Founder
Dr. Clarice LaVerne Thompson, is a musicologist and a multi AUDELCO award winning composer, arranger and musical director. She is an educator, and was a Professor of Musicology in Africana Studies at Brown University for seven years. Her Bachelor of Arts in Music was conferred at Historically Black College, Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. Dr. Thompson received her Master of Music in music composition and her Doctor of Arts in Music in music history both from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Dr. Thompson has toured England, Ireland and Japan as entertainer, music director and composer.
Dr. Thompson currently serves as minister of music and choir director at Bethel AME Church and gospel choir director at Beneficent Congregational Church both in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Clarice LaVerne Thompson is the founder and artistic director of the RPM Voices of Rhode Island.
