Salvador Persico

In 1993, at the age of 16, Salvador performed for the first time with a local latin band, and now performs frequently within Melbourne's latin music scene. He completed a Bachelor of music performance in Improvisation in 2004 at the Victorian College of the Arts. During his playing career Salvador has had the opportunity the meet and study with great artists such as Raul Rekow (Santana), Rolando Palacios (Afro Cuban All-Stars) and "Ran" (Elvis Crespo).

Some of Salvador's performance highlights include:

> Touring Australia with Blue King Brown Dec 05 - Feb 06 and performing sold out shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Sunshine coast and several festivals such as: Woodford Folk, rhythm and life Festival, Newtown Festival, Festival of the Sun, The Spiegel Tent at the Fringe Festival in Adelaide, just to mention a few.
> The 2005 Grand Final supporting Delta Goodrem, Michael Buble, Silvi Paladino and Dame Edna.
> The musical "Dirty Dancing" in Melbourne's Princess Theatre in 2005
> Supported Hugh Jackman at the 2004 Red Ball Gala.
> Performed on New Years Eve 2003 for Natalie Imbruglia and Daniel Johns wedding in Port Douglas, Cairns.
> Opening the 2001 and 2002 Australian F1 Grand Prix with the Brazilian Style Percussion ensembles Tumbarumba and Bad Boys Batucada.

Salvador is also involved with Shureshock, a funk/soul original Melbourne-based band who are currently fine-tuning a song repertoire for their debut CD.

Salvador's workshops will cover a wide variety of instruments including Brazilian Percussion, Cuban Percussion and Ethnic Percussion and he also teaches Drum kit.

Salvador is now enrolling students for lessons at the Drumtek School of Music.