Bruno Pedroso was born in 1969. He began his music studies in 1987 and, in 1990, he studied with jazz drummer Allan Dawson, a renowned pedagogue and professor for eighteen years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He also studied with living jazz legends such as Clark Terry, Sir Roland Hanna, Rufus Reid, and Bill Pierce.
He also studied with live jazz legends such as Clark Terry, Sir Roland Hanna, Rufus Reid, Bill Pierce and Kenny Washington.
From 1995, he devoted himself almost exclusively to jazz, joining the faculty of the Escola de Jazz do Hot Clube de Portugal. He was also a member of the Colectivo Português de Percussão. In 1997, he studied with Antonio Sanchez and Billy Hart. The following year, he moved to New York, where he attended the Drummers Collective and also had private lessons with some of the most important drummers in the jazz scene, including Jordi Rossi, Jim Chapin, Carl Allen, Leon Parker, Ralph Peterson Jr., Adam Nussbaum, Steve Berrios, Kim Plainfield, and Bobby Sanabria.
Over the past ten years, in addition to continuing his teaching career at various schools, he has maintained an intense activity as a freelancer, performing with a wide range of Portuguese jazz musicians. He is also regularly invited to join groups with prestigious foreign musicians, including: Julian Argüelles, Chris Cheek, Ken Filiano, Peter Bernstein, Rich Perry, Miguel Zenón, Abe Rábade, Nicholas Payton, Reginald Veal, Aaron Goldberg, Phil Markowitz, Ricky Ford, Chris Kase, Eli Degibri, Avishai Cohen, Antonio Faraò, Peter Epstein, Bob Sands, François Théberge, Rick Margitza, John Ellis, Dave O’Higgins, Richard Galliano, Gregory Tardy, Perico Sambeat, Jesús Santandreu, Ivan Paduart, Herb Geller, Sheila Jordan, Jesse Davis, Donald Harrison, and Ben Monder, among many others.
He performs annually at the main jazz festivals in Portugal and abroad.