Pedro Vaz, cello

Born in Portugal, Pedro Vaz began his cello studies at the age of thirteen at Escola Profissional de Artes da Beira Interior with Miguel Rocha. During this time he also had tuition with Catherine Strynckx, Philippe Muller, Paulo Gaio Lima, Jeroen den Herder, Márcio Carneiro and Evelien Prakké. Pedro has participated in numerous youth orchestras in Portugal, working with conductors such as Roberto Perez, Oswaldo Ferreira, Luis Cipriano and Chistopher Bochmann.

Having a special interest in baroque music, he has performed and worked with specialists in this field, namely Rainer Zipperling, António Oliveira e Silva, Álvaro Pinto, Enrico Onoffri, Richard Gwilt and Angel San Pedro.   In 2006, Pedro commenced studies with Jan-Ype Nota and Michel Strauss at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen, The Netherlands.

10 questions

Who are your favourite 3 composers?

Vivaldi, Boccherini, Debussy 

Are you a cat or a dog person?

Cat 

Who is your favourite film character (and name of the film)?

Franciso Reiguera in ‘Dom Quixote’ 

What 3 foods can you not live without?

Chocolate, fruit, honey 

When you were 6, what did you want to be when you grew up?

An historian 

If you could wake up on holidays tomorrow anywhere in the world, where would it be?

The skeleton coast 

What are you non musicals hobbies/interests?

Rubik’s cube, writing, wasting time with Italians 

Who is your favourite author?

Séneca (Lucius Annaeus) 

What are you annoyed by?

Annoying people (like me) 

Who are you inspired by?

God