Born in 1974, Pedro Sousa Silva studied the recorder with Pedro Couto Soares at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (1992-1996) and Pedro Memesldorff at Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano (1996-2000). After musicology studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1999-2000), where he was tutored by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, he obtained in 2010 the title of Doctor in Music at Universidade de Aveiro, with a thesis that discusses the interaction between practice and theory in the performance of renaissance polyphony. He has an intensive artistic career in the field of renaissance and baroque performance, having performed around 200 times, both as a recorder player and musical director, in countless venues and early music festivals in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Brazil. He has collaborated with world renowned early-music musicians such as Amandine Beyer, Enrico Onofri, Riccardo Minasi, Jill Feldman or Laurence Cummings. As a musical director and researcher, Pedro has been focused primarily on the rescue and promotion of Portuguese musical heritage from the 16th and 17th centuries. With his ensembles A Imagem da Melancolia and Arte Minima, Pedro was responsible for the first modern performance or recording of works by Pedro de Cristo, Estevão Lopes Morago, Manuel Rodrigues Coelho, Pedro da Esperança, Pedro de Araújo, Miguel da Fonseca, André Moutinho, André Lopes, António Carreira, as well as works by many anonymous composers.