Author & musician Brendan Slocum to talk at CLU, April 7
Author & musician Brendan Slocum will visit Intro to Creative Writing on April 7
Musician and novelist Brendan Slocum, author of Violin Conspiracies and Symphony of Secrets, will visit Professor Christina Nation's Introduction to Creative Writing course on April 7, 9:35am.
Brendan Slocumb is a bestselling author with a passion for music. He holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
In 2022, Brendan published his first novel, The Violin Conspiracy, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, the riveting story of a young Black musician who discovers that his old family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius: when it’s stolen on the eve of the world’s most prestigious classical music competition, he risks everything to get it back. In 2023, Brendan published his second novel, Symphony of Secrets, about a music historian who discovers that the world's greatest composer may have stolen the music from a neurodivergent Black woman.
The event is organized by Professor Nation and funded by an Artists and Speakers Series grant.
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March 7, 2026Musician and novelist Brendan Slocum, author of Symphony of Secrets, will visit Professor Christina Nation's Introduction to Creative Writing course on April 7, 9:35am. The event is open to all.
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