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Ray Bohn is the principal bassist and librarian of Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra in New York, section bassist with Reading Symphony Orchestra in PA, instrumentalist at Saint Francis Parish on Long Beach Island, NJ and teaches at Rowan and Delaware State Universities. He began musical studies on trumpet at the age of seven and added the
contrabass to his interests at age twelve. Dual Bachelor of Music degrees on contrabass and trumpet were completed in 2007 at Rowan University, where he studied with bassist, Douglas Mapp and on trumpet with Dr. Bryan Appleby-Wineberg. He successfully auditioned to attend Manhattan School of Music on both instruments for a Masters of Music degree, but at which point focused on contrabass while studying with David Grossman of the New York Philharmonic. Afterwards, he enrolled at Stony Brook University to complete a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, which was completed in 2017. Here, Dr. Bohn primarily studied with Kurt Muroki and focused on historical and modern tuning practices of the contrabass. He also intensely studied the compositional theories and techniques of Igor Stravinsky, culminating in numerous new arrangements for double bass and piano.

In addition to the orchestras Dr. Bohn is a regular member of, he is an active freelancer and performs with diverse groups such as The Wizard’s Consort touring with Blackmore’s Night, The Irish Tenors, Mario Cantone Live! singer-songwriter Sahara Moon and appears in Amazon Prime’s Mozart in the Jungle. He also regularly appears, amongst others, with orchestras such as Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Binghampton Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of Northern New York and Princeton Symphony, has performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Rockwood Music Hall and The West End and has toured Spain and China.