In January 2020, Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro will have his solo debut at Warsaw Philharmonic. The piano recital will take place on the 7th of January 2020 and is named "The Seasons in Piano Music", with music by Tchaikovsky, Carrapatoso and Piazzolla-Nisinman, inspired by the last solo album recorded by Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro which has received great praise from national and international critics.

The fifth edition of Festival and Academy VERÃO CLÁSSICO - CLASSICAL SUMMER took place from the 28th of July to the 6th of August 2019, at Lisbon’s Centro Cultural de Belém, and included daily concerts and masterclasses with the participation of international renowned musicians, soloists in the world best orchestras and teachers in the most prestigious institutions. In 2019, 200 young musicians from 29 countries of the 5 continents were selected for the VERÃO CLÁSSICO Academy. Founded in 2015, the Festival and Academy VERÃO CLÁSSICO - CLASSICAL SUMMER has the artistic and pedagogical direction of Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro.

On the 28th November 2019, at Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble presented the concert “CROSSINGS: Classical Music, Folk & Jazz”, dedicated to the crossovers between classical music and other types of music, such as popular music and jazz, including works by Stravinsky, Khatchaturian, Bartók, Glick, Gershwin, Poulenc and the world premiere of Luís Tinoco’s “Aleppo”.

Composer Luís Tinoco has been awarded the DSCH - Shostakovich Ensemble 2019 Prize for Composers. Tinoco (b. 1969, Lisbon) is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the most relevant Portuguese composers of today and his music has been published by the University of York Music Press. The award was be presented at the world premiere of ‘Aleppo’, at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, on the 28th November. 

DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble double album with the first complete recording of Dmitri Shostakovich Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings is receiving several accolades - 5 Diapasons, CLIC and Best Album of 2018 Classique News, Luister 10, Opus D’Or, etc - and great reviews from the international press such as Gramophone, Diapason, Guardian, Luister, Scherzo, das Orchester, etc.