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featuring Chapel Hill and Carrboro musicians, music teachers, past and present students.

This blog page is for anyone with musical connections to Chapel Hill and Carrboro, to share their reminiscences of their time here.  Please use the contact page to send your story (with dates), and it will be posted on this page.

Laura Thomas - Violin

11/20/2013

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Laura was born and raised in Chapel Hill—that’s right, a true native. She began her
violin studies at age 10 with Susan Black and became a bonafide Tarheel by
attending UNC-­‐CH, studying with Richard Luby and Ann Woodward, and earning
a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. A curiosity about the greenness of other
grasses led her to Wichita, Kansas where she continued her violin studies with
Andrzej Grabiec and Nancy Luttrell, winning a position with the Wichita Symphony
in 1988. Realizing she wanted to raise her children on her native soil, Laura
and family moved back to Chapel Hill in 1998, much to the delight of her
parents. Over the years in NC, Laura has enjoyed playing with the Durham,
Raleigh, Wilmington, Greensboro and North Carolina Symphonies, and is a member
of the recently formed Carolina International Orchestra. She’s thrilled to be
entering her seventh year with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and feels
fortunate to be a part of the vibrant freelance community here that gives her
opportunities to play opera, ballet, choral, chamber, wedding music and so much
more. In addition to serving as concertmaster of the Tchaikovsky Virtuosi and
the Masterworks Reading Orchestra, Laura is a founding member of The BarHop
String Quartet, specializing in non-­‐classical arrangements of jazz, rock,
and alternative music. Her latest venture as a member of the band, Hindugrass
has been a wild journey into a fusion of Indian and Bluegrass music that has
been both challenging and exciting. Laura also enjoys many recording gigs,
spanning a wide spectrum of musical styles. Along with her husband and two
children, Laura lives in the same neighborhood where she was raised. 
 


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