— PROFESSIONAL CLARINETIST AND TEACHING ARTIST

Mario Méndez

born in 1995 in Madrid, has been part of several orchestras such as the Young Symphony Orchestra of Arturo Soria, the Young Symphony Orchestra of Adolfo Salazar, the Symphony Orchestra of the Royal Site of San Ildefonso and JMj Symphony OrchestraHe has performed in great concert halls, like the National Auditorium Symphony Hall, the San Lorenzo del Escorial Auditorium and the Miguel Delibes Auditorium in Valladolid.

Mario Méndez obtained in 2019 the Bachelor Degree in Music, with califications of excellent, at the Katarina Gurska School of Music by the renowned master Vicente Alberola, with whom then he also studied the Master in Solo Performance in the same music school and a clarinet course at AlberolaMMCV Academy in Valencia.

He has also enriched his training with numerous master classes and training courses with great international clarinetists such as Jose Luis Estellés, Javier Martínez, Juan Ferrer, Nikita Vaganov, Davide Lattuada and Justo Sanz, learning from all of them to continue developing their musical and interpretive capacity and determining what today is as a clarinetist, musician and person.

In 2021 he began to focus his career to professional orchestral interpretation studying a clarinet and bass clarinet course at the Alberola MMCV Orchestral Academy, in Valencia, witht Vicente Alberola as clarinet teacher and Juan Luis Puelles as bass clarinet teacher.

As a teacher, he has seven years of experience with students of all ages and levels, having taught this instrument at the Sol Menor School and at the Music School of the Colmenar Viejo Music Band Cultural Association

He is currently a Secondary Music Teacher at Bristol College and Los Abetos College, and clarinet teacher at EA Musical Artistic Centre and Municipal Music School of Colmenar Viejo.