I have remained mostly silent regarding the instrument hierarchy debate, but I’ll take this opportunity to say that the bass is both bigger and older than anything else in the string family. I am a freelancer, teacher, producer, and host of Resonance, a classical music podcast. I started taking private bass lessons at 13, but my musical education really began at birth as I listened to my mom, a fiddler and teacher, playing music from the Irish tradition. I grew up with music around the kitchen table and a part of me is always trying to recreate that experience. I was blessed to grow up in a suburb of Boston with a thriving musical culture. I joined the Boston Youth Symphony in my junior year of high school and was inspired by my peers and the amazing music we made there to attend Boston University, where I studied bass with Edwin Barker. I pursued a Masters at New England Conservatory with Todd Seeber, followed by an Orchestral Fellowship with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. I now live in Swanville, Maine, where I delight in delicious locally grown food, abundant access to the natural world, and the humbleness I have acquired discovering the ins, outs, and challenges of life in a rural community.