Arturo Pinto

Biography

Kike Pinto, founder and director of the “TAKI” Institute, Cultural Center and Museum of Andean and Amazonian Musical Instruments, unique in its kind throughout Peru, musicologist, composer, singer-songwriter, performer, teacher and cultural promoter, has a private collection of approximately 500 traditional musical instruments, Andean, Amazonian, Afro-Peruvian and from around the world, all of them authentic, collected from their places of origin, communities, towns, etc., together with field recordings of music, interviews and research material.