Eduardo Mata (5 September 1942 – 4 January 1995) was a Mexican conductor and composer. Mata was born in Mexico City and studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he studied composition under Carlos Chávez, Héctor Quintanar and Julián Orbón. In 1964 he received a Koussevitzky Fellowship to study at Tanglewood. There, he studied conducting with Max Rudolf and Erich Leinsdorf and composition with Gunther Schuller. Read more on Last.fm