Pedro Pires
Tenor
A prized student of Costa Campos, born in Lisbon, Pedro Pires was soon seduced by the stage arts, and his youth was invested in studying music, choral singing, piano, acting (theatrical drama), characterisation and oral, corporal and dramatic expression, an education which culminated at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais (Cascais Professional School of Theatre) under Carlos Avilez.He embarks upon the world of lyrical music in 2005, by starting his studies at the Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa (Lisbon National Conservatory of Music); and also by enrolling, in the same year, in “Primo Canto Associação Cultural” (Primo Canto Cultural Association), where he would regularly sing in public and where, under the tutelage of Costa Campos, he discovers the vocal, musical and scenic aesthetics that would mark his artistic life. It is during this period that he presents his first solo recital at the Music Museum of Lisbon, whereas his professional experience would prove to be as a chorus member in Offenbach's Monsieur Choufleuri Restera Chez Lui in 2008.In 2009 and 2010 he participates in various musical celebrations in Lisbon and, in a show entitled “Enchanted Opera Evening”, in Bragança. Also noteworthy is his participation in the event “Evoking the Nelson Mandela Internation Day”, organised in September 2010. In 2015 the artistic project “Il Primo Canto” is born, under which he participates in various flash-mobs, and 2016 finds him paying hommage to Federico Garcia Lorca, alongside Costa Campos and Tito Lívio in a music and poetry presentation entitled “Verde que te quero verde”.From November 2010 until November 2022 he has sung weekly at the Vila Galé Ópera Hotel, also taking part in its initiatives “Opera Delicacies” and, in 2014/15, “Sunsets”. 2011 saw him also at the Hotel Avenida Palace in a musical season overseen by Costa Campos; from the various musical projects that would follow, he singles out the recitals in November 2013 at the PalácioNacional da Ajuda (Ajuda National Palace) and June 2014 at the Palácio Foz(Foz Palace), where he embraces the most heroic characteristics of his vocality with arias from such operas as Un Ballo in Maschera, Lohengrin and Tosca.It is also in 2014 that he undertakes a class with Fiorenza Cossotto. August 2015 finds him a chorus member in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; November 2016 a chorus member for Carmen; and January 2016 - proudly - a chorus member for the Chorus of the Nacional São Carlos Opera House, where, amongst a number of concerts, his participations include Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Nabucco (2016), as well as the entire 2017 season: Donizetti's Anna Bolena (Staging: Graham Vick. Lead soprano: Elena Mosuc), Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, Bernstein's “Candide” (concert version) and Britten's Peter Grimes.Pedro performed weekly at the Hotel Vila Galé Ópera, from November 2010 to November 2022, together with his colleagues.
