Jorge Chaminé

Jorge Chaminé, born in April 1956 in Porto, is a Portuguese operatic baritone.

Of Spanish and Portuguese parentage, he began his musical studies (piano, voice, cello, guitar, choral and orchestra conducting) at an early age.

After studying law at Coimbra University, he decided to become a singer and received a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation to further his studies in Madrid, Paris, Munich, and in New York City with personalities like Lola Rodriguez Aragon, Teresa Berganza and Hans Hotter. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has also performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, among others. In 1988, he won the Menuhin Foundation Award and started to perform internationally under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin. He has appeared with Claudio Scimone, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Plácido Domingo, Michel Corboz, and Ros Marbà, and appeared in opera performances and concerts alongside Mirella Freni, Montserrat Caballé and Teresa Berganza.

He is president-Artistic Director of the CIMA Festival in Monte Argentario, Tuscany. He is also vice-president of the Georges Bizet Association and a member of the Board of Directors of Music in ME International and president of Music in ME France. He was nominated Music Ambassador of the organisation Music in ME (Music in Middle East) at the Unesco in May 2005 and received the Human Rights Medal of the Unesco.

He is the chair and founder of the Centre Européen de Musique.

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He is the co-artistic director of Via Scarlatti I Culture and Innovation as the Soul of Europe, together with Guta Moura Guedes.

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