Carolyn Broe

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Dr. Carolyn Waters Broe is an American conductor, violist, composer, and author. She is the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Four Seasons Orchestra of Scottsdale, Arizona. This excellent professional chamber orchestra was nominated in two Grammy categories for 2000. Carolyn Broe has soloed with orchestras in both California and Arizona. She has performed with many celebrities. Her Bachelor of Music is from Chapman University. Broe earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Music History from California State University Long Beach. She earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts from Arizona State University. She has taught for twenty years in several Maricopa colleges. Carolyn Waters Broe wrote her Masters thesis on "J.S. Bach's Treatment of the Viola in his Cantatas and Brandenburg Concertos". She wrote her Doctoral dissertation on "The String Compositions of Louise Lincoln Kerr: Analysis And Editing of Five Solo Viola Pieces". Broe has written and published many journal articles on women composers and viola composers. She is the first biographer of Louise Lincoln Kerr who was an Arizona composer and philanthropist. Carolyn Broe has produced the first CD of Louise Kerr's chamber music "Arizona Profiles". She has also published several journal articles on L.L. Kerr's music. She is the first editor and publisher of Kerr's music. Dr. Broe has conducted concerts of music by both male and female composers in Arizona. She was the first to conduct Kerr's symphonic tone poem for orchestra and soprano "Enchanted Mesa" in Europe for the Haydn Bicentennial Festival of 2009. Carolyn Waters Broe has recently published "Fifty Famous Composers For Kids Of All Ages" in 2021. This book contains the biographies of twenty-five famous male composers and twenty-five famous female composers. It has won the Mom's Choice Gold Award for 2021, two Finalist Awards in the International Book Awards in 2022, and the Book Excellence Awars in 2023. Carolyn Broe is currently teaching violin, viola, cello, and piano in her private studio in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is also the Principal Violist of the Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra and the violist with the Four Seasons String Quartet.

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The music of Louise Lincoln Kerr

Ihis recital is given in partial fulfillment of the performance requirements for the degree Docto... more Ihis recital is given in partial fulfillment of the performance requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in viola performance. Caroiyn Waters Broe is a student of William Magers. Carolyn Waters Broe is a recipient of the Louise Kerr Endowment. In respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please turn all beepers, cell phones, watches to their silent mode. Thank you. .Perforrrtrance ll,vents Staff Manager , ,.

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The String Compositions of Louise Lincoln Kerr: Analysis and Editing of Five Solo Viola Pieces

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Abstract - Fifty Famous Composers For Kids Of All Ages

Fifty Famous Composers for Kids of All Ages, 2021

Fifty Famous Composers for Kids of All Ages was written and researched by Dr. Carolyn Waters Broe... more Fifty Famous Composers for Kids of All Ages was written and researched by Dr. Carolyn Waters Broe with a grant from the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). It was released in June of 2021 by Inkwell Books. Fifty Famous Composers for Kids of All Ages is a book of short biographies about the lives of famous male and female classical composers. You will discover how each of these composers grew up and what motivated them to become composers. This book explores the stories of these musicians and how they came to be famous. You will learn about composers who were child prodigies, won competitions, got into duels, got arrested, died young, and composed great masterworks of music. Fifty Famous Composers includes twenty-five famous male composers and twenty-five famous female composers. Many of these composers will be familiar such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Others like Elizabeth Jacquet, Marianne von Martinez, Clara Schumann, Emile Meyers, Florence Price, and Joseph Bologne will be celebrated by music lovers reading this book.

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Viola Music by Women Composers

American String Teacher, 2007

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The music of Louise Lincoln Kerr

The Viola Music Of Louise Lincoln Kerr

Journal of the American Viola Society, 2012

"The Viola Music of Louise Lincoln Kerr" is an article about the life and music of violist and c... more "The Viola Music of Louise Lincoln Kerr" is an article about the life and music of violist and composer Louise Lincoln Kerr (1892-1977). This article was written for the Journal of the American Viola Society by Dr. Carolyn Waters Broe. She wrote her Doctoral dissertation on Louise Kerr's string literature. This article is a condensed version of her research that includes information about Kerr's life, her compositional style, her string pieces, and her influences. There is detailed information about Louise Kerr's String Quartet in A Major, her Five Character Pieces for Viola and Piano, her Violin Concerto, and her String Duo for Violin and Viola.
Louise Kerr studied composition with two Columbia University theory professors in 1910 while she was attending Barnard College for Women in New York. She composed many pieces in the Southwest Impressionist style while she was living in Arizona. Kerr used Native American melodies and Southwest folk songs in her classically based music. She was also influenced by jazz composers while she was working for Aeolian Music Co, in New York City. These influences are reflected in her beautiful music.

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Conversations with Kievman

American String Teacher, 1992

74 o.c. Dounis. Kievrnanmade his debutat Carnegie Hall in New York. He was a founding member of t... more 74 o.c. Dounis. Kievrnanmade his debutat Carnegie Hall in New York. He was a founding member of the Musical Art Quartet and its violist from 1931-37and, from 1937-42, performed in the NBC Symphony under the direction of Toscanini. Kievman moved to California and worked as a studio musician for many years. He was a dynamic teacher and was president of ASTA's Los Angeles chapter. As editor of the Viola Forum of the American String Teacher from 1972-78, he contributed numerous scholarly articles. He was also the author of several widely used string methods. In addition to his involvement withASTA,Kievrnan was a strong leader of the American Viola Society and of the International Viola Society. In the early 1980s, I studied for my Master's degree with Kievman at the California State University-Long Beach. During this time, he taught lessons and master classes at his home in beautiful Pacific Palisades. (There I saw an incredibletapestrypatternedafter his extremely rare Gasparo da Salo viola.) I would like to share some of the many performance concepts that were imparted to me during several years of lessons and conversations with Kievrnan. Louis Kievrnan was one of the most fiery and dynamic teachers with whom I have ever worked. His energy was focused like a laser beam on every detail of myperformanceandtechniquefrom start to finish of each lesson. I would be exhausted from the intensity of my lesson, while Kievman had tremendous drive even into his seventies. Hewas relentless in his demands for perfection and knew exactly how to tell the studentwhatto do to achieve it.