Eugenia Mendez
World Jazz, Folk, Pop Singer
Eugenia is a pianist, singer, composer, arranger, music teacher and creator of children’s music, musical stories and education methodologies for young music apprentices.
After winning the Vienna Musikschulen 1991 annual competition (Vienna – Austria), Eugenia graduated from the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst or Superior School of Music and Performing Arts of Mannheim/ Heidelberg- Germany.
Since 1995, she has performed in very important venues, festivals and jazz clubs in Germany, Austria, England, United States, Mexico and Venezuela.
Her artistry explores the aesthetics of the great Venezuelan, American and European composers and those of the Latin American traditional and jazz music, in a search for affinities and contrasts between rhythms and styles from different cultures and periods.
Parallel to her musical artistic career, and since a very young age, Eugenia has been working on the development of pedagogical methodologies for music education. In 2012, she Co-Founded Kalos Music & Art School, located in Aventura, FL, USA.
As part of the Kalos Music and Art School Academic Director role, Eugenia is in charge of the development of contents for the Music Initiation, piano, Ensemble, Harmony and Musical language programs, among others.