Juan Pino
Las puertas me gustan abiertas
Pa’ que entren los espiritos curiosos
Y salgan los cuerpos cansados
Portrait by Rebecka Gothen
I was born in Quito, Ecuador, the 11th of July 1980 from my father Bruno, poet, actor, puppeteer and painter; and my mother Santuzza, puppeteer, storyteller and theatre author from Switzerland.
At the age of 4 I moved to the Italian part of Switzerland with my mother. There I grew up between puppets, mountains and dreams. When I was 6 I wanted very much to play drums and be on a stage so I got my first teacher in my hometown Locarno: Oliviero Giovannoni. With him I learned a lot from xylophone to all sorts of percussion during 13 years. In my teenage years I beat anything that would fit my grunge, punk and psychedelic temper.
Between 2000 and 2002 I studied music at the Ecole de Jazz et Musique Actuelle in Lausanne (EJMA, a modern jazz conservatory) and at the Institute Jaques Dalcroze in Geneva (music pedagogy through movement).
To become a jazz drummer wasn’t really for me, so in 2002 I moved to Copenhagen to attend the Centre for Creativity and Theatre 2 years intensive Live and Stage Arts education. There I opened my horizons learning about movement, voice, improvisation, stage awareness and creative process.
After working as a professional musician for 10 years I am now back studying, attending the post graduate program of Musical Accompaniment for Dance at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, I plan to conclude that in 2016.
Bands and projects since 2003:
- Heilung, amplified history, 2017-2018
- Caña Kompañiet, cumbia, 2017-2018
- Fearless Warriors of the Roseland,
Nordic poetic and experimental folk,
2015-2016
- Quemando Palabras, Latin folk,
2007-today
- Mambe & Danochilago, digital cumbia
and global bass, 2016
- Eh Bau, poetic singer-songwriter and
electronica, 2015-2016
- Klub Deroute, monthly music club in
Copenhagen, 2012-2016
- Trypical Cumbia, cumbia and latin,
2013-2015
- Valravn, Nordic folktronica,
2005-2013
- The Orient West Choir, contemporary
arabic/medieval ensemble, 2011-2012
- “Grasping the floor with the back of
my head”, performance with Mute
Comp., 2008-2012
- SUNA, post-folk, 2003-2011
- Virelai, medieval music,
2003-2009
Teachers on music and performance:
- Barbara Wilson, performance
- Arjun Khyapa, baul music
- Adhar Kumar, chhau dance
- Abani Biswas, Grotowski theatre
- Kim Helweg, David Yoken, Niels Berg
and Gert Ø. Pedersen: music for dance
- Tina Tarpgaard and Ole Kristensen:
performance and stage technology
- Dorte Bjerre: contact impro
- Lobsang Palacio: butoh dance
- Ethan Weisgard: aikido
- Mathias Reumert: marimba
- Glen Velez: rhythm and frame drums
- David Kuckhermann: frame drums
- Murat Coskun: Turkish percussion
- Andrea Piccioni: frame drums
- Paolo Cimmino: tamburello
- Pablo Esteban: medieval percussion
- Lori Cotler: rhythm and kanakkol
- Rhiannon: voice and improvisation
- Oskar Boldre: voice and
improvisation
- David Worm: vocal percussion
- Susan Albertsen: mask theatre
- Kitt Johnson: dance and movement
- Barbara von Siebenthal: theatre and
performance
- Lars Bo Kujahn: Arabic percussion
- Catia Olivia: rhythm and
improvisation
- Popol Lavanchy: improvisation
- Claude Buri: music theory
- Andy Appigniani: piano and theory
- Mauro Pesenti: drumkit
- Oliviero Giovannoni: rhythm and
percussion