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17 February Platform Jazz: Christian Mendoza<\/h2>\n

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Christian Mendoza (piano solo)<\/h2>\n

Christian Mendoza performs a set of his own compositions, interpretations and free improvisation.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong>
\nChristian Mendoza was born in Peru, but lived most of his life in Belgium.<\/p>\n

After a period as a self-taught musician, he studied at the Conservatoria of Ghent and Brussels, where he had teachers such as Erik Vermeulen, Diederik Wissels, Nathalie Loriers, Kris Defoort, John Ruocco, Jeroen Van Herzeele and Stefan Lievestro.<\/p>\n

He also followed workshops with Bill Carrothers, Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard, Andy Milne, Ralph Alessi, Drew Gress, Bob Mintzer, David Haney, Julian Priester, St\u00e9phane Galland, Christophe Walleme, Bert Joris, Jan Michiels en Moussa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2007 he attended the intensive workshop at the School for Improvisational Music in Brooklyn, NY, a meeting point where inspiring musicians such as Tim Berne, Marc Ducret, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Mark Helias, Jim Black, Tom Rainey sheared their musical concepts. Another inspiring experience was participating to the \u201cInternational Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music\u201d, at the Banff Centre, Canada, with Dave Douglas as artistic director. Faculty there included a.o. Adam Benjamin, Joshua Redman, Matt Penman, Clarence Penn, Tony Malaby, Angelica Sanchez, Ben Street, Hank Roberts and Don Byron.<\/p>\n

Christian\u2019s most important project at the moment is \u201cChristian Mendoza Group\u201d, a quintet with Ben Sluijs (altsax, flute), Joachim Badenhorst (tenorsax, clarinets), Brice Soniano (bass) and Teun Verbruggen (drums). This project did its premiere concert at the festival OdeGand 2008 (opening of the Festival of Flanders). Last August 2009, they won the \u201cPrix du Jury\u201d at the international contest \u201cTremplin Jazz d\u2019Avignon\u201c (France) in 2009. In March 2011, they presented their first recording, Arbr\u2019-en-Ciel (WERF 098) , and did a jazzlabseries-tour in Belgium. They also performed at at the Ghent Jazz Festival 2010, Athens Eurojazz Festival 2011, Tremplin Jazz d\u2019Avignon 2010, Belgian Jazz Meeting 2011.<\/p>\n

Besides that he is very active as a sideman or co-leader in several other groups, such as Gowk (group of Teun Verbruggen), Bender Banjax (winner of the Young Jazz Talent Contest at the GentJazz festival in 2008), Antoine Prawerman\u2019s Vegetal Beauty, a chamberjazz-trio called Sluijs-Mendoza-Vercampt, or the Christian Mendoza trio.<\/p>\n

With those projects he had the oppotunity to play at festivals such as the GentJazz Festival, Dinant Jazz Nights, OdeGand Festival of Flanders, JazzBrugge festival, Jazz in\u2019t Park Ghent, Mexico EuroJazz Festival, Maastricht Jazz Festival. He also performed at several clubs and venues in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Mexico. As a freelance musician he has played with some of the finest musicians of the jazz and improv scene in Belgium, such as Ben Sluijs, Joachim Badenhorst, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Erik Bogaerts, Steven Delannoye, Bart Maris, Laurent Blondiau, Bert Joris, Frederik Leroux, Cl\u00e9ment Nourry, Nic Thys, Yannick Peeters, Claus Kaarsgaard, Manolo Cabras, Lode Vercampt, Lionel Beuvens, Teun Verbruggen, Dr\u00e9 Pallemaerts, Tony Vitacolonna, Moussa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, e.a.<\/p>\n

Since October 2009 he is also teaching jazz piano at the conservatory of Ghent.<\/p>\n

Tickets<\/strong>
\n\u20ac 15 (-26yo \u20ac 12)
\nIf you buy 4 tickets for 1 concert, you can reserve a table separately. Please, let us know with your reservation.<\/p>\n

Entrance<\/strong> Hall Platform, Verlatstraat 20, Antwerp (1st floor)
\nDoors: 7pm
\nStart of the concert: 8pm<\/p>\n

Reservation<\/strong> via ilse@bernaerts.be
\nPayment can be made by bank transfer to account number BE64 1112 5123 5552 stating \u2018Bernaerts Jazz 17 February and number of tickets\u2019<\/p>\n

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