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“The orchestra is very popular with local audiences and it's great to be part of this
extended family and community. I believe music is for everyone. It's not selective, it's not
complicated. In a way, there is a way of communicating more directly with people than
words”, he declared, in a video of an institutional advertisement about the new position.

Royal Northern Symphony Director Thorben Dittes said that "Dinis' special connection to
the orchestra on stage has been unmistakable since the first time RNS performed with
him."

“He is clearly an exceptional talent and we are very excited about the enormous artistic
potential that Dinis, as our new Principal Conductor, will bring to the Northeast”, he
added.

Dinis Sousa had been appointed in 2018 assistant conductor of the Monteverdi Choir
and Orchestras, where he collaborated closely with British conductor John Eliot
Gardiner.

As part of his work with the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchester Révolutionnaire
et Romantique, and with Gardiner, its founder, Dinis Sousa directed, among others, the
London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, and performed at the BBC
Proms, in front of Coro Monteverdi, to offer Berlioz's choral symphony “Rómeo et
Juliette”.

Before that, he studied Orchestra Direction at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
in London, and founded the Orquestra XXI, a ensemble that brings together Portuguese
musicians who live abroad, a project for which he was recognized with the title of Knight
of the Order of Infante D. Henrique in Portugal.

Royal Northern Symphony Photography

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