Eduardo Portal - Founder and Director
Eduardo Portal
Founder and Director
Eduardo Portal made his conducting debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in 2011 marking the beginning of a distinguished trajectory that has taken him to some of the world’s finest orchestras.
Eduardo has conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hallé, Scottish, Swedish, and Vienna Chamber Orchestras, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia Symphony Orchestras, Strasbourg Philharmonic, and many others. His performances include soloists like Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Pierre Laurent Aimard, Baiba Skride, and Javier Perianes, and have taken him to prestigious venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall in London, and Palau de la Música in Barcelona.
With decades of experience in education at the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Leeds, as well as collaborations with conservatoires across Europe, Eduardo’s focus on teaching has been present throughout his entire conducting career. This commitment to education led him to found Passion for Conducting in order to share the world-class instruction he had received with aspiring conductors.
Passion for Conducting has become a reference point for conducting education globally. The students of the academy are spread worldwide, and they have gone on to win international conducting competitions, start professional careers and secure debuts with major organisations including the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Paris Garnier Opera, and the Estonian National Opera.
Eduardo’s teaching approach is based on his work with conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Simon Rattle, Ivan Fischer, Maurizio Benini, and Sir Mark Elder. His students benefit both from the knowledge and insights inherited from these and other great masters.
His operatic experience includes work at prestigious festivals and opera houses: Glyndebourne, Dartington, Opera Rara, Opera North, Teatro Real Madrid, Opus Lírica, and the Royal Northern College of Music Opera.
Eduardo graduated as a Humboldt Scholar and as a La Caixa Scholar from the
University of the Arts Berlin and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and as
a Junior Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Eduardo Portal - Founder and Director
Eduardo Portal
Founder and Director
Eduardo Portal made his conducting debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in 2011 marking the beginning of a distinguished trajectory that has taken him to some of the world’s finest orchestras.
Eduardo has conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hallé, Scottish, Swedish, and Vienna Chamber Orchestras, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia Symphony Orchestras, Strasbourg Philharmonic, and many others. His performances include soloists like Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Pierre Laurent Aimard, Baiba Skride, and Javier Perianes, and have taken him to prestigious venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall in London, and Palau de la Música in Barcelona.
With decades of experience in education at the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Leeds, as well as collaborations with conservatoires across Europe, Eduardo’s focus on teaching has been present throughout his entire conducting career. This commitment to education led him to found Passion for Conducting in order to share the world-class instruction he had received with aspiring conductors.
Passion for Conducting has become a reference point for conducting education globally. The students of the academy are spread worldwide, and they have gone on to win international conducting competitions, start professional careers and secure debuts with major organisations including the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Paris Garnier Opera, and the Estonian National Opera.
Eduardo’s teaching approach is based on his work with conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Simon Rattle, Ivan Fischer, Maurizio Benini, and Sir Mark Elder. His students benefit both from the knowledge and insights inherited from these and other great masters.
His operatic experience includes work at prestigious festivals and opera houses: Glyndebourne, Dartington, Opera Rara, Opera North, Teatro Real Madrid, Opus Lírica, and the Royal Northern College of Music Opera.
Eduardo graduated as a Humboldt Scholar and as a La Caixa Scholar from the
University of the Arts Berlin and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and as
a Junior Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.