Biography

David Bondelevitch, MPSE, CAS, works as a freelance music & dialogue editor and re-recording mixer in. He won a Primetime Emmy in the category of Sound Editing for a Movie for his work as music editor on the TNT original movie The Hunley (1999). He has also won two Motion Picture Sound Editor 'Golden Reel' award for his work as a music editor on the IMAX film Island of the Sharks (1999) and the ShowTime musical Ruby's Bucket of Blood (2001) starring Angela Bassett. He also has a Heartland Emmy award for producing the documentary Above the Ashes (2011).

David was a faculty member at the University of Southern California from 1993-2007, where he taught Intermediate Production (310/508) and Intermediate Sound (540). He also created the course Directing the Composer (473), the first course in the cinema program devoted to film music He has also taught the lecture class Fundamentals of Cinematic Sound (242/507), previously taught by Tomlinson Holman. 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 (1959) has been published on the web. It is required reading at several universities.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Art and Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied documentary filmmaking with Richard 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 MFA in film production from USC. Among the composers with whom David has worked are Randy Edelman Branford Marsalis, Daniel Licht, Christopher Lennertz, David Schwartz, and Alan Williams. He is former president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors, and is a member of the board of directors of the Cinema Audio Society, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the American Federation of Musicians Local 47, and BMI as a writer/publisher.
- IMDb mini biography by: David J. Bondelevitch, MPSE, CAS