Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez awarded KVNM 2024 Hélène Noltenius Prize

Thursday 12 September 2024

Juan Carlos Mendez Alvarez

Congratulations to doctoral student Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez who has won the 2024 Hélène Noltenius Prize.

Awarded by the Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands (founded as Vereeniging voor Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis and designated as 'Koninklijk' (Royal) in 1994), the KVNM is The Netherlands' professional association of musicologists. Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez won the prize for his MA thesis, entitled "Hauntologies of Music in Latin American Cinema", in which he proposes a special method (the hauntological method) to study the role of music in Latin American cinema and analyzes the soundtracks of three recent films: Lucrecia Martel's Zama (2017), Pablo Larraín's Ema (2019), and Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2019). Under the supervision of Professor Jason Stanyek, Juan Carlos continues to explore Latin American film music from the perspective of hauntology for his doctoral thesis.

Find out more on the KVNM website.

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