Fernando Perez

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Born in the town of Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, Fernando’s interest in music begun at the age of seven. His first contact with classical music was throughout the conservatory of Spain. After these came numerous private instructors and music centers such as ’L’Aula de Musica’ in Barcelona, ‘Escuela de Musica Creativa’ in Madrid, ‘Musicians Institute’ in Hollywood, California, Maharaja Sawai Mansingh Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Jaipur,India and Arabic Conservatoire du Musique d’Alexandria, Egypt. In these centers he studied traditional, classical and contemporary music styles, as well as harmony, composition, arrangements, orchestration, sound engineering, and other special courses such as Film Scoring, Ethnic music, etc. But his interest took him to learn more directly from artists and their cultures, traveling to different places to not only learn but to experience the spirit of the different musical styles. Nowadays you can realize this experience throughout the talent of this artist who has performed with artists from such exotic places as Hawai’i, Cuba, Jamaica, West Africa, Japan, South, Central and North America, Spain, France, Ireland, India, Egypt, etc. The guitar has always been his passion, an instrument which he explores in its many forms, starting by the spanish classical guitar, acoustic, electric, Dobros or resophonic guitars and continuing with other interesting ones such as african, hawaiian ki Ho'alu (Slack Key) and Kika Kila (Steel Guitar), the ‘slide’ style from Mississippi, Flamenco, or even the curious way of playing guitar in hindustani music found in India. He also explores new horizons reflected throughout his arrangements and compositions based on instruments of different cultures; examples are the japanese Koto, chinese Pipa, or african  Ngoni and Kora. In his performances Fernando has been a musical ambassador supported by the Embassy of Spain and Cervantes Institute representing the music of his native Spain. He has collaborated with artists such as Shye Bent-Zur (Middle East-India), grammy winner Fathy Salama (Jazz/Arabic, Egypt) or his work with George Kahumoku (Hawaiian) in a Grammy Winning concert series called “Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key”. He has several published works representing the music of the major cultures in our planet performed on guitar and has presented them in renowned Theaters, Opera Houses as well as International Music Festivals in the five continents. Examples are: EarthSync Festival, India, Universal Expo 2009, Spain, Mediterranean Countries Dialogue Night, Egypt, Festival of Sufi Music 2009, El Cairo, Roxy Theater, Hollywood, U.S.A. Ritz Carlton Great Hall, Hawaii.  Official Website: www.mojorootsmusic.com  Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/mojorootsmusic
» Assigned style(s):	acoustic , african , blues , classical , contemporary , experimental , flamenco jazz , fusion , gipsy , hawaiian , improvised , indian ragas , jazz , latin , mediterranean music , middle eastern , occidental & oriental , oceania , traditionnal , turkish , world
» Assigned instrument(s):	all types of guitars