Pedro Castro holds a PhD in Music from the University of Aveiro, a Masters degree in Musical Arts from the FSCH Universidade Nova de Lisboa, bachelors in recorder and baroque oboe from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He teaches at the Escola Superior de Musica de Lisboa and Escola Superior de Musica e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto. He is the principal oboist at the Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música and performs as a freelance with prominent early music ensembles across Europe. He directed and produced the first world recording of "Serenata L'Angelica" by João de Sousa Carvalho in 2016. His doctoral investigation was devoted to the Serenata during the reign of queen Maria I and his research interests include political uses of royal patronage in the field of dramatic music (especially through the study of the plots, allegorical content and the characters portrayed in librettos) as well as the performance practices of 17h an18th century music. He published the article "A Música para a troca das Princesas" (Music for the exchange of the Princesses) in the Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia (2018), devoted to the musical works performed in Portugal and Spain to celebrate the double marriage between the Iberian courts in 1785.