Eduardo Alcântara dos Santos

Eduardo Alcântara-Double bass
Academic Background
Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa from 2012-2024 with Miguel Leiria
Pereira and Vanessa Lima. Escuela Superior Reina Sofía from 2024-2025 until 2025/2026
with Wies de Boeve and Antonio García Araque, Hanns eisler with Gunars Upatnieks from
2026/2027.
Professors/Colaborations
During my small career I have had the opportunity to work with several musicians like
Marco Testori, Janne Saksala, Jacques Zoon, Nicolás Crosse, Théotime Voisin, Petru Iuga,
Brendan Kane, Zlatomir Fung, Leo Genet, Kiril Zlotnikov, Yo Yo ma, Gunars Upatnieks,
Lucas Macias, Joseph Richter, José Trigo, Lars Anders Tomter, Miguel da Silva, Catherine
Strynckx.
Conductors like Andres Orozco Estrada, Ernst Schelle, Dave Anderson, Kent Nagano, Sir
Elliot Gardiner, Josep Caballé Domenech, Stanislav Kochanovsky and Daniel Harding.
Internships
Grafenegg Festival 2026, Lucerne Festival Academy 2025, Encuentro Santander 2025 and
2026, Gustav Mahler Academy 2025 and 2026, MACH Project in Festival Musica Sull’acqua
2023 and 2026, Moritzburg Festival 2023 and 2024, Verão Clássico 2022/ 2023 and 2024.
Premieres
Guillem Palomar, Georg Friedrich Haas, Fabian Panisello, Daniel Schvetz, Ângela da
Ponte, Salvador Bastos Pinto, Onir Garcia and Pedro Rocha.
Ensembles
Collaborations
“Orquestra Sinfónica de Madrid”, “Divino Suspiro”, “PluralEnsemble” “Madrid Festival
Orchestra” and Orquestra Freixenet, Camerata, Sinfonietta from Escuela Reina Sofia along
with my own ensemble “Palazzo 1700” 2 violins, bass and different lutes.
Awards
1st prize in the chamber music competition jovem.com with an early music group in
2023 and in 2024 with Piano trio with double bass formation, Absolute 1st prize in Fanny
Mendelssohn International Competition, 1st prize in Charleston contemporary music
competition 2023, 3rd prize in Verão clássico 2022 chamber music awards, 1st prize in
WBMC double bass F category, 1st prize in the Vasco Barbosa competition in 2021 and
2023 (junior division), 1st prize in the AMAC competition in categories A and B, 1st prize in
Concurso Jovem 2023 (CJ (an interpretation competition between all instrumentalists of all
the conservatories of Portugal)).
Halls
Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Concertgebouw, Konzerthaus Berlin, KKL Luzern.