Welcome to Pedro Sousa Silva's Homepage
Here you can find all sorts of information concerning the recorder and early music, my artistic and didactic activities, my projects and the persons and groups I work with. Unfortunately I don't have much time to keep it up to the date, therefore you might find it somewhat overpassed. But I would like it to become a usefull information space to everyone that cares about recorder activities, especially in Portugal, so I'll be very happy to post every information you send me that can find pertinence in this context. Don't hesitate to contact me if you any questions, requests or suggestions to make!
Graduated from Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where he studied with Pedro Couto Soares, Cremilde Rosado Fernandes and Stephen Bull, Pedro Sousa Silva pursued his studies at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano under the guidance of Pedro Memlesdorff. As a recorder student he attended several master-classes with Peter Holtslag, Pedro Bonet, Pedro Memelsdorff, Gabrielle Wahl, Ricardo Kanji, Reine Marie Verhagen, Peter van Heygen and Kees Boeke among many others. Currentely he works on a musicology master dissertation about the fifteenth century manuscript Porto 714 under the guidance of prof. Manuel Pedro Ferreira.
As a concertist, he often performs as a as a soloist or within several chamber music ensembles. He founded the ensembles Via Artis, L’Universo Sommerso and A Imagem da Melancolia. He performed at countless places in Portugal, Netherlands, Austria, Spain and Italy.
As a teacher he’s often invited to give recorder and chamber music master-classes as well as conferences and seminars on subjects related to the performing practice of the music previous to 1750.
Since 1992 he devotes part of his time to teaching, currently he teaches the recorder and chamber music at the Early Music Department from the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto.