Jesse Branovacki

Jesse is a native of Cuyahoga County, having grown up in Olmstead Falls and Strongsville. He grew up surrounded by music, his father and mother playing violin and accordion and siblings playing piano, clarinet, cornet, and cello. Jesse started learning the violin in the Strongsville school system and progressed naturally until high school when he met his violin teacher, the late Jeanette Drinkall Meyer, who insisted on his participation in the Baldwin Wallace Youth Orchestras under Dr. Randolph Laycock, and who would later introduce Jesse to the Parma Symphony Orchestra his senior year of high school.

Jesse wasted no time, entering the workforce after high school and marrying the love of his life, Bernadette, at the ripe age of 21. Soon after, Jesse resumed playing with the Parma Symphony and began serving as the Orchestra’s librarian.

Throughout his life, Jesse has developed a love for playing the violin and also for the acoustical properties and construction of stringed instruments. He tinkers with fiddles in the spare time he doesn’t have and enjoys playing violin as much as possible in church and orchestra.

Jesse considers it one of the great blessings of his life to be a part of Parma Symphony and its community of diverse, enthusiastic, and talented people (both musicians and audience) and thinks there is no experience that can match playing in a full symphony orchestra.

Jesse is a CDL-A, fiddle-playing truck driver and lives in Brook Park, OH with his wife and five children.