Sean Bradley

Sean Bradley is conductor and violinist living in Los Angeles, California.

His violin teachers included...

* Katy Korngold Hubbard (granddaughter of legendary composer Erich Korngold)
* Harold Ayers (a student of Auer, and concertmaster of Minneapolis Symphony)
* Brian Leonard (a student of Heifetz, studio concertmaster)
* Joseph Genualdi (a student of Galamian and Brodsky, first violinist of the Muir and Chicago string quartets)
* Franklin D'Antonio (a student of Heifetz, concertmaster of the Berkeley Symphony)
* Janice Martin (a student of Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, Glenn Dicterow, Yuval Yaron, Franco Gulli and Mimi Zweig, soloist for the White House, the Capitol and the State Department)
* Mitchel Stern (a student of Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, Arnold Steinhardt, Charles Castleman and Margaret Randall, first violinist for the American String Quartet and concertmaster for the American Symphony Orchestra)
* Ilya Kaler (a student of Leonid Kogan, Victor Tretyakov, and Abram Shtern, gold medalist at the Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Paganini competitions)
* Abram Shtern (a student of David Berthier--a former student of Auer, concertmaster of the Kiev Philharmonic and Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Orchestra)

Mr. Bradley claims, by virtue of his background, he is essentially a disciple of the "Russian School" of violin playing. He cites Harold Ayres, Ilya Kaler, and Abram Shtern as the teachers with whom he spent the most time and most impactful on his approach to the violin.

Moreover, he has had broad exposure to a number of teachers in Jazz, Bluegrass, and alternative styles--having taking lessons also with...

* Paul Stein (Los Angeles Philharmonic, for Mozart)
* Amiee Kreston (Concertmaster of Orchestra du Paris, for orchestra excerpts)
* Jeremy Cohen (Quartet San Francisco, for Tango)
* Mark Summer, cellist (Recording artist, for Jazz)
* Ray Pizzi, saxophonist (Recording artist, for Jazz)
* Carol Kaye, bassist (Recording artist, for Jazz)
* Lesa Terry (Recording artist, for Blues)
* Richard Green (Recording artist, inventor of the "chop", for Bluegrass and chopping)
* Casey Driessen (Recording artist, inventor of the "triple chop", for chopping)

As well as online courses with Nathan Cole of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

As a soloist, Mr. Bradley has premiered original music for the stage by Stephen Schwartz—the composer of the hit musical Wicked—with TheaterWorks in the San Francisco Bay area, and was the featured violinist in a West Coast premiere for Musical Theater West in Long Beach.

Mr. Bradley has served as concertmaster for several regional orchestras in the Southern California area, including the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra, Torrance Symphony, Opera a la Carte, Opera Nova, the Culver City Chamber Orchestra, Mountainside Master Chorale, and as assistant concertmaster for the Orquesta de Baja California.

He has served as principal second violin for the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Ventura Music Festival, Asian-American Philharmonic, Saint Matthews Chamber Orchestra, and El Paso Opera, and performed as a substitute first violin for West Bay Opera.

He performs regularly with symphonies and philharmonic orchestras of West L.A., Southeast L.A., Marina Del Rey, Brentwood, Burbank, Calabasas, Antelope Valley, San Bernardino, Redlands, and Riverside, and has performed with the Mozart Chamber Orchestra, Angeles Baroque Orchestra, the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, the dAKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, and others.

In 2005, Mr. Bradley toured with the Orquesta de Baja California and world famous guitarist Angel Romero to New York City's Lincoln Center, and has toured the entirety of the US and Eastern China four times as a principal player for the Mantovani Orchestra.

As a teacher, Mr. Bradley maintained a large studio of private students through the 90s in the San Fernando Valley, before enlisting in the Army as an Airborne Ranger. After the service, he attended the Eastman School of Music. Upon returning to Los Angeles, he resumed teaching, both as a Band and Orchestra instructor at Glendale Unified School District, and at the Orange County High School of the Arts, where he taught the AP Music Theory, Computer Music Notation, and Strings Masterclass. He then founded an educational company, City Opera, that delivered diverse music education services throughout the LA Unified School District via the district's inaugural Arts Community Partnership Network. During this time, Mr. Bradley concurrently served on the steering committee for the Los Angeles Arts Consortium, and assisted in presenting some of the most notable chamber musicians of our time via professional engagements with two of the West Coast's most visibile chamber music institutions.

He has authored several treatises on music instruction, including...

* How to Practice
* Music : Learn the Basics in an Hour
* Music : A Guidebook for K - 12 Classroom Teachers (How to Think and Talk About Musical Experiences)

Mr. Bradley's private violin studio is *extremely* select; he accepts three or fewer students with short-term goals and/or professional aspirations per year. Eligible private students often receive full scholarships.

You learn more about Mr. Bradley on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bradley

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