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Orchestra: SInfonie Orchester Basel Conductor: Kristiina Poska Clarinet: Sérgio Pires Video and Audio: Elijah Reichen Website: Sérgio Fernandes Pires, born on 1st September 1995, is one of the most promising and artistically active clarinetists of his generation, being winner of several international competitions, performing many solo and Chamber music concerts, and being 1st Clarinet at the Musikkollegium Winterthur, since 2016. Started his musical studies at the age of 8, and in 2007 went to the „Academia de Música Valentim Moreira de Sá“, in Guimarães, where he studied until 2013 with Vitor Matos. After that, Pires moved to Basel, where he studied at the „Hochschule für Musik der Stadt Basel“, with François Benda, until 2018, finishing his Master „Performance-Solist“ with the highest distinction (6 point out of 6). Was laureate of more than a dozen of competitions, some of the most important being “Paços Premium” (2008), “I Terras de la-Sallete” (2008), “IV Terras de La-
