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Patricia Zohn | Wallpaper, March 2016

As he stood to introduce three pieces of contemporary chamber music at the Rolex Arts Weekend, including a world premiere, the dynamic Portuguese composer Vasco Mendonça surveyed the audience with a smile (...). For Mendonça, it is his work in opera that anchors his abstract compositions. 'The human voice is my instrument of choice; there´s something overwhelming and vulnerable about it', he says. (...)