Huu Bac Quintet confirms its first concert in Peru

Huu Bac Quintet, a renowned musical group that combines its Vietnamese and Chinese heritage with North American jazz, will offer a concert for the first time in Peru. The show will take place next Sunday, June 9, at 7 pm, at the Ricardo Palma Cultural Center, Miraflores.

Its leader Huu Bac Quach, who was born in Vietnam, but grew up in Canada since he was 2 years old, is part of the Sonidos Vivos project, by the Peruvian composer Lucho Quequezana, who invited him in 2006 to a musical trip in Peru with him and to maintain an intimate contact with Afro-Peruvian and Andean music.

During his participation in this musical exchange with top-level artists from around the world, Huu learns to play quena, charango and cajon and incorporates these instruments into his source of inspiration and takes them as his own.

“First the charango caught my attention, because I play the string, and then the quena. “I had never noticed wind instruments until I heard Lucho play the quena,” Huu said that, although he knew nothing about Peruvian music, he fell in love with it when he met it.

“Peruvians play with a lot of flavor, you hear an Afro-Peruvian rhythm or a huayno and you can’t stop smiling,” he added.

In 2013, in Montreal, Huu Bac Quintet performed its first concert as such, supported by a solid team of prominent musicians in the jazz scene in that city. Huu Bac Quach (dan bau, erhu, quena, guitar), Emie Rioux-Roussel (piano), Sébastien Pellerin (double bass), Marie-Neige Lavigne (violin) and Mark Nelson (drums).

In this way, Huu Bac Quintet confirmed its first concert in Peru on Sunday, June 9 at 7 pm at the Ricardo Palma Cultural Center in Miraflores. Tickets are on sale at Joinnus.