Sérgio Pires

As soloist, Sérgio Pires has performed with renowned orchestras in Europe; since 2016 he is the principal clarint player with the Winterthur MusikKollegium (CH). He participated in recordings for BIS, Genuin, MDG and Orpheus.
As a highly requested chamber musician Sérgio Pires regularly performs with famous artists like Heinz Holliger, Michael Collins, Valentin Erben, Felix Renggli, Daniel Haefliger, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Emmanuel Abbuehl and many others. Sérgio Pires meanwhile took part in some of the most important and acclaimed classical music festivals in the world, such as European Music Campus (Austria), Kultursommer Nordhessen (Germany), BBC Proms (England), Schleswig-Holstein Festival (Germany), Isang-Yun Festival (South-Korea), East Neuk Festival (Scotland) and Festival Bozen (Italy).
As an orchestral player, Pires has had, since very young age, a very active activity, being accepted at the age of 18 in 3 of the most important young orchestras in the world, the European Union Youth Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. Later on, was invited to play with different orchestras in Europe and around the wolrd and has shared the stage with many prestigious soloists, such as Vilde Frang, Mischa Maisky, Fazil Say, Vladimir Ashkenazy and many more.
The young clarinetist, born in 1995, started his musical studies at the age of 8. In 2007 he went to the Academia de Música Valentim Moreira de Sá, in Guimarães, where he studied until 2013 with Vitor Matos. After that, Pires moved to Basel, where he studied with François Benda at the Hochschule für Musik der Stadt Basel, finishing his Master Performance-Solist with the highest distinction (6 point out of 6) in 2018.

Since 2016, he is a Henry Selmer Artist (Playing a Set of Recital Clarinets) and Silverstein Works Artist (Playing on Cryo 4 Ligature). Sérgio Pires is a scholar of the Mozartgesellschaft Dortmund (Germany).