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Elena Mendoza (* 1973 in Seville) is a Spanish-German composer of contemporary music and music theatre.

Life

Mendoza studied German in her hometown, piano and composition in Zaragoza 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 questions of timbre and dramaturgy in instrumental composition. Music theatre and the musical possibilities of language also play a special role in her work. In this respect, she set significant accents in 2007 with the music theatre production Niebla (HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts Dresden) in close collaboration with the director Matthias Rebstock. With the same director she worked on the second music theatre project La ciudad de las mentiras, on texts by Juan Carlos Onetti, commissioned by Gerard Mortier for the Teatro Real in Madrid.

She has collaborated with performers such as ensemble recherche, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Vogler Quartet, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble emex, Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Ascolta, KNM Berlin, Ensemble espai sonor, Oper Nürnberg, Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg and others.

Her music has been presented in festivals such as Ars Musica Brussels, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Eclat Stuttgart, MärzMusik Berlin, Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik, Ultraschall Berlin, Nous Sons Barcelona, Acanthes Metz, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Musica Viva Munich or musicadhoy Madrid.

Elena Mendoza actively works on the mediation and dissemination of newer musical languages, including through listening analysis and composition workshops. She has been a professor of composition at the Berlin University of the Arts since December 2014.

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 by the label Wergo, in collaboration with Deutschlandradio Kultur and the German Music Council.

Since 2009, her scores have been published by Edition Peters.

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