When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.
Vincent Aspey
Personal details
Full Name:
Vincent Aspey
Lifetime:
5 Jan 1909 – 18 Apr 1987
Biography
Main image: Vincent Aspey
National Orchestra leader Vincent Aspey playing the violin in the Wellington Town Hall in 1955