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Álvaro Cassuto

Álvaro Cassuto is often ranked as Portugal's top orchestral conductor, and he has been active frequently both in the U.S. and in other European countries as well as in Portugal. He is also a noted composer. Cassuto was born in Porto, Portugal, on November 17, 1938. He studied composition in Lisbon, and in the 1960s he became one of Portugal's few members of the international compositional avant-garde. His Sinfonias breves of 1960 were Portugal's first compositions to make use of the serial method. He has continued to compose, mostly in orchestral genres. Cassuto earned a law degree from the University of Lisbon and then, armed with marketable skills, he enrolled as the Vienna Conservatory as a conducting student. Among his teachers was Herbert von Karajan. His conducting career took off quickly and for some years followed dual tracks in Portugal and the U.S., where he landed a post as assistant to Leopold Stokowski at the American Symphony Orchestra. Cassuto was promptly awarded the Koussevitzky Prize, a prestigious American conducting award, in 1969. He went on to music director positions at the University of California Symphony Orchestra from 1974 to 1979, the Rhode Island Symphony from 1979 to 1985, and the National Orchestra of New York from 1981 to 1987. He has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Savannah, Buffalo, and Tucson, as well as the Philharmonic Orchestra of North Carolina. In Portugal he was subdirector of the RDP Philharmonic from 1970 to 1975, when he was named conductor. He remained in that post until the orchestra's demise in 1989. Prior to that, he established the New Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra and served as its conductor. Cassuto has also been conductor and artistic director of the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the Algarve Orchestra. His European (and Middle Eastern) career includes stints as music director of the Raanana Symphony Orchestra in Israel (2000-2002) and the Bari Symphony Orchestra in Italy (2009-2011). He has made numerous guest appearances with top orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic in London, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of the Berlin Radio, the Paris Chamber Orchestra, the Leipzig Radio Orchestra, and the Philharmonica Hungarica. His many recordings include series on the Marco Polo and Naxos labels, including, on the latter label in 2018, a reading of the Piano Concerto of Portuguese composer Joly Braga Santos, with pianist Goran Filipec.
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