By Elizabeth Nash
One performer you must see if you are in San Miguel de Allende is David Mendoza, a young musician from Mexico City who shines on the piano, drums, and violin. He plays a wide range of music genres: classic, romantic, jazz, rock, Mexican, South American folk music, and more.
He is also a great composer, graduating from the National Conservatory of Music from Mexico City. As a very natural and innovative creator, his followers call his music a “healing music,” or in Mendoza’s own words, “Music is an eternal meditation, a profound healing in which dreams can be born that will create a better reality.” Mendoza has the peculiarity to touch souls with his violin—he often makes his followers weep with his music.
Mendoza has been praised by some of the best music teachers in town such as the Grammy nominee composer from England, Michael Hoppè, who was his most recent violin player, praising Mendoza’s ¨wonderfully expressive violin playing, it’s quite simply…one of the most beautiful sounds you can hear.”
It’s quite normal seeing people who already know Mendoza’s capacity bringing their guests to his shows. San Miguel’s Canadian-U.S. community just loves his concerts and also praises him, “David Mendoza is a San Miguel de Allende treasure.”
After some months of traveling and playing in Canada, Mendoza returned to San Miguel and started to give amazing concerts sharing some of the best artists in town performing almost every genre with different musicians around Mexico. Something that only Mendoza can do in town.
For this concert he will share one of the favorite genres of his followers—his ambitious and gorgeous French Music Concert—performing traditional French waltzes by Edith Piaf and Tony Murena, classical music by Erick Satie, as well as presenting contemporary compositions by the French virtuosos Yann Tiersen and Renaud Garcia-Fons. This is beside one of the best accordion players from Mexico City, Diego Soto, the talented Aldo Suárez on double bass, and the young promise Raúl Rios at the drums from Querétaro. And with a special guest, the gorgeous and talented aerial dancer Jenny Salas.
This will take place in the beautiful garden of the Tres Fuentes Hotel Boutique at
Baeza 7 beside the lovely Parque Juárez. Concert starts at 6pm, accompanied by an optional delicious dinner by Tres Fuentes Restaurant during the concert. This is an intimate outdoor venue with comfortable seating for no more than 100 people.
Tickets are available at the Biblioteca Pública, Insurgentes 25, as well as in the lobby of the Tres Fuentes Hotel. If you haven’t listened to this amazing artist, don’t wait to come and live this unique experience.
Elizabeth Nash has a Master’s in Art History from Washington D.C.
Music and Dinner
“David Mendoza Plays French Music Quartet”
Mon., Mar. 13, 6pm
Tres Fuentes Hotel
Baeza 7, Centro
700 pesos Music
750 pesos Dinner (Optional)
