Juan Pérez Rodriguez

Juan Pérez Rodríguez was born in Huelva in 1984. He is a flamenco pianist and composer and son of the great singer Sombra (15). His personal concern has led him to take an interest in other music, having graduated in classical music in Spain and Paris; and in jazz at Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA), after receiving a "full schollarship" scholarship, becoming the rare exception of a flamenco musician with a career in classical piano and a great Berklee degree. He has known how to incorporate the knowledge acquired in these musical fields into his flamenco roots, having enriched his sound, and developing a personal language always within the flamenco channels. Pérez Rodríguez has lived in Paris (2008/09) and in the United States (2010/2016). Now since 2016 he resides in Madrid where he combines his work as a musician inside and outside the country with teaching. Meanwhile, despite his young age, the young Huelva-born musician has played in theaters and festivals around the world, including the Flamenco Festival in New York and Chicago (USA), Qatar National Theater of Doha (Doha, Qatar), Teatro Masrah al Madina (Beirut, Lebanon), Maestranza Theater (Seville), BPC Theater (Boston, USA), Roulette Theater of Brooklyn (New York USA) Festival del Cante de las Minas (La Unión, Murcia, Birzeit University (Birzeit, Palestine) ), Boston Performance Center (Boston, USA), Baruch Concert Hall (Haifa, Palestine / Israel), Asunción Jazz Festival (Asunción, Paraguay), Cantabria Jazz Festival (Spain) Regarding his training, it should be noted that he has studied classical piano, in Huelva, Seville, and at the Conservatoire De Boulogne Billancourt (Paris, France), Baroque Organ and early music with the organist Andrés Cea. He studies jazz in a self-taught way, and later at the prestigious Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) graduating in jazz piano and composition with the qualification "Summa Cum Laude", the highest qualification granted by American universities. He has recordings, Fabulare (2010) and Mosaico (2016), and has collaborated on numerous albums by flamenco jazz artists and other genres including Jorge Pardo's latest album "Djinn" (MIN 2017 award for best flamenco album).