Pierr Padilla, He/Him
Teaching Artist

Pierr Padilla currently lives in the city of Oakland, California in the United States where he works as a music and dance teacher for children, youth and adults, and as a musician collaborating with groups and artists from the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. He has made artistic tours of America, Asia and Europe. He has also participated in international events as a speaker at conferences, book presentations, and interviews on Afro-Peruvian music. He leads the musical group "Huarango", directs the festival "Afro-Peruvian Fest" and has recently created the international educational platform, "Seminario de Música Afroperuana (Afro-Peruvian Music Seminar)", which was created with the aim of promoting and disseminating Afro-Peruvian cultural traditions and for this it brings together to the most relevant practitioners, artists and researchers of Afro-Peruvian culture today.