BRAVISSIMO FACULTY
Summer Intensive

Professor Sam Broomell was appointed Assistant Professor of Music Education, Director of Bands, and Division Coordinator of Instrumental Music at Palm Beach Atlantic University in 2024. Broomell holds two Master of Music degrees, in Wind Conducting and Music Theory Pedagogy, from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and expects to confer his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting from the Peabody Institute in 2025. He holds bachelor’s degrees in music and business from Franklin & Marshall College. He previously served as Director of the Johns Hopkins University Wind Ensemble, Assistant Conductor of the Peabody Institute Wind Ensemble, and Assistant Conductor of the Franklin & Marshall College Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensemble. He has served as an instructor in conducting, music theory, aural skills, and music education. Broomell has conducted ensembles across the United States including The United States Army Field Band, The Soldiers’ Chorus, The Delaware Winds, The Newfound Chamber Winds, The Allegretto Orchestra of Lancaster, The Rockville Concert Band, and The Hunt Valley Wind Ensemble. Broomell previously taught K-12 music and has served as a clinician and arranger for high school music programs across the country.

 

Professor Broomell was awarded the 2024 American Prize in Conducting in the College and University Band division. He was selected to participate in the 2024 Tidewater Conducting Competition and Fellowship. His past achievements include reaching the semi-final round for a Fulbright Study and Research Grant to Cardiff University, Wales, and serving as a semi-finalist in the National Youth British Brass Band of Great Britain Conducting Competition.
Zhinuo Tang – Flute – Graduated with double majors in Composition and Flute Performance from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Zhinuo Tang was granted the opportunity to further graduate studies with exam exeption and later obtained her Master’s Degree in Flute Performance with top grades.  She studied abroad afterwards at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur des Fossésin France. As a soloist, Tang has been active on stage, holding nearly hundreds of solo and chamber music concerts. She is currently a Flute Professor at the School of Music of the East China Normal University, and the Head of the Wind and String Department.

Veselin Bozhilov is a winner of seven national and two international competitions, as well as a graduate of Lynn University (MM) and Sofia National Music Academy (BM). His teachers include Marc Reese, Jeffrey Kaye, Edward Carroll, Gabriele Cassone, David Shaner, Atanas Dulgerov, and Pencho Penchev.

After joining the Sofia Philharmonic and Sofia Philharmonic Brass at the age of 20, Mr. Bozhilov has performed numerous concerts in some of the most prestigious halls in Spain, Italy, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Nederland, Macedonia, Bosnia, etc. Mr. Bozhilov’s performance engagements include the Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Palm Beach Symphony, Boca Raton Philharmonic Symphonia, Miami Symphony, Punta Gorda Symphony, Cheyenne Symphony, Teatro Lirico D’ Europa, Sarajevo Philharmonic, Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, Bulgarian Festival Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Plovdiv Philharmonic as well as numerous recordings at the Bulgarian National Radio for variety of movie productions and commercials. Veselin is also a member of Symphony of the Americas, where he has served as a trumpet player and soloist for over 10 years. Mr. Bozhilov has appeared several times as a soloist at some of the most prestigious halls throughout Europe and the United States.

Veselin Bozhilov is on the advisory board of the World Trumpet Society. He has performed with some of the most renowned trumpet players, such as Michael Sachs (Cleveland Orchestra), Tom Hooten (LA Philharmonic), Craig Morris (Chicago Symphony), Jose Sibaja (Boston Brass), Marc Reese (Empire Brass), and many others.

As an educator, Mr. Bozhilov is an artist in residence at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Bak Middle School of the Arts, Palm Beach Youth Orchestra, Spanish River High School, Olympic Heights, Don Estridge, Omni Middle School in Boca Raton; his prior teaching experience includes Lynn University Preparatory School and Colorado State University (nonmajors). Veselin Bozhilov has the largest private trumpet studio in South Florida. His students lead Palm Beach All County and Florida All-State bands every year since 2005 and attend the most prestigious summer programs such as Interlochen, Tanglewood, Chosen Vale, Eastern, among others. Students of Mr. Bozhilov are semi-finalists and finalists at the National Trumpet Competition.

Veselin is preparing students for Bak Middle and Dreyfoos School of the Arts, American Heritage, and many others. His students attend some of the finest Universities such as Yale, Stanford, Julliard, Brown, Rice, Duke, McGill, Boston University, Vanderbilt University, University of Southern California, University of Miami, University of Florida, Florida State University, University of Maryland, Michigan State University, University of Central Florida etc.

Karen Fuller, flutist, has been a working musician and teacher in South Florida for over 35 years. She is currently Principal Flute of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, Miami City Ballet’s Opus One Orchestra, The Symphonia Boca Raton, Orchestra Miami, and is also a member of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra. In 1992, she co-founded the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival with several Palm Beach Opera colleagues,appearing on all six of the Festival’s Chamber Music Palm Beach CDs on the Klavier Music Productions label and performing hundreds of concerts for more than 30 years. Ms. Fuller also served as Principal Flute of the Palm Beach Symphony for 23 years, appearing as concerto soloist multiple times. In addition, she performed frequently with Ballet Florida, the Concert Association of Florida and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra for over 15 years and was a member of the Naples Philharmonic for 10 years. She has also performed with Florida Grand Opera and the Sarasota Orchestra, as well as the Munich Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Ballet on their US tours. As a fellow with the New World Symphony, she was featured as a concerto soloist and toured South America and Europe, performing at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and the grand opening of the Bastille Opera House in Paris among other important venues. Ms. Fuller began her undergraduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, then completed her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Flute Performance at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. She is a past 1st prize winner of the New York Flute Club Competition. She also attended Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was an Associate Instructor of Flute while pursuing a doctoral degree before moving to Miami to join the New World Symphony. She currently serves as Instructor of Flute at Palm Beach Atlantic University and is a Palm Beach County Schools Artist-in-Residence at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Bak Middle School of the Arts and Spanish River High School.

Karen Fuller – Flute

Michael Forte – Clarinet

Laura Winters – Bassoon

Veselin Bozhilov – Trumpet

Dr. Michael O’Connor – Euphonium/Trombone

Audrey Destito-Stutt – French Horn

Calvin Jenkins – Tuba

Seth Wexler – Percussion

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