Beyond Borders to perform
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| Max Mendes |
The concert will begin at 7:30 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church in Bonners Ferry. Suggested donation is $10.
The four area choirs featured in the concert include: the Key of She from Creston, Resonance: the Selkirk Valley Men's Choir with singers from Creston and Bonners Ferry), She Sings: the Selkirk Valley Women's Choir with singers from Bonners Ferry, Creston, and Troy, and Boundleszs, with singers from Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry, and Creston.
Max Mendez will conduct all the members of these choirs plus other individual singers from our region in three works for this concert.
The singers will enjoy rehearsals and clinics with Mendez throughout the day on Saturday culminating in the performance at 7:30 p.m. The concert will include a wide variety of music ranging from classical to contemporary, from Mozart to Billy Joel.
Max Mendez is currently director of choirs at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene. He has been an active part of the Inland Northwest music community for the last 12 years and divides his time between conducting, teaching and performing throughout the Northwest.
Max served as Director of Music and Choir Director at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in Spokane from 2002 to 2012. He has been a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator for festivals and workshops throughout Idaho and Washington including the Spokane School District Festival of the Arts.
Max has served as a conductor and musical director for Eastern Washington University, Spokane Civic Theater, and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre. He has sung to critical success under Gunther Schuller and the Northwest Bach Festival, the Spokane Symphony, and Spokane Opera.
As an opera artist, he has performed with Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Opera Pacific, Spokane Symphony Orchestra, Spokane Opera, Opera Idaho, and Opera Coeur d’Alene. He has performed with many of the finest concert ensembles in the Inland Northwest including the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, The Mid-Columbia Mastersingers (Tri Cities), Mozart in the Park, Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Chamber Orchestra, Allegro: Baroque and Beyond, Clarion Brass and the Northwest Bach Festival.
As a choral artist, he has sung with the Jane Hardister Singers and the Los Angeles Chamber Singers.
His versatility as a singer ranges from opera and oratorio to musical theatre, cabaret, and popular styles.
Max is a founding member and now Artistic Director of Spokane Choral Artists and a proud member of Male Ensemble Northwest (MEN). He received his Master of Arts in conducting and Bachelor of Arts in Music from Eastern Washington University.