JUNE 27-29, 2024
ESSAOUIRA, MOROCCO

FRI 28 JUNE
Moulay Hassan Stage

KIKE PERDOMO

Artist

BIOGRAPHY

KIKE PERDOMO

Musician, producer, arranger, sound engineer, educator and composer Kike Perdomo received a scholarship to attend Berklee School of Music (Boston) in 1989, and later earned a degree in Jazz at the ESMUC school of music (Barcelona, Spain). He met up and studied with musicians like Luis Vecchio, Bill Evans (sax), Eric Marienthal, and Dave Schnitter. In the field of classical music, he studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Canarias under the direction of Maximiano Vera. In parallel to his Jazz career, he has collaborated with great Spanish artists such as Luz Casal, Miguel Rios and Joaquin Sabina, with whom he toured across Spain and most of Latin America. On the international scene, he has played, collaborated and recorded with top tier musicians such as Richard Bona, Bill Evans, Tom Coster, Rocky Bryant, Jon Herrington, Pedro Iturralde, Jim Beard, Chuck Loeb, Dick Oatts, Joe Magnarelli, Karim Ziad, and finally “Big Band de Canarias”, the group he founded and continues to conduct to this day.