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Barr, Stephen
Berry, James
Bohannon, Mariela
Davidson, Warren
Glover, David
Gray, Colleen
Hadley, Susan
Hawk, Mechelle
Hawk, Stephen
Knaub, Maribeth
Johnson, Curtis
Kiser, Candice
Long, Jeremy
Mangone, Jeff
Meixner, Brian
Shuttleworth, Sue
Solomon, Nanette
Steele, Stacey
Tuttle, Paula
Utsch, Glenn
Mariela Bohannon
Mariela Rodriguez-Bohannon is an active freelance artist who performs or is on call with many orchestras of the Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio area including the Columbus Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Wheeling, Akron, Altoona and Westmoreland Symphonies. She is the 2nd Horn of the River City Brass Band and can be heard on their most recent recording “Polished Brass”.
Mrs. Bohannon also held positions with the main orchestras in Argentina and Chile, as well as being called to play with various orchestras in Mexico.
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She has had the opportunity to play with many great artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Vladimir Feltsman, and Franz-Paul Decker.
She won various scholarships and awards from Argentina including the Mozarteum de Santa Fe Competition where she performed a Recital in the Salon Dorado of the Teatro Colon in Argentina.
In the year 2001, Mrs. Bohannon was invited to play Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto 1 with her hometown orchestra (Santa Fe Symphony) under the baton of Maestro Donald Portnoy and again with the Rosario Symphony later that same year.
In 2005 she played first horn in one of the most challenging pieces ever written for the horn, Schumann’s Konzerstuck (Concerto for 4 horns and Orchestra) with the Altoona Symphony Orchestra. She is engaged to play again with the same orchestra the “Villanelle“ by Paul Dukas for Horn and Orchestra in April 2008.
Born in Santa Fe, Argentina, Mrs. Bohannon graduated from the Escuela de Musica and Liceo Municipal de Santa Fe. She holds a Masters of Music degree in Horn from Carnegie Mellon University where she studied with Myron Bloom (former Principal Horn of the Cleveland Orchestra).
In addition to her heavy performance schedule, Mrs. Rodriguez-Bohannon is also very active as an instructor. She has given many lectures, demonstrations, master classes, workshops and private lessons both in Argentina and in the United States. She was a few times a substitute teacher for Myron Bloom at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) and at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). Since 2007 she is the horn coach of the River City Youth Brass Band (RCYBB) and she presently is the horn faculty at Slippery Rock University.
In her spare time, Mrs. Bohannon enjoys listening to recordings containing Vienna horns, singing in the church choir, walking, reading, learning new languages and sharing “yerba mate” (an infusion grown in Argentina) with her husband, family and friends.
She resides in McKeesport, PA with her husband Scott Bohannon (also a horn player) and their beautiful daughter Marisol.