Pedro Freire was born in Lisbon. At the age of eleven, he enrolled at the Conservatório Regional de Setúbal where he studied under Professors José Augusto Carneiro and Vítor Pereira. From 2010 to 2013, he continued to study the horn under Professor Filipe Coelho at the Escola Profissional de Música da Metropolitana. In 2013, he was accepted into Jeroen Berwaerts’s class at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in Germany where he graduated from the bachelor’s and master’s courses in 2022 with distinction. During this period, he received grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Deutschland Stipendium and Gundlach Musikpreis.

During his studies in Hanover, he was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the Lucerne Festival Academy and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival orchestras, among others. Between 2017 and 2018, he was a student at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, where he had the opportunity to work with major musicians and conductors. From 2019 to 2022, he worked in Hamburg as first horn of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester under conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Klaus Mäkelä, Herbert Blomstedt and Andris Nelsons, among others. In 2023, he was hired as first horn by the Orchester Bonn in Germany. In the same year, he won the audition for the position of Soloist A co-principal at the Gulbenkian Orchestra.