Pedro Mendez, is a violist and Violinist who was born in Venezuela, and began  his musical studies with  EL SISTEMA in Venezuela. He got his degree in Violin Performance Arts in Vicente Emilio Sojo Conservatory in 2015 and he also studied of Academia Latinoamericana de Violín, under the tutelage of Luis Miguel Gonzalez and José Francisco del Castillo.  

Pedro Mendez has served as Professor and Director of the Latin American Violin School professor at the Vicente Emilio Sojo Conservatory. During his last years in Venezuela, he was dedicated to teaching and he got the position as Professor and Director of the Latin American Violin School in his hometown and also obtained a position as professor at the Vicente Emilio Sojo Conservatory. He has played as a violin soloist with Pedro Leon Torres Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lara Symphony Orchestra and Youth Lara Symphony Orchestra. He has played with some orchestras in the Chicago Area as Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Philharmonic. Right now, he is also violist of the Soto String Quartet, he is the Assistant Principal Viola of Illinois Philharmonic, he is also Co-Principal Viola of the Chicago Civic Orchestra of Chicago and he is the viola fellow in Chicago Sinfonietta Symphony Orchestra as part of the project inclusion.  

Mr. Mendez  is currently a student at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University  in the studio of Almita and Roland Vamos and Li Kuo Chang.