José Luis Madueño
Pianist / composer

Born in Lima-Perú in 1969. He begun his studies of Classical piano with Graciela Vásquez when he was 8 years old. He studied Music Theory, Harmony, Arrangement and Orchestration with his father, Jorge Madueño. He also studied 2 years of Classical piano with Luisa Negri (Claudio Arrau's student) when he was 22 years old and Counterpoint and Harmony with Enrique Iturriaga. His knowledge about Composition and different music styles (rock, jazz, folk, salsa, ethnic) are based on self-taught studies and on the musical experience obtained through his performances since he was 8 years old. His professional career begun when he was 14 years old.

During his career as a musician he has played with peruvian artists like Susana Baca, Elsa María Elejalde, Eva Ayllón, Cecilia Bracamonte, Miki González, Gianmarco, Jean Pierre Magnet, Gabriela Ezeta, Lucho González among others. He had the privilege to learn afroperuvian music playing with very talented cajon performers as Eusebio Sirio "Pititi", Julio "Chocolate" Algendones, Juan Medrano Cotito and Roni Campos. He has also played with foreign artists like Armando Manzanero, María Marta Serra-Lima, Fernando Ubiergo, Nicola Di Bari, Palito Ortega, Luis Aguilé, among others. He has played with some jazz performers like Alex Acuña, John Patitucci, Arturo Sandoval, Spyro Gyra, Don Pullen, Santi Debriano, Steve Tavaglione, Chucho Valdés.

As a soloist, he has worked in different trios, quartets, quintets, etc., playing his compositions based on peruvian folk music, latin music, brazillian music and jazz.