DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble
Chamber ensemble
About DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble
DSCH—Shostakovich Ensemble was founded in 2006 by pianist and artistic director Filipe Pinto Ribeiro, the DSCH—Shostakovich Ensemble has been regarded over the past two decades as one of the leading chamber music groups on the international scene. Based in Lisbon since its creation, DSCH is a flexible ensemble and a dynamic platform for artistic collaboration among outstanding musicians. The ensemble takes its name from the composer Dmitry Shostakovich, as a tribute to the centenary of his birth in 2006. In 2008, DSCH became ensemble–in–residence at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon and has since appeared in numerous pres tigious concert series and festivals across several continents. Its wide–ranging repertoire embraces music from different peri ods and aesthetic traditions, from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to Shostakovich and Sofia Gubaidulina—with whom the ensem ble developed a particularly close artistic collaboration.
Since 2006, numerous concerts by the ensemble have been recorded and broadcast by the Portuguese national classical radio station RTP Antena 2, as well as by the Franco–German cultural television channel Mezzo. In 2018, the ensemble launched the DSCH —Shostakovich Ensemble Composition Prize, dedicated to celebrating the work of leading Portuguese composers. The ensemble’s critically acclaimed disc–ography includes the world premiere recording of the Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings by Dmitry Shostakovich (2016), as well as Beethoven’s Piano Trios Op. 11 and Op. 38 (2021), released and distributed by Paraty / Harmonia Mundi.
