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David Bondelevitch, MPSE, CAS, currently works as a freelance music & dialogue editor and re-recording mixer in Los Angeles. He is currently working on the Lifetime series State of Mind, starring Lily Taylor. He won a Primetime Emmy in 2000 in the category of Sound Editing for a Movie for his work as Music Editor on the TNT original movie The Hunley (starring Armand Assante and Donald Sutherland). He has also won Motion Picture Sound Editor Golden Reel Awards for his work as a music editor on the ShowTime musical film Ruby’s (starring Angela Bassett) and the IMAX documentary film Island of the Sharks. He has been nominated a total of twenty-one times. David has been a faculty member at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts since spring of 1993, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He has taught Intermediate Production (310/508), Fundamentals of Cinematic Sound (242) and Intermediate Sound (540). He created the course Directing the Composer (473), the first course in the cinema program devoted to film music. He has also taught at Pasadena City College and guest lectured at UCLA, UNLV, Columbia College, Chicago, and Chapman University. He is Past President of the Motion Picture Sound Editors, a society with a long history dedicated to recognizing excellence in the field of sound editing. For over fifty years they have hosted the MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Under his guidance in 2004, for the first time the organization hosted a second event, this one at the historic Egyptian theater in Hollywood. Big Movie Sound was a sold-out event and was very well received by members of the entertainment community. In 2005, a follow up Foley Show was equally successful. In addition, under his presidency, a membership drive increased active membership by ten percent. He is Vice President of the Cinema Audio Society and is co-editor of the CAS Quarterly. David hosted the Film Music Network’s seminar on Music Editing in 2002. He was a featured speaker at the 2000 Audio Engineering Society Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where he spoke about Multi-channel Mixing. He was also an invited speaker at the I/ITSEC conference. He has been interviewed along with composers Elmer Bernstein and David Raksin in Trojan Family Magazine. His musical analysis of the score to the film North by Northwest has been published on the web. It is required reading at several universities. He has been quoted several times in Roger Ebert’s “Movie Answer Man” column. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Art and Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied documentary filmmaking with Ricky Leacock, and he holds a separate Bachelor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied composition with Herb Pomeroy. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts in film production from USC. Among the composers with whom David has worked are Randy Edelman, Branford Marsalis, David Kitay, David Bell, Daniel Licht, Christopher Lennertz, David Schwartz, Mason Daring and Alan Williams. He is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Motion Picture Editor's Guild, the American Federation of Musicians (Local 47), the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Audio Engineering Society, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Film Independent, and BMI (Broadcast Music, Incorporated) as a writer/publisher.