Jaime Mendoza-Nava

Jaime Mendoza-Nava was born on Dec 01, 1925 in Bolivia. Jaime Mendoza-Nava's big-screen debut came with Fallguy directed by Donn Harling in 1962. Jaime Mendoza-Nava is known for Summer Children directed by James Bruner, Stuart Anderson stars as West and Valora Noland as Diana. The upcoming new movie Jaime Mendoza-Nava plays is Terror in the Swamp which will be released on Dec 18, 1986.

Jaime Mendoza-Nava was born on December 1, 1925, in La Paz, Bolivia, where he received his early musical training. Recognized as a child prodigy, he quickly won the admiration and respect of audiences and musicians alike with his unique compositions and orchestrations. At the young age of seven, he led a memorable concert that raised funds for the construction of an orphanage. He later pursued his musical studies in Buenos Aires, at New York's Juilliard School of Music, at the Royal Conservatory in Madrid, with Nadia Boulanger and at the Sorbone in Paris. Majoring in composition in Madrid, he completed the five-year course in study within one year and obtained the Conservatory's First Prize in 1950. After conducting the Madrid and Lima Symphony Orchestras, he became the music director and conductor of the Bolivian National Symphony Orchestra. In this post, he introduced to his native country important symphonic and chamber works from the modern repertoire and furthered the course of Bolivian national music. He also initiated the orchestra's first national tour in which he made music accessible to the diverse regions of the country. He was a member of the Congres de l'Olimpiade International de Musique in Salzburg and attended its second session in Pasadena, California.