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Dr. Carolyn Waters Broe, American conductor, composer and violist (b. Los Angeles, California 1957) has been the featured soloist and conductor with orchestras in both California and Arizona. Carolyn Broe is the founding conductor of the Four Seasons Orchestra which is an all professional chamber orchestra located in Scottsdale, Arizona since 1992. This excellent ensemble performs Baroque, Contemporary and Classical music genres. The Four Seasons Orchestra was nominated in two Grammy categories in 2000 for “Best Small Ensemble” and “Best New Composition”. In 2009 Carolyn Broe conducted the Four Seasons Orchestra in the Haydn Festival in Vienna, Austria at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Esterhazy Palace. She has also performed with the Four Seasons String Quartet. Carolyn Broe received her Bachelors of Music Performance from Chapman University, her Masters in Fine Arts in Music from California State University Long Beach, and her Doctorate in Music from Arizona State University in Viola Solo Performance. She studied conducting with John Koshak, and attended master classes with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa and Herbert Blomstedt. She studied viola with Italian concert violinist René Bregozzo who studied at the Bologna Conservatory of Music, Jerry Epstein of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dr. Thomas Hall Professor of Viola at Chapman University, Louis Kievman who was in the NBC Symphony and a studio musician, Romanian viola virtuoso Adriana Chirilov, and Dr. William Magers Professor of Viola at Arizona State University. She attended Chapman University on a Presidential Scholarship and received a University String Quartet Stipend at California State University, Long Beach. Carolyn Broe wrote her 1984 Masters Thesis on "J.S. Bach's Treatment of the Viola in His Cantatas and Brandenburg Concertos." Carolyn Broe wrote her 2001 Doctoral Dissertation on “The String Literature of Louise L. Kerr” at ASU. She is Louise Lincoln Kerr's first biographer and the first to publish an edition of Kerr's music with her "Five Character Pieces for Viola and Piano". Broe conducted the European premiere of Kerr's 1948 symphonic tone poem "Enchanted Mesa" in Vienna, Austria. Broe discovered the genre "Southwest Impressionism" that Kerr and other Arizona and New Mexico composers were using in the 1940's in step with the Southwest painters. She also nominated L.L. Kerr for the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame, who was inducted in 2004. She released "Arizona Profiles" the first CD recording of Louise Kerr's chamber music with the Four Seasons Orchestra for the 2012 Arizona Centennial.

Carolyn Broe holds several awards including: Woman of the Year from American Biographical in 1993; The Dream Catcher Award of 1995; Marquis’ Who’s Who of Women 2001; The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture “Artists’ Award” for 2005; and the Universal Who's Who of 2012. She has conducted numerous world premieres including the 9-11 works by Tucson composer Thomas Woodson. Carolyn Broe is currently teaching viola at Paradise Valley Community College. She recently toured with the American Festival Orchestra and performed ten concerts in China. She married Steve Broe in 1980 in Corona del Mar, California. They have two children and live in Scottsdale, Arizona.