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Entering 7th Season as Music Director for the Amarillo Symphony.
Studied under eminent teachers Gustav Meier, Robert Spano, and Kurt Masur. Graduate of the Juilliard School, the Peabody Institute and the Aspen Music Festival.
Bairos is breaking down musical, collaborative and artistic barriers. Working simultaneously with today's most acclaimed classical artists, such as Jeremy Denk, Garrick Ohlsson and Jennifer Koh, as well with cross-over artists such as Wyclef Jean, Macy Gray, Jacob Collier, Robert Glasper, Jon Batiste, Kishi Bashi, tUnE-yArDs, and Ben Folds.
Profoundly committed to new music, emerging composers and interdisciplinary performances, Bairos has commissioned and premiered over 60 major works from composers and artists such as Mason Bates, Kishi Bashi, Adam Schoenberg, Robert Glasper, Magda Giannikou, Chris Rogerson, and Andy Akiho, to name but a few. Bairos has crafted interactive educational initiatives and concerts which serve over 10,000 young people each year. He co-created Nu Deco Ensemble’s Imagine Series and Nu Deco Nxt (Youth Ensemble) developed Amarillo’s Class Act and Symphony Kids, collaborates with Carnegie Hall’s Link-Up programs, and designed the Amarillo Symphony’s Young Composers initiative with West Texas A&M Music Department.
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At-A-Glance
Recent debuts include the Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Annually collaborates with the Symphonies of San Francisco, Atlanta, GrandRapids, Sarasota, and co-curated the National Symphony's highly successful De-Classified series from 2015 - 2018.
Co-Founder and Artistic Director for Nu DecoEnsemble, Miami’s eclectic, 21st-century genre- bending chamber orchestra.
Fun FactsBairos is an accomplished and award-winning tuba-player, having performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony and Pops. He served as principal Tuba for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
Jacomo is both a teacher and practitioner of Vinyasa Yoga and Vipassana Meditation.
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Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Jacomo resides in Miami, Florida, where he actively dedicates time to the the National Young Arts Foundation, the Greater Miami Youth Symphony, and presents education and outreach initiatives in the migrant communities of Homestead Florida.
— Providence Journal
[Bairos'] music-making is world class. I’ve never heard a better live account of Prokofiev’s glorious Romeo and Juliet ballet score. It was as though I were hearing it for the first time. There was incredible control, going from rafter-rattling explosions to dreamy whispers in an instant. This was hands-down one of the most thrilling showings from the Philharmonic that I can recall. Bairos proved to be a ferocious conductor, sometimes leading the orchestra with the grace of a ballerina, sometimes with the power of a prizefighter closing in on a knockout.
— Billboard
Nu Deco assisted the Cuban Latin Grammy-nominated artist in delivering what is being described as a sonically spellbinding experience.
— Saratoga Living
Occasionally, you see or hear something that blows your mind. Last night (August 13), the Nu Deco Ensemble at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) was exactly that. The Miami-based group made their New York debut with an evening of fiery, captivating and refreshingly original music.
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— Theater Jones, Fort Worth Symphony
Bairos’ style was engaging and thoughtful, with an endearing sense of expression that translated beautifully through the orchestra’s execution. His full-bodied enthusiasm was fun to watch, but even more fun to listen to, as the FWSO and Bairos demonstrated a wholesome togetherness.
— South Florida Classical Review
Throughout the suite, Bairos demonstrated a high level of musical sensitivity leading the orchestra with firm and concise gestures in the fast movements, and allowing for the musicians to fluctuate freely between phrases in more lyrical sections.
— The Post and Courier,Charleston Symphony Orchestra
Bairos worked to distinguish each one, emphasizing Brahms' syncopations, juxtaposed meters, and lush harmonies. He elicited terrific dynamic contrasts from the players that heightened the effect and worked like chewing gum on an airplane to keep the ear canals clear.
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Jacomo Rafael BairosPortuguese-American conductor Jacomo Bairos continues to redefine what a conductor can be in the 21st century. He challenges the preconceptions of orchestral repertoire, blurs the lines of genres, and integrates the orchestra into the broader community in new, holistic, and organic ways. Bairos is the 17th Music Director for the Amarillo Symphony, Co-Founder and Artistic Director for Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble, and performs regularly as a guest conductor with some of the world’s finest orchestras.
Bairos’ performances have been described as “thrilling" (Providence Journal), “inspirational and highly communicative” (Singapore Straits Times), and having a “splendid sense of musicality” (Knoxville Mercury). The New York Times hails Nu Deco Ensemble as “chamber orchestra for the 21st century,” while Billboard called them “a sonically spellbinding experience.”
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Biography
In the 2019-2020 season, Bairos makes debuts with the Seattle Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops, returns to the Symphonies of San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, and Sarasota, as well as releases his first studio album with Nu Deco Ensemble. Bairos also is in residency at the Peabody Institute for performances and lectures this fall, and makes his operatic debut with Britten's Turn of the Screw in collaboration with Illuminarts Miami. In June, Bairos made highly successful debuts with the Boston Pops, returned to the Atlanta Symphony and continued his relationship with the Sewanee Music Festival working with America's premier young musicians.
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Along with composer Sam Hyken, Bairos is Co-Founder and Artistic Director for Nu Deco Ensemble- "Occasionally, you see or hear something that blows your mind. Last night, Nu Deco Ensemble at Saratoga Performing Arts Center was exactly that" (Saratoga Living). Since its inception in 2015, Nu Deco Ensemble has exploded onto Miami's eclectic musical scene by captivating audiences, holistically engaging with its community, and fusing innovative, genre-bending orchestral performances and collaborations with the highest levels of musical artistry. Nu Deco enters its fifth season with the release of their first studio album (whose first single has gained over 60k streams in less than a week) featuring living composers, popular artist re-imaginations, and unique collaborations with Kishi Bashi and Danay Suarez. Additionally, Nu Deco ensemble has joined the prestigious roster of Red Light Management in Los Angeles, renewed partnerships with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, and returns to the Boca Festival of the Arts.
This year marks is Bairos’ seventh season as the Amarillo Symphony’s 17th Music Director. His imaginative and inclusive tenure has fueled tremendous fiscal and artistic growth, fusing classical orchestral traditions with diverse programming and dynamic guest artists from Calssical, Jazz, Middle Eastern, Country, Dance, and Multi-Media worlds. Bairos has overseen the creation of captivating outreach initiatives such as Class Act, SymphonyKids, the Happy-Holiday Pops and established the first ever Composer-in-Residence with young American Chris Rogerson. Bairos has appeared in subscriptions with the Symphonies of Singapore, Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Fort Worth, Alabama, Charleston, Knoxville, and Rhode Island Philharmonic.
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Bairos has also appeared with the Detroit and North Carolina Symphonies, the Louisiana Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and directed the National Symphony Orchestra's acclaimed DeClasssified Series along with multiple Pops programs from 2015-2018. Bairos has made numerous returns to the St. Louis, San Diego, Florida, Jacksonville, Charlotte Symphony Orchestras, and recently curated new music performances in Grand Rapids mentoring emerging composers in collaboration with the American Composers Orchestra's Earshot program. International engagements include Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig and Oaxaca Symphony Orchestras, as well as Orquesta Sinfónica’s do Porto Casa da Música (Portugal).
Bairos’ Classical artist collaborators include renowned musicians Jeremy Denk, Garrick Ohlsson, Jennifer Koh and mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges to name a few. Additionally, Bairos closely collaborates with some of today’s most groundbreaking and dynamic cross-over artists such as: Academy-Award winningcomposer, Bryce Dessner, Grammy-winning artists Wyclef Jean, Jacob Collier, Angelique Kidjo, Gregory Porter, as well as KishiBashi, Seu Jorge, Bilal, Cory Henry, and Jon Batiste. Since 2014, Bairos has worked on numerous projects and collaborations with multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ben Folds.
Bairos’ musical mentors include the esteemed conductor pedagogue, Gustav Meier, and distinguished Maestro Kurt Masur. From 2010-2013, Bairos studied, apprenticed, and mentored with Robert Spano at the Atalanta Symphony and worked closely with Jorma Panula. In 2012, Bairos was awarded the prestigious Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Scholarship by the U.S. Mendelssohn Foundation and Kurt Masur. Bairos is an orchestral conducting alumnus of both the Peabody Institute and Aspen Music Festival.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Bairos is an accomplished and award-winning tubist, having given masterclasses and concerts with major festivals and orchestras around the world. Bairos has toured, recorded, and concertized with the New York Philharmonic as well as with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, and Seattle. He has held principal positions with orchestras in America and Spain, and from 2004-2007 Bairos was Principal Tuba for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Bairos is also a Yoga teacher, practitioner of Vipassana Meditation, and works and mentors with underserved children throughout the South Florida and Panhandle-Texas region. He makes his home in Miami, FL.
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Danay Suarez - “Dejando al Mundo”
Nu Deco Ensemble & Kishi Bashi - “Honeybody”
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Timothy Buzbee - “Raw Emotions: North
American Tuba Concertos”
Sam Hyken - “Farandole”
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Photos
Paul Dukas - “The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Bernstein: "On the Town" - Mvt. I,
"The Great Lover"
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Nu Deco Ensemble - Aretha (Aretha Franklin Suite)
Nu Deco Ensemble - Aaron Copland's Billy The Kid Suite
Videos
Nu Deco Ensemble - Chris Rogerson - Luminosity
(Chamber Version)
Ben Folds Presents: "Can't Let Go, Juno"
by Kishi Bashi
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Ben Folds Presents - “Don't Stop"
by Jon Batiste
Brahms Symphony No. 2. Mvt I,
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