Filipe Fernandes

Born in Funchal, Filipe Fernandes began his violin studies at the age of six with teacher Nana Khachkalyan at the “Gabinete Coordenador de Educação Artística”, and later joined the Professional Instrumentalist course at the Conservatório-Escola Profissional das Artes da Madeira, Eng . .o Luíz Peter Clode, in Professor Norberto Gomes's violin class, after having concluded it with the maximum classification. In 2013, Filipe was concertmaster of the Youth Orchestra of the Official Music Conservatories of Portugal, in Lisbon, under the direction of maestro Jean Sébastien Béreau.
Filipe is regularly invited to work as a substitute musician in some of the most important orchestras in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Rotterdam.
Considered one of the most promising Portuguese violinists of his generation, he was invited to perform as a soloist with the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira and in 2019 was a finalist in the International Leonid Kogan Competition in Brussels, having received his bachelor's degree at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, in the class of Ilya Grubert and Maria Milstein.