Cartography of Modular Spaces for prepared ensemble is the latest work of Spatio-Temporal Cartographies. The work was commissioned by Vertixe Sonora with funds from the UGC (Early Career Scheme Grant). The work was premiere by Vertixe Sonora on Sunday 27th October, 2024 at Martin Codax Auditorium in Vigo, Spain. 
Vertixe Sonora
Clara Saleiro: flute 
Pablo Coello: saxophone
Naiara de la Puente: accordion 
Roberto Alonso: violin
Inés Picado: viola
Myriam García: violoncello
Carlos Méndez: double bass
David Durán: piano 
Diego Ventoso: percussion

Cartography of Modular Spaces

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, and Next Generation Donaueschingen.

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, and MacDowell Foundation.

Vertixe Sonora Ensemble desenvolve un proxecto multifocal que reivindica a cultura autóctona e procura a complicidade doutros colectivos artísticos para conquerir novos espacios de socialización e convivencia ó redor da música contemporánea e crear un estrato cultural sinificativo que posicione a Galicia no contexto internacional da creación e interpretación musical.
Ademáis da realización de concertos procura a dinamización de novos públicos organizando cursos de achegamento e charlas de divulgación, proxectos especializados de formación e iniciativas didácticas que buscan unha participación activa e a comprensión da experiencia musical en toda a súa dimensión.
Cunha programación que se extende por toda Galicia e lle otorgou un protagonismo internacionalmente recoñecido, facilitou a aparición de máis de 75 novas obras da vanguardia musical internacional nos últimos anos, e conseguiu a fidelización dunha audiencia que segue o seu percorrido con interese.

Jon Yu is a Taiwanese-American composer whose music explores notions of ritual, utility, and excess. His recent works focus on sculptural elements in electroacoustic instrumental music.

His music has been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists including Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, loadbang, Wet Ink Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Eco Ensemble, Earplay, AsianArt Ensemble, haegeum player Soo Yeon Lyuh, and percussionist Oded Geizhals. His music has been presented at June in Buffalo, Dian Red Kechil, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Pacific Rim Music Festival, Festival Musica, Festival Barcelona Modern, impuls Festival, outHEAR New Music Week, and IRCAM ManiFeste. He was the recipient of the 2017 Mivos/Kanter Prize for his string quartet O reche modo, and was the laureate of the Prix Alain Baltes for his vocal sextet PEK TI. From 2018-19, he was in residence in Paris at Cité internationale des arts as a fellow of the George Ladd Prix de Paris. He returned to Paris in 2020-21 to study in the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM under Thierry De Mey. He was awarded with a MacDowell Fellowship in 2024. 

Jon completed his PhD in Music Composition at UC Berkeley, where he studied with Franck Bedrossian, Ken Ueno, and Edmund Campion. He holds a Master’s degree from San Francisco State University, where he studied with Benjamin Sabey. He has also studied privately with Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Rebecca Saunders, and Pierluigi Billone. He currently teaches music theory, composition, orchestration, and musicianship as a lecturer at San José State University and UC Berkeley.

Cartography of Modular Spaces

CA Mendez San Juan