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Hugo is a young Portuguese cellist. He is passionate and entirely dedicated to the music he leads to the audience. In 2018, Hugo joined Christoph Richter’s class at the Royal Academy of Music for Masters of Arts Cello Performance Diploma with Guilhermina Suggia Scholarship awarded by the institution, where he completes his master's degree with First Class Honours Distinction and now holds the title DipRAM (Diploma Royal Academy of Music). From an early age he developed a strong interest in the solo cello repertoire, and in 2019 received the Derek Simpson Award and recently won the 2nd Prize at the David Martin/Florence Hooton Concert Prize. These achievements allowed him to play with a cello made by the Gagliano family in Naples c.1770, which was kindly lent by the museum of the Royal Academy of Music. His appearances with orchestras, such as Royal Academy Manson Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Estágio Gulbenkian, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orquestra XXI, included several opportunities to perform under conducting of Semyon Bychkov, Sir Mark Elder, Hannu Lintu, Frédéric Chaslin, Pablo Heras-Casado, Lorenzo Viotti, Alexander Liebreich, Myung-Whun Chung, Giancarlo Guerrero, Lawrence Foster, John Nelson, Quentin Hindley, Maxime Pascal, Pascal Verrot, Emilio Pomàrico, Mykola Diadiura, Michael Zilm, Joana Carneiro, Dinis Sousa, in some prestigious concert halls across Portugal, UK and Spain. Hugo has participated in masterclasses and worked with Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Steven Doane, Johannes Moser, Márcio Carneiro, Sung-Won Yang, Colin Carr, Amit Peled, Denis Severin, Peter Brüns, Xavier Gangnepain, among others. Recent chamber music engagements included piano trios, Quatuor Aquarelle which has been accepted for the Frost ASSET scheme at the Royal Academy of Music in 2018, masterclass from Hartmut Rohde, and coaching with the Doric String Quartet. In the 2021 and 2022 season, Hugo performs as an intern of the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (OML), under the musical and artistic direction of maestro Pedro Neves. From 2023, Hugo collaborates with Gulbenkian Orchestra as a tutti substitute.