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Emmanuel Sowicz debut with the Chilean National Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday 08 October 2025
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Emmanuel Sowicz with conductor Andrew Gourlay and the Chilean National Symphony Orchestra. Santiago, 26 September 2025. Credit: Jacqueline Uribe

Emmanuel Sowicz, a second-year DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Music, made his debut with the Chilean National Symphony Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the country, conducted by Andrew Gourlay (a regular guest at the BBC Proms).

With performances on 26 and 27 September 2025, Sowicz became the first guitarist to appear in the orchestra's newly opened concert hall in Santiago during its inaugural season. A review in Las Últimas Noticias (Chile) described his playing as possessing a 'luminous assurance that swept the Symphony Hall by storm'.

Winner of the London International Guitar Competition and an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), Emmanuel Sowicz is under the supervision of Professor Laura Tunbridge and Dr Oliver Chandler. His doctoral research, supported by the Allen Senior Music Scholarship at St Catherine's College, explores the foundational role of musical arrangements in the classical guitar tradition.

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