Camilo-Andrés Méndez San Juan

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Camilo Mendez is a composer of acoustic concert music. He conceives his works as compositional cycles; series of pieces orbiting around the same musical ideas, but written for different instrumental combinations. He completed a Doctorate and a Master’s in advanced composition at the Royal College of Music in London. He has also studied privately with Rebecca Saunders and Pierluigi Billone. In 2017, Mendez was the Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

His music has been performed by ensembles and soloists who specialize in contemporary concert music and has been featured in such international festivals as Festival Internacional Cervantino, the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, June in Buffalo, Klasik Keyifler, the Mallorca Saxophone Festival, and Next Generation Donaueschingen. In 2009, he was awarded the Colombian national prize in composition for his work Tropical Textures VI. He has held residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Willapa Bay AiR. Dr. Camilo Mendez joined the Academy of Music at HKBU as Assistant Professor in 2018.

Ordered by year. Most recent works appears first

Chamber Ensemble (5 - 9 instruments)


Cartography of Liminal Spaces For solo prepared violin & prepared ensemble (2021)
Cartography of Peripheral Spaces for prepared ensemble (2019)
BURSZTYN VII: Flexidra IV (Collide, Splinter, Splatter) For prepared ensemble (2015)
Mechanical Resonance III (2011)

Chamber Group ( 2 - 4 instruments )


BURSZTYN VI: Minimaquina IIIa For prepared saxophones & accordion (2015)
BURSZTYN II: Minimaquina I For prepared alto flute, saxophones, violin & cello (2014)
Cage-Richter (2012)
Como el ruido levísimo del caer de una estrella (2011)

Solo Instrument


Canción de la Distancia (2011)
BURSZTYN II: Minimaquina I For prepared alto flute, saxophones, violin & cello (2014)
BURSZTYN VI: Minimaquina IIIa For prepared saxophones & accordion (2015)
BURSZTYN VII: Flexidra IV (Collide, Splinter, Splatter) For prepared ensemble (2015)
Cage-Richter (2012)
Canción de la Distancia (2011)
Cartography of Liminal Spaces For solo prepared violin & prepared ensemble (2021)
Cartography of Peripheral Spaces for prepared ensemble (2019)
Como el ruido levísimo del caer de una estrella (2011)
Mechanical Resonance III (2011)