206.779.1515 (please text to set up a phone call) – brendensviolinstudio@outlook.com
Instruments & Instruction Offered
- Violin (Any age, any level)
Lesson Rates
- $38 / 60 min lesson
Education & Experience
Brenden Bachaud (They/Them) began performing professionally with the Richland Light Opera Company Orchestra in 2011. Since then, they have performed with the Mid-Columbia Symphony, the Washington-Idaho Symphony, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra (including being invited to perform on a tour of Northern China), Collegium Musicum Memphis, the Greeley Chamber Orchestra, summer festival orchestras, musical theater companies, and in accompanying ensembles for Mannheim Steamroller and Black Violin.
Bachaud has also spent considerable time performing chamber music, including being a founding member of the Colores Trio, which received the Kendall Feeney award for work in Contemporary Classical Music in 2018.
As a composer, Bachaud composed cadenzas for multiple works for performances as concertmaster of the Columbia Basin College Orchestra, where they also performed concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. They also premiered an original composition based on research by Dr. Jonathan Middleton at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in 2017 with their colleague and fellow violinist Grace Fishel.
In addition to performing, Bachaud has taught violin students across the spectrum of age, economic status, and disability for more than ten years. In teaching, they focus on using materials that are public domain, which can be accessed and printed for free, to help expand access to the study of violin. Their students have been concertmasters and principal chairs for school and youth orchestras, have won auditions with local and semi-professional orchestras, and have won scholarships as music majors at multiple universities.
Bachaud studied with Julia Salerno at Eastern Washington University, graduating summa cum laude and receiving the Dean’s Award of Excellence in 2018, Timothy Shiu at the University of Memphis, studying both classical and baroque violin performance on an instrument and bow that were on loan from the university, and is currently a student of Jubal Fulks.