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Meet The Conductor
 Dr.
Carolyn Waters Broe, the conductor of the Four Seasons Orchestra,
was inspired to become a musician at an early age by the Dallas
Symphony. She was born in Santa Monica, California and began
playing the piano at seven, violin at eight, and selected the
viola at age ten. While attending the University of California,
Irvine, she worked with conductor Alvaro Cassuto of Portugal
and took viola lessons from Jerry Epstein of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic. She also worked with conductors Mehli Mehta, Zubin
Mehta, and Dr. Michael Zearott during this time. Broe received
her Bachelors of Music Performance from Chapman University in
1979, attending on a Presidential Scholarship. There she studied
conducting from John Koshak, who studied conducting at the Mozartium
in Salzburg. Carolyn Broe became a member of the Long Beach
Symphony in 1979 and worked with Kenneth Skirmerhorn, James
Paul and Akira Endo. She married Steve Broe in 1980, and began
work on a Masters of J.S. Bach's treatment of the viola. She
has been the principal violist and featured soloist with several
orchestras.
Carolyn Broe attended the conducting master class of Herbert
Blomstedt of Sweden in 1981 in California. In 1982 she attended
the conducting master classes of Leonard Bernstein at the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Institute. She received her Masters of
Fine Arts in Music from California State University at Long
Beach in 1984. Broe studied with violist Louis Kievman, who
performed in Toscannini's NBC Symphony, and Adriana Chirilov,
a concert violist who defected from Romania, Dr. Thomas Hall
at Chapman College, Robert Becker of the Pacific Symphony, and
Rene Bregozzo from the Bologna Conservatory in Italy. She received
her Doctorate in Viola Solo Performance at ASU in 2001 while
working with renowned violist Dr. William Magers. Her dissertation
work was on violist and composer Louise Lincoln Kerr of Scottsdale,
Arizona.
 As an arts coordinator, Dr. Broe has founded several artistic
groups, including the Opus Four String Quartet, the Capistrano
Chamber Players, and the Orange County Four Seasons Orchestra
in California. In 1991 she founded both the Four Seasons Orchestra
of Scottsdale, Arizona and the Four Seasons String Quartet as
Artistic Director and violist. She became the Conductor of the
orchestra in 1992. In 1993 she became the founding Conductor
of the Paradise Valley Community College Chamber Orchestra.
Broe was selected to participate in the 1995 Tanglewood Music
Center conducting master classes with Seiji Ozawa in Massachusetts.
The American Biographical Society nominated Carolyn Broe Woman
of the Year in 1993. She is published in the Cambridge, England
Who's Who of Women. She is listed in the Millennium edition
of Marquis's 2000-2001 Who's Who of American Women. The Four
Seasons Orchestra with Carolyn Broe directing, was nominated
in two Grammy Award categories for 2000. Dr. Broe will be listed
in Marquis's 2002 edition of Who's Who in the World and Dr.
Gray's Complete Book of Women Conductors and Composers. She
is also raising her two children, and teaching violin and viola
in Scottsdale.
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