Pedro Almeida

I’m Pedro Massano Almeida and I’m 23 years old. From seven to fifteen years I studied Classical Music (drums and percussion) at the Academia de Música de Benavente (PT). From fifteen to seventeen I had private drum lessons with Goncalo Santuns. I studied Artistic Production (Ceramics) at the Artistic School António Arroio and participated in some group exhibitions. In 2015 I started studies in Drums at Hot Clube Portugal, Luiz Villas-Boas Jazz School. I represented the school in combo jazz formats, in the CoMbO cOmBo project by Maria Ceia and with the Hot Club Student Jazz Big Band. Still studying at Hot Clube I started my degree in Musicology at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA-FCSH). During the degree, I did a curricular internship in Soundtrack Composition at CESEM. In 2019 I completed the 4 years of training at Hot Clube and in 2021 I finished my degree at NOVA-FCSH. I was part of the international project: Itinerant Musical Composition Classes (IMCC) which has already had two artistic residencies in Bourges (FR) and Paris (FR). I took classes with drummers like Bruno Pedroso, Joel Silva, Pedro Viana, Luís Candeias, Pedro Felgar, João Monteiro and Gonçalo Santuns. Beyond these ones I had the pleasure of studying with musicians such as Bruno Pernadas, Gonçalo Marques, Bernardo Moreira, Luís Cunha, César Cardoso, Joana Machado and Daniel Bernardes. I also participated in several masterclasses, underlining the one with the American saxophonist Joe Lovano. I’m a founding musician of the project “Ossos D’Ouvido”, with which I made concerts on several stages since 2014. Currently I’m studying at the Master degree of Musical Arts at NOVA-FCSH and, in addition to Ossos D’Ouvido, I am the drummer/percussionist of the Big Band of Jazz, Big Dave’s Band, the sextet Zazu Lab and the musical project of the singer/author, Rita Onofre.