Born in 2001, Pedro Silva began his musical career at the age of four in the tradition-steeped wind band Banda de Música de Famalicão, before beginning his musical training on the bassoon at the Centro de Cultura Musical at the age of ten. At the age of 12, he continued to develop his musical skills at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave, initially with his teacher Lurdes Carneiro and later with Sandra Ochoa and Hugo Mendes. He finally completed his bachelor’s degree at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto, where he was taught by Pedro Silva, Raffaele Giannotti and Axel Benoit. Today, this young Portuguese bassoonist, who is currently completing his master’s degree with Guilhaume Santana at the Hochschule für Musik Saar, works with various orchestras and ensembles, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Luxembourg, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, the Orquestra do Norte, the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, the Mannheim Philharmonic and others.
Pedro Silva was a member of the Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa in the 2020/21 season and has played in the Famalicão Youth Orchestra since 2019. In the 2022/23 season, he received a guest contract with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Trier. He is also a passionate chamber musician and regularly collaborates on chamber music projects with various ensembles. In 2019, he won 2nd prize at the national Prémio Jovens Músicos in Portugal with the In time quintet.
