David Mendoza a Composer, MultiInstrumentalist, Improviser, Music Lover

Published February 23rd, 2022

He grew up in a family of musicians, in one of the largest and most prolific cities in the world. Mexico City. He started playing piano by ear when he was 5 years old. Composing large pieces in a very natural way, without any knowledge. He studied violin from the age of 7 with Maestro Jose Manuel de Águila Cortez, violinist of the Chamber Orchestra of Bellas Artes, in Mexico City. At an early age, the facility to express oneself with the violin was revealed. At the age of 12, he began to study Drums, being self-taught for 5 years. At the age of 15, he entered the conservatory college of music in Mexico City in his composition career. In his 17th year, he began formal studies of jazz applied to the drum kit, with the Mexican maestro Antonio «Tony Cardenas» and taking courses and private classes with all the best drummers of the country.

At age 20 he studied composition and piano with the Mexican jazz player and teacher Miguel Zepeda. At 22 he studied composition and Piano with the Mexican pianist and teacher Marta Garcia Renart. He studied Violin Techniques with the Cuban Master Rafael Machado.

He took Violin Courses with the Cuban Master Pedro Cartas. He was part of the group of Mexican virtuoso guitarist Gil Gutierrez for 4 years.

He graduated from the Mexico City Conservatory of Music—and has made a fruitful career performing alongside some of the best musicians in San Miguel de Allende: Gil Guttiérez, Gabriel Hernandez, Pedro Cartas, Michael Hoppe among others.

Making several collaborations with English Grammy-nominated composer Michael Hoppè, who has praised David as «wonderfully expressive violinist…is quite simply, one of the most beautiful sounds one can hear.» Recording new compositions of Michael and being his violinist in live performances since 2017.

For more than 10 years, He has composed for orchestral ensembles and produced albums by musicians from the region; As a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer, he has the capacity to elaborate complete works by himself, from the composition and execution to part of the post-production as well, last year he completed “Birds Fly-In” his first professionally engineered solo album of originally composed and performed music. Available now in all the stream platforms.

At the moment he has toured Canada presenting his original music, as well as a whole year of numerous concerts in San Miguel de Allende and the most representative parts of musical culture in the country.
This year he plans to tour the United States in August unless the pandemic situation continues. David Mendoza´s New Album is Love in Times of War.