Chief conductor of Costa Rica's Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia, Eddie Mora is also a composer, and as a conductor, he has championed contemporary Latin American music. Mora is active in the U.S. and Europe as well as in his home country.
Eddie Mora Bermúdez was born in San José, Costa Rica, on January 23, 1965. He studied at the Conservatorio Castella in Heredia and the University of Costa Rica, where he studied composition with William Porras in 1980 and 1981. In 1982, he went on to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he earned a bachelor's degree as a violinist in ...