Portuguese conductor Miguel Sepúlveda won the Grand Prix of the International Conducting Competition Rotterdam in June 2025. Prior to this, he reached the semi-finals of the Malko Competition in April 2024, where he conducted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
In September 2024, the Dresden Philharmonic appointed him as its first ever Sir Donald Runnicles Fellow. He supports the chief conductor in his projects and also conducts his own concerts. In addition to his work in Dresden, he made his debut with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck and the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa in the 2024/25 season and returned to the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and the Orquestra Metropolitana.
Miguel Sepúlveda won Portugal’s Prémio Jovens Músicos in 2022. The following year, he conducted Puccini's "Suor Angelica" at Operafest Lisboa and made his debut with Gulbenkian Orchestra – the latter resulting in an immediate reinvitation.
In the United Kingdom he has conducted the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata, in addition to assisting Domingo Hindoyan and Vasily Petrenko at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Born in Lisbon in 1998, Miguel Sepúlveda studied under Jean Marc Burfin and finished his Masters at the Royal Northern College of Music with Mark Heron and Clark Rundell.