Rich Perks

R I C H  P E R K S  M U S I C

Fretless Electric Guitar | Improvisation | World Music

Rich Perks is a guitarist and composer based in the UK. He is one of the world’s leading exponents of the fretless electric guitar and his work explores intersections between rock, jazz, ambient and world musics. His debut album Imposition (2009) received critical acclaim and his piece Curse of The Sandman won first prize in the International Microtonal Guitar Competition (2023). In 2024 he released Lucid Dream (Music for Fretless Guitars), an album collaboration with Buzz Gravelle. 

Rich is Senior Lecturer in Music Performance at the University of Kent (UK), and Associate Professor in Music at the Institute for Contemporary Music, London (UK).