Legendary brass instrument player, teacher, and conductor who commissioned the first ever contrabass Trumpet, designed by George Strucel. The contrabass trumpet is now owned by Lausanne, Switzerland tubist, teacher and ex-Bobo student Serge Gros.
He spent twenty five years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and had close associations with Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini and Andre Previn during those years.
Bobo currently resides in Japan and teaches at the Musashino School of Music in Tokyo.