Pedro Carneiro is one of the very few percussion players to have made an international career as a soloist, and has established himself as one of the world's foremost solo percussionists, performing regularly throughout Europe, the Far East and the USA.

Carneiro has performed the world première of over 70 works by leading composers worldwide and appears regularly with a wide range of acclaimed musicians such as the harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka; cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras; pianists Valentina Lisitsa, Michael Houston and Artur Pizarro; the Chilingirian, Shanghai, New Zealand and Arditti string quartets; composers Steve Reich, James Dillon, Emmanuel Nunes, Alejandro Viñao and Django Bates.

Carneiro is a frequent guest soloist with numerous orchestras: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Régional de Basse-Normandie, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Gävle Symfoniorkester and Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, to name but a few, working with conductors such as Petri Sakari, John Neschling, Ronald Zollman, Kaspar de Roo, Jurjen Hempel, Olari Elts, Andrew Parrott, Juanjo Mena, António Saiote, José Ramón Encinar, John Storgårds, Hamish McKeich, Max Rabinovitsj, Sarah Ioannides, Joseph Swensen, Gilbert Varga, Dominique Debart and Marc Taddei amongst others.

Carneiro has won several international prizes and awards, as well as a distinction from the President of the Portuguese Republic on the 30th anniversary, in April 2004, of the Carnation Revolution of 25th April 1974. He performs regularly in festivals and venues such as the BBC Proms, Rhythm Sticks Festival, Queen Elisabeth Hall and Purcell Room in London, Macau International Music Festival, Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Capital Theatre in Beijing, La Biennale di Venezia, Folles Journées, Schumannfest, Festival Classique au Vert, Festival d'Ile de France, IRCAM, Sonic Arts Research Centre/Belfast, amongst others.

In 2003 the British label Deux-Elles launched the solo CD "Crazy Mallets - Portuguese Music for Marimba". 2004 marked the beginning of Carneiro's ongoing collaboration with the French label Zig-Zag Territoires, who released a CD/DVD of the solo works of Iannis Xenakis in October, receiving astonishing reviews worldwide. Pedro Carneiro's new recording with the label, a solo marimba disc, is expected to be released in Autumn 2006 - at that very same time period two other recordings will be released: "Improbable Transgressions" (a solo marimba and electronics disc on Sirr-Ecords) and John Psathas' "View from Olympus" (for piano, percussion and orchestra, to be released on Rattle Records) featuring Carneiro, pianist Michael Houston and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

As a guest teacher, Pedro has given masterclasses, seminars and lectures in many prestigious conservatoires, universities and music courses, such as the Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity College of Music in London, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Tokyo College of Music, São Paulo State University in Brazil, Instrumenta Verano in Mexico and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, to name but a few. He is the visiting professor of solo percussion studies at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon.

His official website is available at www.pedrocarneiro.com.