Pedro Macedo Camacho is a Portuguese composer of classical music as well as film and video game scores. He is best known for his scores to Star Citizen and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.
Biography Camacho was born in Funchal, a city in Madeira, and started learning composition with Argentinean composer Roberto Pérez in his home city's Conservatoire and Arts School.
After three years, Camacho moved to Lisbon, where he continued his studies in the National Conservatoire for another four years with composer and teacher Eurico Carrapatoso. As a pianist, Camacho started with teacher and musicologist, Robert Andres, and then with the Portuguese teacher, Melina Rebelo.
Pedro continued to learn with Carrapatoso until 2006 and, after his long classical training on composition and orchestration, Pedro was taught film scoring in Berklee College of Music.
Camacho claims that composing has been an important part of his life since he was ten years old, when he started composing short musical pieces using the vintage tracker program OctaMED on an Amiga 500.
Camacho's career in concert music began in 2011, when he was commissioned to write the Requiem to Inês de Castro by which premiered in March 2012. In this concert Camacho's composition teacher, Eurico Carrapatoso, also adapted one of his works to serve as opening to the Requiem.
Works
Video games +YearTitleDeveloper2007FuryAuran, CodemastersCrime CityGames2GazeAudiosurf Invisible HandlebarColor TrailReal Time SolutionsDarwin the MonkeyRocksolid GamesDays of Sail immersionFXBonnie and ClydeMediaramas2008A Vampyre StoryAutumn Moon EntertainmentSacred 2: Fallen AngelAscaronZeno ClashAce Team2009Fairytale FightsPlaylogic Game FactoryGhost Pirates of Vooju IslandAutumn Moon Entertainment2010GooseGogsCrimson Cow2011Afterfall: InSanityNicolas Entertainment Group2018Wolfenstein II: The New ColossusMachineGames2020World of Warcraft: ShadowlandsBlizzard Entertainment 2021 Chorus Fishlabs 2024 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 TreyarchTBAStar Citizen Cloud Imperium Games
Other projects +YearTitleNotes2006Stilt WalkersFilm2010Dom Duardos Theater3DMark11 Software2012Requiem to Inês de Castro, Op. 1Concert music2013Caixa Geral de Depósitos "Turn Around"CommercialSonae's MaxmatCommercial2019Te DeumConcert Music2020Gatorade ChinaCommercial2021From the DarkConcert Music
Awards and nominations Year Award Nominated work Result 2008 Independent Games Festival Excellence in Audio Award Audiosurf 2010 Dutch Games Awards Best Audio Design Fairytale Fights 2015 Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards Star Citizen 2017Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity AMCV Doctors 2018D.I.C.E. AwardsWolfenstein II: The New Colossus 202213th Hollywood Music in Media Awards Best Score - Video GameCHORUS 202213th Hollywood Music in Media Awards Best Song - Video GameCHORUS Main Theme featuring Úyanga Bold
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