In 1998 Eduardo moved to Germany to begin studies with Prof. Gustavo Nuñez (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra) at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, where he completed his graduate studies in 2002 with maximum marks and at the end of that year he began his post-graduate studies at the Hans Eisler School in Berlin with Prof. Klaus Thunemann.

Eduardo has attended master classes with such artists as Noel de Vos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Matthew Wilkie (Chamber Orch. of Europe), Dag Jensen (Prof. of Bassoon, Hannover Hochshcule for Music), and has also studied with such well known bassoonists as Frank Morelli (Orpheus Chamber Orch.), Stéphane Levesque (Montreal Symphony Orch.), and Patricia Rogers (Metropolitan Opera House, New York). He has performed as soloist with various orchestras, including his own Orquestra do Algarve in both 2004 and 2005.

Eduardo was awarded the UNESCO prize in 1999 for his work in the area of Chamber Music and specifically the work of young composers in North, Central and South America and as a result was invited to the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada for further studies. Amongst the prizes he has been awarded are 1st prize in the Argentine Mozarteum for Chamber Music, the Antorchas-Argentina Foundation Scholarship, and the Scholarship of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn.

From 1994 to 1998 he was a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Entre Ríos-Argentina, from 2000 to 2002 he was an active member of the Orchestra of the International Verbier Festival in Switzerland and he is regularly invited to play with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie in Bremen, the Kammerakademie in Neuss am Rhein and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, with whom he has played in major concerts in the best-known European concert-halls.

Eduardo has worked under highly acclaimed conductors James Levine, Yuri Temirkanov, Zubin Metha, Kent Nagano, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Paavo Jäarvi, Jesús Lopez Cobos and Daniel Harding. Fulfilling his strong interest in chamber music, Mr. Sirtori plays with the Ensamble Kontrastes in the city of Nuremberg and in the Potsdam Kammerakademie directed by Prof. Sergio Azzolini. Since March of 2004 he has been a member of the Orquestra do Algarve directed by Maestro Álvaro Casuto, and Osvaldo Ferreira in Faro, Portugal where he currently resides.  Since 2005, Eduardo has been Professor of Bassoon and Chamber Music at the University of Évora, in Alentejo, Portugal.

Please contact Emily McIntyre of Lyran Music for information on booking Eduardo Sirtori or his upcoming performances and recording projects.

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