In addition to a vital and unalterable commitment to the encounter with Music and the guitar, Mejía’s Renaissance spirit has led him to expand his quest for the vast enigma of integrated humanism.
Among his academic achievements are his musical studies in New York (Doctor of Musical Arts, Stony Brook University), Den Haag (Master of Music, Koninklijk Conservatorium) and London (Bachelor of Music, Royal College of Music), in addition to several training courses on both sides of the Atlantic. Social interpellation lead him to study a Master's degree in Politics and Media at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
His written work explores the musical subject from philosophical and social perspectives. Essays: Olivier Messiaen's L' Alouette Calandrelle: a Kantian Approach to the Noumenal in Music; Julian Bream, The Great Dissident of Segovia's Era and Lo Real y el discurso neoliberal. Also unpublished collections of poetry and short stories.
Mejía has performed in multiple venues in several countries in the Americas and Europe. Highlights include presentations at London's Handel House, the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam and The World Monuments Fund Gala in New York.
He has released Obertura and Raíces, two solo guitar albums: hybrid compilations, always dispersed between the interpretative orthodoxy of the established repertoire and his own contributions of reinvention or renewal of the instrumental language as arranger and transcriber of traditional works of Guatemalan music.
Mejía has also made musical collaborations in documentary cinema Los Hijos de Izabal by Antonio Bonny and Pablo Rodríguez, and Abrazos, by Luis Argueta.
He is currently preparing the revision and recording of Joan Manén's monumental guitar work, as well as an excursion through old and new works of contemporary and modernist music in Spain and Latin America.
April, 2022
