Conductor and European Young Leader Eduardo Portal made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011 at the Royal Festival Hall, and went on to conduct more than twenty performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, he has conducted a wide range of international orchestras, including the Philharmonia, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hallé, the Scottish, Swedish, and Vienna Chamber Orchestras, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia Symphony Orchestras, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, the WDR Radio Orchestra in Cologne, and the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, among many others — as well as the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand, the Colombian National Symphony, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, and orchestras in Heidelberg, Mainz, and Frankfurt.

He has performed with soloists including Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Baiba Skride, and Javier Perianes, and on stages including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Royal Albert Hall, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, and the Sala São Paulo. His opera work spans Glyndebourne and Dartington Opera Festivals, Opera Rara, Opera North, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Royal Northern College of Music Opera.

Eduardo graduated as a Humboldt Scholar and 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, gaining further experience through collaboration with Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Simon Rattle, Iván Fischer, Maurizio Benini, and Sir Mark Elder. He is fluent in English, German, and Spanish. He is the founder of Antares Ensemble in Spain, focused on contemporary repertoire, and has recorded for CD with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Chineke! Orchestra.

Over the past seven years, Eduardo has coached hundreds of professional conductors, developing a clear, tested framework for what actually gets a conducting career moving — and built PCA to teach it directly, wherever in the world you're based. He is the teacher and mentor to the winners and finalists of numerous international conducting competitions, including the Winner of La Maestra 2026, the Winner of the Vittorio Antonellini International Conducting Competition 2026, the Winner of the Cascais Conducting Competition 2026, the Winner of the Swarovski Competition 2025, the Winner of the American Prize in Conducting 2025, a Finalist at the Liechtenstein Conducting Competition 2026, a Prize Winner at the Second International Orchestra's Conductors Competition, and a Prize Winner at the New York Classical Music Competition 2026.