Pedro Castro was born in 1977, in Porto. He graduated from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, under the guidance of Pedro Couto Soares, and from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, in the Netherlands, under the guidance of Sébastien Marq (flute) and Ku Ebbinge (baroque oboe).

He is the first oboe of the Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música and his activity as an instrumentalist also includes several orchestras and early music ensembles in the main European artistic centers, such as Ludovice Ensemble, Al Ayre Español, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Cercle d’Harmonie, Baltazar Neumann Ensemble, Divino Sospiro, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and Forma Antiqva. In October 2010, he directed the modern première of the Serenade L’ Angelica by João de Sousa Carvalho. In 2012, he directed Gluck’s Opera Paride ed Elena, as part of a project by the ESML opera studio.

As a soloist, he performed with Orquestra Capela Real, Divino Sospiro and Orquestra Barroca da Casa da Música, with concertos for oboe and recorder by Vivaldi, Telemann, Marcello and J.S. Bach. On the classical oboe, and with the Arabesque Quartet, he performed the Mozart oboe quartet, icon of the virtuosic repertoire of classicism. He also collaborates with the group Sete Lágrimas, with whom he made several award-winning recordings and tours throughout Europe.

He is the artistic director of the Concerto Campestre group and holds a doctorate from the University of Aveiro, where he carried out research on the tradition of court serenades in Lisbon during the time of Queen Maria I (1777-1800). In 2016, Pedro was the conductor and producer of the first world recording of the serenade L’ Angelica, by Sousa Carvalho, released by Naxos.