Veronica Thomas: Violinist, Educator, General Director and her fascinating personal story!

Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

English - July 17, 2022 19:46 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Violinist Veronica Thomas talks about her diverse career, her musical training, her inspiring mother Belva Boroditsky Thomas, and the wonderful work the Centre Préville is doing, including their uniquely flexible and high-quality video-conferencing platform and the incredible arts outreach they've been doing with remote Indigenous communities and more. She is General Director of the Préville Fine Arts Centre which her mother started in 1974. https://centrepreville.org/

The video version of this conversation is linked here along with the transcript and bonus episode: ⁠https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e6-s1-veronica-thomas⁠

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Her mother's memoir is available in print or here: https://books.google.ca/books?id=7D48...

This was recorded June 10, 2021.