Conductor, Tenor and Violinist, Eduardo received both his Bachelor of Arts and Masters in Music from the Butler University Jordan College of Music, Indianapolis, Indiana. Here, he conducts The Lake Norman Orchestra, located in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Cedeño, currently serves as Principal Conductor of the Lake Norman Orchestra in Mooresville, NC and is President and Principal Conductor of the newly-formed Lake Norman Youth Orchestra. He is co-founder and former President and Principal Conductor of the Cornelius Youth Orchestras in Cornelius. Mr. 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 in Music Education has completed additional studies in Europe.
Cedeño studied conducting under the direction of Jackson Wiley, Music Director Emeritus of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis, violin under Hidetaro Suzuki, former Concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
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. Prior to his arrival in the United States, Eduardo was Director and Conductor of the Merida Youth Symphony Orchestra, in Merida, Venezuela whom he brought to the United States to perform for the Tenth Pan American Games.
The Merida Youth Orchestra was a participant in the Youth Symphony Fiesta in conjunction with the Greater Indianapolis Youth Symphony and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra (Canada.) Select members of each of these orchestras appeared together as the Pan American Festival Orchestra performing the Festival of Champions world premiere gala concert with famed violinist Josef Gingold as Concertmaster, conducted by renowned composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.
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Eduardo's medal presented to him as Founding Member of the Orquesta Nacional Juvenil (National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela). "Tocar Y Luchar": To play and to fight