Press kit & biography
Composer, music producer and GRAMMY®-nominated recording & mixing engineer based in Dublin, Ireland. Credited as Eduardo Prado on some releases and productions. Updated October 2026.
Edu Prado is a Brazilian–Italian composer, producer and GRAMMY®-nominated recording and mixing engineer based in Dublin. He mixed Irish National Opera's GRAMMY-nominated Trade / Mary Motorhead, has recorded and mixed for INO since 2020, scores for film, TV and media, and builds instruments as founder of Edu Prado Sounds.
Edu Prado is a Brazilian–Italian composer, music producer and recording and mixing engineer based in Dublin, Ireland. He mixed Irish National Opera's recording of Emma O'Halloran's Trade / Mary Motorhead (Signum Records), nominated for Best Opera Recording at the 2026 GRAMMY® Awards, and has been INO's recording and mix engineer since 2020, including Gerald Barry's Gramophone-nominated Alice's Adventures Under Ground. He composes for film, TV and media, produces artists such as Inni-K (RTÉ Folk Awards nominee) and Lowli, and designs sound for immersive and live projects, from VR opera to Ireland's pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka. He founded Edu Prado Sounds, an official Native Instruments NKS partner making boutique Kontakt instruments.
Edu Prado is a composer, music producer and GRAMMY®-nominated recording and mixing engineer. Born in Curitiba, Brazil, and of Brazilian–Italian heritage, he has been based in Dublin, Ireland, since 2017, when he moved to study for an MSc in Scoring for Film & Visual Media (First Class Honours). He also holds a degree in music production and composition from UFPR, where he received the Best Student Award, and a first-class degree in industrial mechatronics from UTFPR.
Since 2020 he has been the recording and mix engineer for Irish National Opera. His mix of Emma O'Halloran's Trade / Mary Motorhead (INO / Signum Records) was nominated for Best Opera Recording at the 2026 GRAMMY® Awards, and his recording of Gerald Barry's Alice's Adventures Under Ground was a Gramophone Awards 2022 nominee. He produced Inni-K's RTÉ Folk Awards-nominated work and the music of Lowli, and records orchestral and contemporary music with ensembles including Crash Ensemble, Ergodos and Vladimir Jablokov's orchestral shows.
As a composer he writes for film, TV and media — including additional music for Viaplay series — and recorded with the Veus children's choir in Barcelona for Neople's Dungeon & Fighter Online (produced by LightJar). He led audio and later strategy at the immersive studio Nüwa (VR opera, EU-funded XR projects), ran sound for Ireland's pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, and created The Harrowphone, an immersive installation built from farm harrow discs (FuddleFest; Irish Design Week 2023). He is currently sound supervisor on RTÉ's The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock-In (Riverside TV).
In 2020 he founded Edu Prado Sounds, an official Native Instruments NKS partner whose Kontakt instruments — including a Sound On Sound five-star Extended Electric Guitar — are used by composers worldwide.
| Year | Project | Role | With |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Trade / Mary Motorhead (GRAMMY® nominee) | Mixing engineer, post-production | Emma O'Halloran · Irish National Opera · Signum Records |
| 2021 | Alice's Adventures Under Ground (Gramophone nominee) | Recording & mix engineer | Gerald Barry · INO · Irish Chamber Orchestra · André de Ridder · Signum |
| 2020– | Irish National Opera productions | Recording & mix engineer | incl. 20 Shots of Opera, Strauss' Elektra (Irish Times Theatre Awards nominee) |
| 2026 | Garden of Deity — Dungeon & Fighter Online | Choir recording | Veus children's choir, Barcelona · Neople · LightJar |
| 2026 | The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock-In, S4 | Sound supervisor | Riverside TV · RTÉ |
| 2025 | Expo 2025 Osaka — Irish Pavilion | Sound engineer, audio & AV | Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland |
| 2021–25 | Professionals, Red Election, The Diplomat | Additional music composition | Viaplay series |
| 2022 | Inni-K | Producer, recording & mix engineer | RTÉ Folk Awards nominee |
| — | Lowli — Window in the Woods, Worlds Above Us | Producer, mix | |
| 2023 | The Harrowphone | Creator — immersive audio installation | FuddleFest (Wexford) · Irish Design Week |
| 2021–25 | Nüwa — VR opera, Isolde platform, EU XR projects | Head of Audio → Strategy Director | |
| 2020– | Edu Prado Sounds | Founder · instrument designer | Native Instruments NKS partner · collaborations with Jan Pfitzer |
Projects & enquiries: projects@eduprado.com · Press & personal: edu@eduprado.com
