Eduardo Cedeño, holds a B.A. degree in Music and M.M. degree from Butler University Jordan College of Music in Indianapolis, IN, with post-graduate work at Boston University and additional studies in Europe. He studied voice under the direction of Helena Lazarska, Professor of Music at the University of Music, Vienna, Austria and under André Aerne, Butler University. He won first prize in the International Choir Competition, Guido D’Arezzo, Italy as a Tenor member of the Schola Cantorum of Caracas.
Mr. Cedeño has performed as a conductor, soloist and collaborative artist in the United States, Europe, and South America. As a founding member of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Director and Conductor of the Merida Symphony Orchestra and as a Founding Member of the Philharmonic Choral Group of Caracas, he has worked with the acclaimed José Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema and the Orquesta Nacional Juvenil de Venezuela .
Mr. Cedeño has collaborated with numerous performing organizations including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Opera, Charlotte Civic Orchestra, UNCC Opera and Carolina Voices and various orchestras in Caracas, Venezuela. Eduardo currently serves as Principal Conductor of the Lake Norman Orchestra in Mooresville, NC. He is co-founder, former President and Principal Conductor of the Cornelius Youth Orchestras in Cornelius, and currently President and Principal Conductor of the newly formed Lake Norman Youth Orchestra.
In 2011, Eduardo will join a select group of participants to compete in the Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition with the Bulgarian State Opera, in Burgas, Bulgaria.