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 with Rebecca Saunders and Pierluigi Billone. In 2017, Mendez was appointed as the Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor of the Academy of Music at HKBU.

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, Next Generation Donaueschingen, and Music Biennale Zagreb.

Mendez has been awarded the Colombian National Prize in Composition, Colombia’s highest honor for music composition on two occasions, in 2023 and 2009. In 2021, his work Disappeared Quipu[s] received the first prize in the UiTM String Quartet International Composition Competition. 

He has held residencies and fellowships at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Willapa Bay AiR, the Bogliasco Foundation, Ensemble Recherche and the Goethe-Institut, the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, MacDowell Foundation, and Cite Internationale des Arts Paris.

20α (Twenty Alpha) focuses on the development of experimental art (music/film/intermedia) in Hong Kong. We strive to connect artists from local to worldwide, and provide a platform for interaction and collaboration. Our goal is to share the innovative experimental arts with the local public, especially youth. We believe knowledge and creativity can be generated by deeper level of artistic exchange.

1) To develop Hong Kong experimental art (music/film/intermedia) by supporting local artists and building network;
2) To promote Hong Kong and overseas experimental art to local audiences through festivals and educational programs.

Paul Bonnet & Nathan Roche
2016
Futuroscope + C.I.A débutante @Le Milord, Paris [17/11]
Cmptrthmtcs: @3 rue du departement, Paris [1/12]
@ Vanilla Cafe, Paris [16/12]
2017
@Les Nautes, Paris [15/01]
Le Jour du Seigneur + Arnaud Rivière + CIA Débutante  
@ Le Petit Balcon,Paris [29/01]
Le Non Jazz: L’AUTOPSIE A RÉVÉLÉ QUE LA MORT ÉTAIT DUE A L'AUTOPSIE + CLASS OF 69 + C.I.A. DÉBUTANTE + GAËL ANGELIS [06/02]
CIA Debutante + GREGOIRE FIAUX + Dj set * Marek Voida * K.S @ Yucatan Extension, Vilnius, Lithuania [10/03]
CIA Debutante @ Dildė ir Akvarelė, Kaunas, Lithuania [11/03]
CIA Debutante @ Pils, Riga, Latvia [12/03]
CIA Debutante @ Studium P, Vilnius, Lithuania [13/03]
@Galerie Treize, Paris [13/05]
Rumsteek: AV2 + Das OS + CIA Debutante + Minor Mishap @ Rumsteek, Brussels Belgium [30/06]
Purple Panda Presents: CIA Debutante @ Cafe Fatima, Ghent, Belgium [1/07]
Le Non Jazz: CIA DÉBUTANTE + CARBON SINK + KIKIILIMIKILII + RAVI SHARDJA + SAADA ABE @ Armony, Montreuil, FR [16/07]
CIA Debutante + DJ ShluchT @ Keiths Bar, Berlin, Germany [3/08]
CIA Debutante Live On Cashmere Radio @ Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany [4/11]
CIA Debutante @ M89, Leipzig, Germany [5/08] 
Kikagaku Moyo + CIA Debutante @Huhnermanhattan Klub, Halle, Germany [06/08]
The Rebel + Spray Paint + CIA Débutante @ La mécanique Ondulatoire, Paris [20/08]
Festival Serendip Lab 2017 /// J5 : Hypnobeat Release Party/ James Dean Brown + Josh Cheon + L.A.A.M. + C.I.A. Débutante @ L’Esplanade, Paris [21/10]
Carrageenan/CIA Debutante Tour @ Kielce, Poland [4/11]
@ Lodz, Poland [5/11]
@ Nowica, Poland [6/11]
@ Krakow, Poland [7/11]
@ La Station, Paris, France [9/11]
@ La Machine a Coudre Marseille, France [10/11]
@ Le Marquis de Sade, Rennes, France [11/11]
2018
INVESTIGATIONS INTO FLESH MICROCHIP REPAIR TOUR
TINTA SOCIAL  @ MISKOLC, HUNGARY [21/02] GÓLYA @ BUDAPEST, HUNGARY [22/02] ŽIŽKOVŠIŠKA @ PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC [23/02]
KUNSTBETRIEB @ VIENNA, AUSTRIA  [24/02]
FUGA @ BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA [25/02] NOISE ASSAULT AGENCY @ BUDWEISS, CZECH REPUBLIC [26/02]
MENU MUSIC @ HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ, CZECH REPUBLIC [27/02]
CIA DEBUTANTE / KILL / SISTER IODINE + Andy Bolus films @ Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil 
[02/03]
Gtok Gtok: XYZ (Ian Svenonius & Memphis Electronic) + CIA Débutante @ La Comedia, Montreuil [30/07]
OP OLOOP SE Edition @ Mas de Roussas / Saint-Germain, France [11/08]
2019
January 
2nd Paris - Supersonic 3rd London - IKLECTIK
4th Manchester - The Peer Hat 5th Glasgow  - TBC
6th Edinburgh - Henrys Cellar Bar 7th Aberdeen - D2
8th Sheffield - Jabeerwocky
FEBURARY 
1st Bucharest, Romania - Underworld 2nd Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria - TAM 
3rd Sofia, Bulgaria 3rd - Fabrika Avtonomia 4th Skopje, Macedonia - Bar Kana 
5th Belgrade, Serbia - AKAB Okretnica 7th - Budapest, Hungary - AURÓRA
W/ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE 
19/10 Riga - Č 22/10 Vilnius - Kirtimų Cultural Center 
24/10 Warsaw - CH25  25/10 Wroclaw - Wyspa Tamka
26/10 Poznan - Amore del Tropico 27/10 Gorzów Wielkopolski - TBC
28/10 Berlin - An Der Autobahn 29/10 Hannover - Elka
30/10 Amsterdam - Butcher's Tears 31/10 Ghent - Aap Vlasmarkt 
01/11 Brussels - Le Chaff 03/11 Paris - Le Chinois
2021
September 1 Milano  Circolo IAM in Parco della Martesana  
September 3 Bologna  FREAKOUT CLUB September 6 Roma FANFULLA
September 7 Naples  SECRET SHOW
November
6 - Rennes - bistro de la cité  7 - Nantes - Festival Wine Nat White Heat #7
8 - Bordeaux  - Lieu Secret  9 - Tarbes - Celtic Pub (TBC) 
10 - Toulouse - Le Ravelin 11 - Montpellier - TBC 
14 - Brussels - Madam Moustache 15 - Antwerp - zing zang zong 
16 - Paris - Les Nautes
December 
14 - Troyes - The Message 15 - Metz - La Chaouée
17 - Strasbourg - Le Diamant D'Or 18 - Paris - Bagnoler

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