How it all began
It all started when Brad Bohn moved his family to Temecula in 2012. Brad was brought here as the head of sales for a local company. He had been in sales since deciding that teaching music was not for him. He received his bachelors in music education from University of Texas San Antonio in 2001. He taught middle school orchestra for one year and decided it was not for him. He decided to provide for his family in other ways. Thus leading to him moving his family from Albuquerque, New Mexico with hopes for the future. After three months in California Brad was laid off and was in a quandary as to how to provide for his family. Brad played the violin and had taught all six of his kids how to play. When they arrived they found that there were not any school orchestras to speak of. Brad had been approached after playing his violin in church about teaching violin. He started taking on students and started dreaming of the possibilities. It had been his dream to teach youth orchestras. He wondered if anyone had ever created a youth orchestra out of a private lesson studio.
Brad searched the internet trying to find anyone that might have done this. Thankfully he came across Susan Pascale of the LA Children's orchestra. Susan had done this back in 2001 and over the years had grown orchestras to the point of excellence to taking them to the Spring Festival at CARNEGIE HALL in New York City and she had done it 4 times!. Susan was happy to answer Brad's questions and in fact had never been asked how she had done all of this. After three hours of furious note taking Brad was armed with the details and guidelines on how to grow an orchestra from scratch.
The first orchestra in March, 2014.
Within a year Brad had grown the studio into two orchestras taking the top orchestra to a music competition receiving an "Excellent" for their debut competition performance. In 2016 Brad split the top orchestra creating an elite orchestra he called the Chamber Orchestra. This orchestra received the highest score ever received in Music In The Parks history receiving a 97.6.
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The span from the beginning stages to CARNEGIE HALL took six years. Brad took both the Youth Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra to Carnegie Hall in New York in 2019 and received a Gold Rating on their performance equivalent to a Superior or a 90%+ score.
In April 2024, the top orchestra toured Austria and surrounding countries, playing in the most prestigious stages of the world.Here in Mesa Music Academy, we plan on taking the top orchestra to Carnegie Hall in 2027. The easiest way for your child to be advanced enough to participate in such a rare opportunity, sign up for private violin lessons with our professional teacher. To do so, click the button below!
Then in April 2024, the top orchestra toured Austria and surrounding countries, playing in the most prestigious stages of the world.
Here in Mesa Music Academy, we plan on taking the top orchestra to Carnegie Hall in 2027. The easiest way for your child to be advanced enough to participate in such a rare opportunity, sign up for private violin lessons with our professional teacher. To do so, click the button below!