As a conductor and artistic director, Borges-Cunha has contributed to the renewal of orchestral repertoire. His programs integrate historical repertoire with diverse aesthetic trends of current music, including commissions and premieres of works, and production of operas and ballets. He was the artistic director and principal conductor of the São Pedro Theater Chamber Orchestra (Porto Alegre) from 2004 to 2017 and the Sesi/Fundarte Orchestra from 1996 to 2013. He was also the artistic director of ENCOMPOR Latin American Composers Meeting, Festival de Música Montenegro, and musical programming of the XIV Meeting of the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Programs in Music (ANPPOM). In addition, he acts as the conductor and Pedagogical Director of the Recanto Maestro Youth Orchestra and also as a guest conductor in several orchestras.
LONG TERM ENGAGEMENTS
Orquestra de Câmara Theatro São Pedro, Porto Alegre
Principal Guest Conductor, 1997-2003
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, 2004-2017
Sesi/Fundarte Orchestra
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, 1996-2013
SELECTED PROJECTS AS ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR
Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre
Guest Conductor. Works by Armando Albuquerque, John Cage, Antônio Borges-Cunha. May, 2018O Quatrilho. Opera in two acts by Vagner Cunha
Premiere and turs 2018 and 2019
Guest Conductor / Camerata Ontoarte
Orquestra Filarmônica de UFPR
Guest Conductor: Works by Harry Crown, Antônio Borges-Cunha,
August. 2017
Orquestra Sinfônica da Unicamp
Guest Conductor. Works by ABorges-Cunha, Maurício de Bonis e Beethoven
(Symphony nº 4). 2015
Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre
Guest Conductor: Works by Lutoslawsky, Ligeti and Shostakovich. 2013
Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre
Guest Conductor. Mozart, Haydn e Shostakovich (Sinfonia nº 5). 2010.
Orquestra de Câmara Theatro São Pedro
Mozart: Opera Così faun Tutte. 2012
Pierre Boulez, Alfred Schnittke, Celso Loureiro Chaves
Arvo Pärt, Fratres and Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
Mahavidyas, ballet in two acts by Vagner Cunha
Metaphisica Choir Symphony
Radamés Ganttalli: Concerts for saxophone, mandolin, accordion and guitar
Bach: Brandenburg Concerts, complete cycle
Orquestra Sesi/Fundarte
Beethoven: Concerts for Piano, complete cycle
Cristina Ortiz, soloist