Wingel Mendoza was born in Mexico City (1982). He got the Trinity College Bachelor degree in composition in 2009, later he studied in Rotterdam Conservatory with Robin de Raaff (composition Professor) and Rene Uijlenhoet (Electronic music Professor) in The Netherlands in which he got the Master degree in composition in 2014. Later, he studied his Meisterklasse Komposition in the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (Germany) with Professor Robert HP Platz. Nowadays, he is studying the Master program Klangkunst Komposition in the Hochschule für Musik Mainz with Prof. Peter Kiefer and Prof. Ancke Exckardt.

 

In 2016, he was awarded (first prize) with the “Armin Knab Wettbewerb für Komposition” with the piece Cuitlahuac for large Orchestra. In addition, he got the first prize in the composition competition "Von fremden Ländern und Menschen" with the piece “Der Hase des Mondes”. In 2017, he got again the scholarship for young composers “Jóvenes creadores” by the National Fund for Culture and Arts in México (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). In 2017 and 2019 he was awarded by the Freundeskreis Musikhochschule Mainz e.V. in order to pursue his studies in Klangkunst-Komposition.

 

My personal interest like a composer is to expand the context of sound building my own analogue or digital instruments or using external sources like electronic means (live electronics, video, space, image and movement) and also, the interaction with other arts such as dance and/or Theatre, in order to create new possibilities and new ways of perception for the audience. As an Improviser, Wingel looks for different devices as a source of sound, from analog to digital and programming, such as; tape recordings, tape loops, toys, DJ turntables and Supercollider for audio Synthesis. Moreover, he had improvised for different theatres and dance companies. In addition, he had improvised as a soloist and with different ensembles.