Kelly Thoma Conversations with Musicians with Leah Roseman #musicpodcast #musicinterview

Kelly Thoma is a Greek musician who plays the Cretan lyra, 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, which you can also enjoy on your favourite podcast player, and detailed show notes with links, and the transcript are are linked here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... ‪@kellythoma2287‬ Kelly Thoma duo with Ross Daly "Anamkhara"    • Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma - Earpigon, Anamkh...   Kelly Thoma duo with Mayu Shviro "Kontylies"    • Kοntylies_ Kelly Thoma_Mayu Shviro   Kontylies Kelly Thoma Quartet "Flutter" video link:    • Kelly Thoma Quartet_Flutter   TOKSO video link:    • Tokso Folk String Quartet   Kelly Thoma website: https://www.kellythoma.com/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:12) Crete, the lyra, Ross Daly (12:13) lyra duo Kelly with Ross “Anamkhara” (18:49) how Kelly discovered the music of Ross Daly and changed her life (33:24) learning and teaching music (43:34)cellist Mayu Shviro (44:43) duo with Mayu Shviro “Kontylies” (51:04) Mayu Shviro (53:29) “Flutter” Kelly Thoma quartet from the album Anamkhara. Mayu Shviro, Paavlos Spyropoulos, Kirill Osherov (57:28) TOKSO quartet (01:01:18) TOKSO compilation video clip (01:06:24) different bowed instruments I’ve featured on this series (01:07:52) Cretan culture, history, food, language (01:18:28) tours to Australia, Linsey Pollak, Tunji Beier, Philip Griffin (01:28:52) the pandemic, teaching online (01:33:27) the importance of performing and why Kelly stopped studying dance (01:40:42) the importance of performing for music students (01:45:41) Labyrinth Musical Workshop opportunites to study in Crete