 
CONDUCTOR & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, CREATIVE VOICES
Eduardo Mendelievich moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in June 1999 and soon developed a fast-moving career in his field. After conducting the Berkeley ensemble Sacred and Profane for three years, he founded Creative Voices. A strong proponent of Eastern European choral music in the Bay Area, he recently led the Santa Cruz Chorale in a performance of Arvo Pärt's Te Deum. He has also directed major choral works by Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály and Estonian composer Veljo Tormis. Mr. Mendelievich has amassed considerable experience in the recording studio, conducting and co-producing major choral recordings including Francis Poulenc's Four Motets for a Time of Lent, Carlos Franzetti's opera Corpus Evita, and Kodály's Missa Brevis, Jesus and the Traders, The Old Ones and Matra's Scenes (on his celebrated Pictures of Kodály CD). He most recently led CV in recording Café Buenos Aires which showcases and introduces to U.S. audiences an entirely new choral music style, tango scat.
Born and raised in Argentina and musically educated in the rigorous European musical tradition, Mr. Mendelievich is thankful for the inspirational influence of his early maestros Carlos Lopez Puccio and Virtu Maragno, and for the chance to meet and learn from the late Robert Shaw in his last Choral Institute in 1998.
Mr. Mendelievich recognizes diverse musical influences that include Josquin Despres, Meredith Monk, Gustav Mahler, Miles Davis, Gyorgy Ligetti, and Arnold Schönberg--although, deep inside, he sometimes feels no one should have bothered composing music after J.S. Bach. His favorite conductors of all time are Dimitri Mitropoulos, the early Zubin Mehta, Tonu Kaljuste and David Munrow.
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