Kike Pinto

Kike Pinto - Ethnomusicologist and Professor Of Music at The Catholic University of Peru, Lima.

Since the mid 70s Kike has been researching, and recording and collecting the unique Andean traditional musical instruments that are played by Peru’s indigenous people. Kike visits villages and communities, he records music being played and interviews the regions musicians.

Over the years Kike has learned to play many of the instruments in his collection. During the 80s he began to perform with his instruments in Peru, South America and around the world. (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Canada and others) About that same time Kike also started to write and perform musical scores for films, theatre.

1998: Kike opens a permanent exhibition of his musical instruments collection of more than 400 individual pieces at the historical center of the city. That way, TAKI the first and only traditional Musical Instrument Museum in Peru is founded. ("Taki”: a quechua word which means “song, music, dance and ritual”).

2008: The Instituto Andino Amazónico de Cultura y Desarrollo Social "TAKI" is created as a recognised institution in Cusco, Peru.

2010: Kike’s collection includes more than 400 traditional Andean and Amazonian musical instruments and reproductions from pre-Columbian cultures.

2013: After 20 years in Cusco, Kike moves back to Lima city. He starts organizing temporary exhibitions at the Escuela Nacional de Folklore José María Arguedas, the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú and the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.

2014: - 2015: Kike gives private recitals and lectures to National Geographic groups of visitors in Lima city. Kike plays and gives lectures in Turkey, Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia, USA, Brasil and many Peruvian cities.

2015: Kike starts working as an Andean Music teacher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Facultad de Artes Escénicas, Especialidad de Música.