Born in Zaragoza, at seven years old he began music studies at the Conservatory of Zaragoza and Navarra, Spain. These are followed by L’Aula de Musica, Barcelona, Escuela de Musica Creativa, Madrid, Musicians Institute, Hollywood, USA, Maharaja S. M. Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Jaipur, India, Conservatoire de Musique d’Alexandrie, Egypt, Shanghai Music Conservatory in China and Labyrinth Music Center in Greece.

He has studied with great masters such as Roland Dyens (Classical), Scott Henderson (Jazz), Bob Brozman (Blues, Hawaiian), Yurdal Tokcan (Turkish), Ross Daly (Middle East), Hooshang Farahani (Persian), Daud Khan (Afghan), Vishwa M. Bhatt (Indian), Guo Mei (Chinese), Mohammed Antar (Arabic), Ivan Varimezov (Bulgarian).
But curiosity takes him to learn directly from artists and their cultures, traveling to different places to experience the spirit of music. Residing in such exotic places as Hawaii, Africa, China,  America, Spain, India, Egypt, etc.

The guitar is his passion, exploring its many forms; classical and flamenco, Dobros-resophonic, or other interesting ones like African, Hawaiian ki ho’alu (Slack Key), and Kika Kila (Steel Guitar), the ‘Slide’ style from Mississippi, guitar-Veena from India and freetless middle-eastern. He also explores new horizons reflected in his arrangements and compositions based on instruments from other cultures, examples are Japanese Koto, Chinese Pipa, or African  Ngoni and Kora.

To enumerate where Fernando has performed would be a difficult job. We have the Mozarteum University, Austria, Atelier D’ethnomusicologie, Switzerland, Cairo Opera House, Egypt, Ferentino Acustica Festival, Italia, Festival Expo Zaragoza, Spain, Sacred Arts Festival, India, Arequipa Guitar Festival, Peru, The Hollywood Roxy L.A., USA, and The Ritz Carlton Hawaii at “Masters of Hawaiian Guitar” among others.
He has worked as a guitar designer along with master luthiers like Jose de Prados, Prudencio Saez, Luis Guerrero, and Michael Goetz.
He has collaborated with artists such as Shye Bent-Zur (Middle East-India), Grammy and BBC award winner Fathy Salama (Jazz/Arabic, Egypt), G. Kahumoku (Hawaiian) in the Grammy Award “Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key”, Wendell Peters in “Hoaloha Maua” JPF 2006 Award, USA.
He has been the musical director of Escuela Arabe-Flamenco in Casa Arabe, Cordoba (Spain). And has published works about guitar and world music with Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop, Universal, Mojo Roots Music, Mel Bay, Hal Leonard from the USA, Fingerpicking from Italy, and World Music Method from England among others.

MUSIC

– A Beautiful World, Film Music featuring World Guitars (2023)
– World Music Power Trio (2022)
– Celtic Music for Guitar (2021)
– Japanese Traditional Music for Guitar (2020)
– Las Cenizas de Nuestros Padres, Soundtrack (2020)
– Jazz Manouche Guitar (2019)
– Persian Music for Guitar (2018)
– Kurdish Music for Guitar (2016)
– Bulgarian Music for Guitar (2016)
– Guitar & Music of Turkey (2015)
– Guitar & Music of West Africa (2014)
– Greek Music for Guitar (2014)
– Traditional Chinese Music for Guitar (2013)
– Blues & Roots (2012)
– “Alexandria” fantasy for guitar and string quartet (2011)
– Heartbeats from the Middle East (2010)
– Por Amor al Flamenco (2010)
– Guitar & Music of India (2006)
– Music of the World in the Guitar by Fernando Perez (2005)
– “Hoaloha Maua” Hawaiian Guitar (2004)
– “Mojo Roots Music” Slide World Styles for Resophonic Guitar (2003)

VIDEO-DVDs
– Six Strings Around the World (Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop, New York 2014)
– Jazz Manouche (Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop, New York 2014)
– World Music for Fingerstyle Guitar (Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop, New York 2015)
– West African Music for Fingerstyle Guitar (Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop, N. Y. 2015)
– Lap Steel Guitar, Levels 1,2,3 (Weissenborn Co. 2013)
– Blues for Steel Guitar (Weissenborn Co. 2013)
– Country & Bluegrass Steel Guitar (Weissenborn Co. 2013)

BOOKS

– Persian Music for Guitar (Book & Audio) Fernando Perez 2023
– Arabic Maqam Music for Guitar (Book & Audio) Fernando Perez 2023
– Kurdish Music for Guitar (Book & Audio) Fernando Perez 2022
– Keys to Brazilian Guitar (Book & Audio) Fernando Perez 2022
– The Guitarist’s Hand (Book & Audio) Fernando Perez 2022
– Mediterranean Music for Guitar (Online Course) World Music Method, London 2022
– Ultimate Flamenco Guitar (Online Academy) World Music Method London 2022
– Indian Music (Online Course) World Music Method, London 2021
– Turkish Music (Online Course) World Music Method, London 2021
– Learning Japanese Traditional Music for Guitar (Book and Audio) Mojo Roots Music 2021
– Fingerpicking Guitar in DADGAD tuning (Celtic) (Book and Audio) Mojo Roots Music 2021
– Advanced Steel Guitar Method (Book and Audio) Mojo Roots Music 2019
– Microtonal Guitar (Book and Audio) Mojo Roots Music 2018
– Arabic Music for Fretles Guitar (Book and Audio) Mojo Roots Music 2017
– North Indian Music for Slide Guitar (Book and Audio) Mojo Roots Music 2017
– Bulgarian Music for Guitar (Book and Audio) Mojo Roots Music 2017
– Greek Music for Guitar (Book and DVD) Hal Leonard Pub. 2016
– Chinese Music for Guitar (Book and DVD) Hal Leonard Pub. 2016
– Guitar & Music Cultures (Book and DVD) Fingerpicking.net, Italy 2016
– The Complete Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Method (Book and DVD) Mel Bay 2016
– The Encyclopedia of Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Solos (Book and DVD) Mel Bay 2016

Official Website: http://www.fernandoperezguitar.com