Joan Pérez-Villegas

Born in Mallorca in 1994, he began studying percussion at the age of eight at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in Palma. It is not until 2013 that he goes to Barcelona to study the bachelor in classical and contemporary percussion at ESMUC. There he discovers and becomes interested in other music such as jazz and traditional music. So much so that at the end of the degree he starts and finishes the Barcelona Jazz Master’s Degree in Composition under the tutelage of Lluís Vidal. His career has led him to take part in numerous and diverse projects that range from chamber to symphonic music, including jazz groups, music for dance, theatre and film, pop, traditional music, etc. He has also been an academician at the Balearic Symphony Orchestra, guest artist at the SICMF 16’ (South Africa) and at the Festival Cistermusica 16’ (Portugal) with his percussion duo Face two Phase, with which he won first prize at the 4th edition of CIMCA (International Chamber Music Competition Cidade Alcobaça, Portugal). In 2019 he presents Blau Salvatge, his first project as a composer and band leader, he will release the album Blau Salvatge in 2020, while continuing his studies at the HKB centre in Bern with Django Bates y Martin Streule.