Zoe Weiss

Performing widely on the viola da gamba and Baroque cello as both a soloist and chamber musician, Zoe Weiss believes passionately in music’s ability to forge human connections. A founding member of LeStrange Viols, Science Ficta, and the Folk Baroque Trio, Zoe also performs regularly with the Oberlin Consort of Viols and the Smithsonian Consort of Viols. Recent projects have included a solo recital at Cornell University, performing newly-composed works by students at the University of Virginia with Science Ficta, a four-concert celebration of John Jenkins in New York City with LeStrange Viols and Parthenia, and recording an album of previously-unrecorded works from the Düben collection with the ensemble ACRONYM. Zoe is a PhD candidate in musicology at Cornell University where she is writing her dissertation on networks of human and musical relationships within the Elizabethan In Nomine repertoire. Both of LeStrange Viols’s albums, including Æternum, which grew out of her research into the Elizabethan table-book GB-Lbl Add. MS 31390, can be heard on the New Focus label. Currently a Don M. Randel teaching fellow and an instructor for the Cornell Prison Education Program, Zoe devotes much of her time to her students at Cornell and the Elmira Correctional Facility.