José Pedro Pereira was born in 1998. He is trumpet B soloist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He initiated his piano and trumpet studies at the Conservatório de Música de Felgueiras, later continuing his training at the Academia José Atalaya in Fafe. In 2010, he enrolled at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave where he studied under Paulo Silva and graduated with top marks. In 2016, he was admitted into the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste – Zurich, where he studied under Frits Damrow and Laurent Tinguely and also, for Baroque trumpet, under Simon Lilly.

During his training, he took countless advanced courses with Pierre Dutot, Frits Damrow, Mark David, Pasi Pirinen, Philippe Litzler, Pacho Flores, Konradin Groth, Reinhold Friedrich, Jeroen Berwaerts, Philip Smith and Sergei Nakariakov, among others.

He has won awards in Portuguese and international competitions, including the Eric Aubier International Trumpet Competition (France), Internationaler Bodensee Musikwettbewerb (Germany), “Terras de La Salette” Wind Instruments International Competition, Póvoa de Varzim Trumpet Competition, Rubén Simeó International Trumpet Competition and the Albertino Lucas Luso-Galician Competition. In 2018, he won 1st Prize (advanced level) at the 32nd Young Musicians Awards.

He was a student musician at the Opernaus Zürich / Philharmonia Zürich (2019–2022), where he worked with innumerable internationally renowned conductors and singers. In the role of soloist, he has played for the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestre de l‘Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa.