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unusual facts about Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation


The Violins of Saint-Jacques

The opera was commissioned in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.


Calouste Gulbenkian

It was from this "Participations and Explorations Corporation" which came the name Partex (now called the "Partex Oil and Gas (Holdings) Corporation" and which is now a subsidiary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation headquartered in Lisbon).

Helena Sá e Costa

She was among the virtuoso performers at famous festivals, such as at Strasbourg, Wiesbaden, Haarlem, Prades, Gulbenkian, Majorca, Costa del Sol, Sintra, Espinho, Costa Verde, etc.

José Pedro Gomes

He received formation at the Théâtre du Soleil (in 1970), at the Teatro da Cornucópia, with professors of the Bristol Old Vic School (in 1981) and, in 1991, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with Polina Klimovitskaia.

Keith Milow

Awards included the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation award (1976), the Arts Council of Great Britain major award (1979), and the Edward Albee Foundation award (1983).

Mário Vieira de Carvalho

Research grants from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1980-1984), DAAD, Germany (1992), and Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (1995).

National Union of School Students

With a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the union published the magazine Blot which featured the early work of the cartoonist Steve Bell.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

In 1992 Calouste Gulbenkian's Grand Prize for Literature for Children by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the full set of her work.


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Maria de Lourdes Martins

She introduced the Orff-Schulwerk system from the Salzburg Mozarteum in Portugal, and won the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Composition Award two times.