Pedro Caldeira Cabral
Pedro Caldeira Cabral (1950 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a musician who specializes in Mediaeval, Renaissance, Baroque and Iberian music. Education. As a child, he studied the Portuguese and classical guitars and the recorder. Later he studied music theory, counterpoint and harmony with Professor Artur Santos of the National Music Conservatory of Lisbon. In 1970 he began studying the lute, the viols and other early music string and wind instruments. Career. He founded and directed the early music groups 'La Batalla' and 'Concerto Atlântico', specialized in the performance of Medieval and Renaissance music on period instruments. As a  composer, Pedro has developed a very individual style founded on the solo guitar tradition, incorporating original techniques and elements gathered from his study of the traditional instruments of the art and popular forms within the Mediterranean musical heritage. As a performer he has expanded the solo repertoire of the Portuguese guitar with transcriptions of works by J.S.Bach, S.L.Weiss, D.Scarlatti, Seixas, S.de Murcia, R.de Visée and many others, as well as given first performances of original pieces by other contemporary composers. He has researched in the field of traditional music (musical organology) and collaborated with Dr. Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira on  the second and third editions of the book “Portuguese Traditional Musical Instruments”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 1982 and 2000. In the same area he made the complete inventory and organological classification of Michel Giacometti’s collection in the Music Museum of Cascais. He composed original music for the theater, cinema, TV series and ballet and since 1969, toured intensively as a Portuguese guitar player in international music festivals in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He was responsible for the artistic direction of the International Portuguese Guitar Festival at World Expo 98, held in Lisbon, and performed the work "Macau Rhapsody