Thierry Fradinho Redondo was born on 17 March 1994 in Paris. He began to study music at the age of 9 in the Banda Filarmónica Simão da Veiga at the Casa do Povo de Lavre under the teachers Rui Ferreira and Fernando Palacino. At 14, he studied with Reinaldo Guerreiro at the Escola Profissional Metropolitana. He completed his degree at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (ANSO), also under Reinaldo Guerreiro, and at 18 won second prize in the 2012 “Terras de La Sallete” International Competition in the senior category.

After finishing his undergraduate degree, he took a master’s in Performance under Thomas Leyendecker at the Hochschle für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig in Germany. In 2019, he won an audition to join the Staatskapelle Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) under the conductor Daniel Berenboim and musical direction of Jürgen Oswald and Filipe Alves. He is currently bass trombonist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra after successfully auditioning in 2022.