Ciro Hurtado is a guitarist-composer from Peru who has been actively performing since the early seventies. His early musical career started during his high school years in Lima, performing in music festivals, theater recitals, weddings, birthdays and even funerals.

Hurtado is one of the founding members and currently the musical director of the group Huayucaltia. He has toured extensively in the United States and Peru with them, sharing the stage with artists such as Jackson Browne, Holly Near and Carlos Vives. He has released seven albums with Huayucaltia: "Despertar," "Caminos," "Horizontes," "Amazonas," "Origenes," "Destinos" and "El Tiempo." As a solo artist he has produced and recorded five albums where he leads a Latin Jazz band comprised of top L.A. musicians, featuring notable players such as Alex Acuna and Justo Almario, among many others. His solo effort includes "In My Mind," "Tales from Home," on ROM Records, "The Magic Hour," "Guitarra" under his own label and "Echoes of the Andes" on the Canadian label METACOM. In addition, he has produced and recorded albums for Huayucaltia, LA Law's Michele Greene, Conjunto Jardin, Rosalia Leon and many other talented artists. Most recently he was awarded the prestigious Durfee Master Musician Fellowship.

Ciro has scored and written themes in various feature films and documentaries such as "Baraka," "Dead Women in Lingerie," "Max is Missing," "Hope Street," "Monsters," "Peru: The Royal Tour," "From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks."

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