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At-A-Glance Professional Artistic Fun FactsMusic Director of the Amarillo Symphony
Co-Founder and Artistic Director for Miami-based Nu Deco Ensemble
Curated and Directed the National Symphony Orchestra’s DeClassified Series, In Your Neighborhood Initiative, and conducted numerous Pops programs
Regularly works with National Sym, San Fran, Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Sarasota
Studied under eminent teachers Gustav Meier, Robert Spano and Kurt Masur, and graduated from the Peabody Institute, Aspen Music Festival, and The Juilliard School
Bairos is breaking down musical and collaborative barriers, working with both acclaimed classical artist such as Jeremy Denk and Garrick Ohlsson, as well as non-classical artists like Macy Gray, Jon Batiste, Kishi Bashi, Gregory Porter, tUnE-yArDs and Ben Folds.
Profoundly committed to new music and emerging composers, he has commissioned and premiered over 40 new works from composers and artists such as Mason Bates, Kishi Bashi, Adam Schoenberg, Magda Giannouku, Chris Rogerson, Andy Akiho, and many more.
Bairos has crafted interactive educational initiatives and concerts such as Amarillo’s Class Act and Symphony Kids, Nu Deco Ensemble’s Imagine Series, collaborated with Carnegie Hall’s Link-Up programs and created the Amarillo Symphony’s Young Composers initiative with West Texas A&M Music Department.
Bairos 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
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.
Jacomo is both a teacher and practitioner of Vinyasa Yoga and Vipassana Meditation
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Media Quotes
— 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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BiographyPortuguese-American conductor Jacomo Bairos continues to redefine what a conductor can be and do in the 21st Century, challenging the preconceptions of orchestral repertoire, blurring the lines of genre, and integrating the orchestra into the broader community in holistic and organic new 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 hailed Nu Deco Ensemble as “chamber orchestra for the 21st century,” while Billboard called them “a sonically spellbinding experience.”
In the 2018-2019 season, Bairos appears with the San Francisco Symphony, makes subscription debuts with the Boston Pops, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and conducts the Wichita and Winston-Salem Symphony’s. Bairos also continues his longstanding relationship with the Atlanta and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, where he conducts and curates new music performances and mentors emerging composers in collaboration with the American Composers Orchestra’s Earshot program. His relationship with the National Symphony Orchestra continued through 2018, directing their critically-acclaimed DeClassified Series, the In Your Neighborhood Initiative, and multiple Pops programs.
Bairos has appeared with the Detroit, Houston, North Carolina, Knoxville, and Alabama Symphony Orchestras, the Louisiana and Rhode Island Philharmonic’s and the Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra. In addition, he has made numerous returns to the Atlanta, St. Louis, San Diego, Florida, Sarasota, Jacksonville, Charlotte and Charleston Symphony Orchestras. International engagements include the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore, Leipzig and Oaxaca Symphony Orchestra’s, as well as the Orquesta Sinfónica’s do Porto Casa da Música (Poturgal), de Provincial de Santa Fe (Argentina), and de la Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico).
The diverse range of Bairos’ artist collaborators include famed pianists Jeremy Denk, Garrick Ohlsson, Conrad Tao, Anne-Marie McDermott and Mezzo-Soprano J’Nai Bridges to name a few. Bairos closely collaborates with some of today’s most groundbreaking artists such as, Academy Award-winning composer/guitarist Bryce Dessner, Grammy winning artists’ Jacob Collier, Angeliqu Kidjo, Gregor Porter, as well as Kishi Bashi, Danay Suarez, Seu Jorge, Bilal, Aaron Deihl, Cory Henry, and Jon Batiste. Since 2014, Bairos has worked on numerous projects and collaborations with multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ben Folds.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Bairos is an accomplished and award-winning tubist, having given master classes and concerts with major festivals and orchestras around the world. Bairos has performed, toured, and recorded 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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Videos
Nu Deco Ensemble - Chris Rogerson - Luminosity
(Chamber Version)
Nu Deco Ensemble - Ensemble & Decadance Theatre: 4 -
The Vivaldi Project
Nu Deco Ensemble - Paul Dooley - Velocity Festivals
Nu Deco Ensemble - Ensemble Educational Outreach
Bernstein: "On the Town" - Mvt. III, "Times Square, 1944"
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Nu Deco Ensemble - Ensemble & Jacob Collier -
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