Juan Alonso Mendoza

Born in Bogotá (Colombia), he received his degree in Oboe Soloist at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg (Austria) and subsequently completed a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management, with a laureate master's degree, at the Institute of Cultural Administration-IKM of the University of music from Vienna, thanks to a scholarship from the Mazda Foundation of Colombia. As a professional musician, he has played in different orchestras such as the Salzburg Academic Camerata, the European Symphony Orchestra or the Tenerife Symphony (Canary Islands), among others. He has performed as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the Bogotá Philharmonic and the Valle Chamber Orchestra. His activity as a pedagogue has focused on private teaching of the oboe and chamber music in Austria, Spain and Colombia. His experience in cultural management is very extensive, being an artist manager at the Melos Konzerte agency in Vienna, orchestras such as the Sinfonietta Baden, or also an opera and concert producer at the Austrian agency Opera on Original Site. In 1998 he moved his residence to Madrid, where he joined the production department of the Teatro Real. Since 2000 he has served as Artistic Director of the Albéniz Foundation and its main programs, the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music and the International Chamber Music Institute of Madrid, being also production director of the Santander Music Meeting and Academy and of the “Paloma O'Shea” Santander International Piano Competition. He has been invited as a jury in several competitions both in Spain and Colombia, and his work in Madrid has been recognized within the “100 Latinos” program of the FUSIONARTE Association. In 2019 he was honored by the Colombian Embassy as one of the ten most prominent Colombians in Spain. Since its creation in 2008, the National Flute Academy of Colombia has enjoyed the “Luis Antonio Escobar” Prize, which consists of two tuition scholarships; In the same way, the music program “Tocar y Batalla” of CAFAM-Bogotá and the students of the oboe chair of the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music, enjoy several instruments altruistically contributed by Juan A. Mendoza V.