Dimitri Manga
(Cusco, Perú, 1964) 

Cultural researcher, educator, and musician. His musical studies focus on the aerophones of the South American highlands. He has been a member of various musical groups, such as the Native Instruments Ensemble of the Altiplano of the Brisas del Titicaca Cultural Association. He has carried out extensive outreach activities in Latin American countries, Japan, and the United States. He was part of the interdisciplinary project Waylla Kepa, which involved the registration and cataloging of pre-Hispanic musical instruments at the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru. He currently advises the Center for Music and Dance at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and directs the music research and education project: Pacha Wakay Munan. Through his work, he explores the origins and sonic continuities of ancient American cultures through musical performances with pre-Hispanic instruments (aerophones, membranophones, and idiophones). In their concerts, they perform melodies, timbres, and textures using pre-Hispanic instruments, fostering creativity in their sounds and promoting the appreciation of cultural diversity in Peru and Latin America. They also conduct instrument-making workshops to reproduce, in ceramic, the models and forms of musical instruments bequeathed to us by the ancient Peruvians.