Summary: <p>Kelly Thoma is a Greek musician who plays the Cretan lyra player and this episode has beautiful music and a wide-ranging conversation including Kelly’s personal story of becoming a musician after training as a dancer, Cretan culture, the influence of Ross Daly and the Labyrinth Musical Workshop which he founded in 1982. Kelly speaks so eloquently about her love of music and collaboration; I really appreciate this opportunity to have in-depth conversations with my musical guests; please use the timestamps if you want to jump to any topics or music, but I hope you’ll take the time to listen to the whole episode on your favourite podcast player or the video on my YouTube. Show notes and transcript linked here as well: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/kelly-thoma</p> <p>Please support this series! I really do need my listensers' help and every dollar is appreciated: https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> <p>(00:00) Intro</p> <p>(02:12) Crete, the lyra, Ross Daly</p> <p>(12:13) lyra duo Kelly with Ross “Anamkhara”</p> <p>(18:49) how Kelly discovered the music of Ross Daly and changed her life</p> <p>(33:24) learning and teaching music</p> <p>(43:34)cellist Mayu Shviro</p> <p>(44:43) duo with Mayu Shviro “Kontylies”</p> <p>(51:04) Mayu Shviro</p> <p>(53:29) “Flutter” Kelly Thoma quartet from the album Anamkhara. Mayu Shviro, Paavlos Spyropoulos, Kirill Osherov</p> <p>(57:28) TOKSO quartet</p> <p>(01:01:18) TOKSO compilation video clip</p> <p>(01:06:24) different bowed instruments I’ve featured on this series</p> <p>(01:07:52) Cretan culture, history, food, language</p> <p>(01:18:28) tours to Australia, Linsey Pollak, Tunji Beier, Philip Griffin </p> <p>(01:28:52) the pandemic, teaching online</p> <p>(01:33:27) the importance of performing and why Kelly stopped studying dance </p> <p>(01:40:42) the importance of performing for music students</p> <p>(01:45:41) Labyrinth Musical Workshop opportunites to study in Crete</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leah-roseman/message
