SAMSON, Valerie Brooks

SAMSON, Valerie Brooks American violinist, lecturer and composer. St. Louis, MO, October 16, 1948. She studied under Hugo Norden at Boston University graduating with a B.A. in 1970. Later she studied under Andrew Imbrie and Ollie Wilson at the University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained her M.A. in 1973. She was radio programmer-announcer for WTBS from 1960 to 1970 and Music Director of the Picchi Youth Orchestra in Oakland, from 1971 to 1972. She currently lives in San Francisco…