Elena Mendoza
Elena Mendoza (* 1973 in Seville ) is a Spanish composer for contemporary music and musical theater .
life and career
Mendoza studied German literature in her hometown, piano and composition in Saragossa with Teresa Catalán, in Augsburg with John Van Buren, in Düsseldorf with Manfred Trojahn and in Berlin with Hanspeter Kyburz . Several scholarships followed, including at the Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt am Main. She lives and works in Berlin.
She is particularly interested in tonal and dramaturgical issues in instrumental composition. Music theater and the musical possibilities of language also have a special place in her work. In this regard, she set significant accents in 2007 with the music theater production Niebla ( HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden ) in close collaboration with the director Matthias Rebstock. With the same director she worked on the second music theater project La ciudad de las mentiras, on texts by Juan Carlos Onetti, as commissioned by Gerard Mortier for the Teatro Real in Madrid.
She has performed with performers such as ensemble recherche , Klangforum Wien , Ensemble Modern, Vogler-Quartett , Ensemble Mosaik , Ensemble emex , Ensemble Taller Sonoro , Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart , Ensemble Ascolta , KNM Berlin , Ensemble espai sonor , Nuremberg Opera , Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg and others worked together.
Her music has been presented in festivals such as Ars Musica Brussels, Witten Days for New Chamber Music , Eclat Stuttgart, MärzMusik Berlin, Dresden Days of Contemporary Music , Ultrasound Berlin, Nous Sons Barcelona, Acanthes Metz, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Musica Viva Munich or musicadhoy Madrid. She has received numerous awards, for example the Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (2008), the Salzburg Music Prize 2011 (sponsorship award) and the Spanish Premio Nacional de Música 2010.
Elena Mendoza works actively to convey and disseminate newer musical languages, including through hearing analysis and composition workshops. Since December 2014 she has been Professor of Composition at the Berlin University of the Arts .
Her instrumental chamber music can be heard on a CD on the label Kairos (2008), in collaboration with musicadhoy (Madrid) and Deutschlandradio Kultur . Another CD with scenes by Niebla, accompanied by Fe de erratas and Gramática de lo indecible, was released in 2011 on the Wergo label, in collaboration with Deutschlandradio Kultur and the German Music Council.
Her scores have been published by Edition Peters since 2009 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Elena Mendoza in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website Elena Mendoza
- Elena Mendoza at jpc.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mendoza, Elena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish composer for contemporary music and musical theater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seville |