Pedro H. da Silva

Dr. Pedro da Silva is a co-founder of Light & Sound Film Scoring along with pianist and composer Lucía Caruso. Collectively, the two have recorded for many films including: two scores for Oscar-winning director Michel Gondry ("Be Kind Rewind," "Interior Design" from the "Tokyo" triptych), as well as recording with acclaimed film composer Jean-Michel Bernard ("The Science of Sleep," "Human Nature"). Together they have scored nine films, including Richard Témtchine's "How to Seduce Difficult Women," and two new scores for silent masterpieces by Georges Méliès for full orchestra and choir. Da Silva also composed for the prize-winning documentary "Tijuana nada más..." (2009) by Yolanda Pividal and Carmen Vidal, the winner of a student Oscar. Caruso and da Silva are the founders and directors of the Manhattan Camerata, an innovative chamber orchestra that records and performs many of their film scores, along with their other compositions and arrangements. The ensemble most recently won Best Instrumental Performance at the prestigious 2017 International Portuguese Music Awards. At Carnegie Hall, da Silva has had three performances to date in both the Isaac Stern Auditorium and Weill Hall: as a soloist, as part of an ensemble, and as a composer. He has collaborated with members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic - and has recorded his orchestral and chamber works at some of the world's finest studios: Abbey Road Studio 1 with the London Metropolitan Orchestra produced by Grammy-winning Stephen McLaughlin, British Grove Studios, New York University's Dolan Studios, and Legacy Studios in New York. Da Silva is also a professor and lecturer in various fields of music, arts, and sciences. He is a member of the New York University faculty in composition, classical guitar, mandolin, banjo, and sitar, with sold-out courses and masterclasses at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC). He completed a bachelor's degree in classical guitar studying with Oren Fader, and holds a master's degree and a doctorate in composition studying with Nils Vigeland and Richard Danielpour at the Manhattan School of Music.