T. Gotsch is a bassist, composer, conductor, and educator from Chicago, IL. Originally trained in the jazz tradition, their communities today span historical performance to new music, and everything in between. As a bassist, they work in continuo sections and rhythm sections, chamber groups and bluegrass bands, as a soloist and in symphony orchestras, and in experimental formats. As a composer, Gotsch’s interests lie in the richly woven tapestry of human and natural stories, polyphony and the contrapuntal tradition, and music rooted in song, dance, and bodies.

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Gotsch studies historical double bass with Heather Miller Lardin and modern bass with Don Palma at the New England Conservatory of Music, where they are pursuing an M.M. in Double Bass Performance with a Concentration in Early Music. They previously earned an A.B. in Music & Geology-Biology from Brown University, where they studied bass with Nancy Kidd, and composition with Anthony Cheung and Wang Lu. Gotsch has also been fortunate to study with bassists Nick Walker, Scott Dixon, David Allen Moore, Owen Lee, and Etienne LaFrance through summers at the Chautauqua Institution and Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix.