Carolyn Waters Broe

Carolyn Waters Broe is an American conductor, composer, violist and writer, who founded Four Seasons Orchestra in 1992. Early life Broe was born to the physicist Warren P. Waters and Lois Virginia Lockwood. Carolyn is married to Steve Broe and has a son, JeanRene Broe, and a daughter, Jasmine Broe. who studied at the Bologna Conservatory of Music in Italy and he later taught violin at the New Conservatorium in Melbourne, Australia. She studied viola also with noted violists Dr. Thomas Hall at Chapman University, Robert Becker She studied conducting at Chapman University with John Koshak who studied at the Mozartium in Salzburg. Broe started her career as the founder and violist of the noted Opus Four String Quartet from 1982 to 1990. Broe founded the Four Seasons Orchestra in 1991 in Scottsdale, Arizona as a professional chamber orchestra. She became their resident conductor in April 1992 conducting a concert of music by Mozart and Salieri for Mozart’s bicentennial. She later conducted concerts of Baroque and Classical Women Composers in 1996 and 2005 in Scottsdale and Phoenix. She conducted a 4 July concert with the Four Seasons Orchestra at Surprise Stadium for 10,000 people in 2