the bass João Barros.