Rafaela Carvalho, oboist
Rafaela Carvalho is a Portuguese oboist based in Berlin, currently studying for her Master’s degree at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. She has worked with the Staatskapelle Berlin and performed at the Lucerne Festival, at the Grafenegg Festival under Jörg Widmann and at the Pierre Boulez Saal, alongside artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Her path has also led her to the Remix Ensemble at Casa da Música in Porto, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Preußisches Kammerorchester. Since 2025 she has been a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin.
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To draw everyone into a unique landscape of sound and imagination. That is what I wish to do with my music. What Mariza says about fado, the most traditional Portuguese song, I feel about all music:
“Fado is universal and the language is not a frontier. You don’t have to understand what I am saying, because fados have the power of crossing that frontier and make you feel emotions.”
Mariza, in Mariza and the Story of Fado
The stage changes, but the wish stays the same. I want to share my music with anyone, from the biggest halls to the smallest rooms. I hope each concert stays with them, or at least fills the time we share with joy.
- 29.11.2026Chamber Music ConcertVenue and time to be announcedTBA
- 20.12.2026Chamber Music Concert · 11:00 & 15:00With Mandy Fredrich, soprano · Darya Varlamova, violin · Tony Rymer, cello · Matthias Samuil, pianoTickets ↗
Selected past concerts
- 22.11.2025Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra – Johanna Malangré, conductorKKL Luzern, Concert Hall · with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Anastasia Kobekina and Helga Karen · Gubaidulina, Jaeger, KopatchinskajaLook back ↗
- 14.02.2025Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Christopher Ainslie, countertenorPierre Boulez Saal, Berlin · Handel, Boyce, Arne, AvisonProgram ↗
- 05.10.2024Concert at the Freizeitforum MarzahnArndt-Bause-Saal, BerlinDetails ↗
- 27.06.2024Chamber music festival “Ouverture” – Hommage à ParisHochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin · Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin (wind quintet)Photos ↗
- 21.01.2024Remix Ensemble Casa da Música – Peter Rundel, conductorCasa da Música, Porto · Eötvös, Fermata · Vasco Mendonça, Four speeches and a technique · Emmanuel Nunes, DuktusDetails ↗
- 20.02.2023Benefit concert for the victims of the earthquake in Türkiye and SyriaPierre Boulez Saal, BerlinDetails ↗
- 16.03.2022Emmanuel Pahud & students of the Barenboim-Said AkademiePierre Boulez Saal, Berlin · Haydn, Barber, HindemithListen ↗
- 12.03.2022Benefit concert for Ukrainian refugeesUniversität der Künste Berlin, Konzertsaal Hardenbergstraße · Klughardt, Wind Quintet op. 79Details ↗