Ruth Bonetti

Ruth Bonetti is a third generation Finland Swede Australian who grew up in the arid Queensland outback, intrigued by the strange-accented relatives she met on holidays near Byron Bay and on visits to 'The Big House' in St Lucia. She preferred Mozart to hillbilly music, books to horses. Ruth's gift for classical music became a passport to the world. Destiny led her to live in Sweden, directly across the Gulf of Bothnia from her grandfather's birthplace in Finland, where she researched the...See more

Ruth Bonetti is a third generation Finland Swede Australian who grew up in the arid Queensland outback, intrigued by the strange-accented relatives she met on holidays near Byron Bay and on visits to 'The Big House' in St Lucia. She preferred Mozart to hillbilly music, books to horses. Ruth's gift for classical music became a passport to the world. Destiny led her to live in Sweden, directly across the Gulf of Bothnia from her grandfather's birthplace in Finland, where she researched the stories told in this trilogy. Ruth is author/editor of a dozen publications about music, education and performance, five through Words and Music and two with Oxford University Press. She is a Fellow of the Migration Institute of Finland where she presented a conference paper in 2014, published in 'Participation, Integration, and Recognition: Changing Pathways to Immigrant Incorporation'. Ruth Bonetti has published in the Institute quarterly journal, 'Siirtolaisuus-Migration Quarterly'. See less