Zoe Tall Weiss

Zoe Tall Weiss is a musicologist and performer who believes passionately in music’s ability to forge human connections, which she explores in both her scholarly and performance work. Zoe is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music where she leads academic classes as well as a Baroque orchestra and a consort of viols. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University where she completed a dissertation on musical and material networks in the Elizabethan In Nomine tradition. Recent scholarly work includes exploring Renaissance rhythm and meter from an individual and ensemble perspective and a book project about modern amateur viol players. Zoe also serves as Vice President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America, a thriving nonprofit organization committed to promoting engagement with the viol. As an active performer on viola da gamba and Baroque cello, Zoe is a founding member of LeStrange Viols, Science Ficta, and the Folk Baroque Trio. She has also performed with the Oberlin Consort of Viols, the Smithsonian Consort of Viols, the Folger Consort, and ACRONYM. Her recordings with LeStrange Viols and ACRONYM can be heard on the New Focus label, including the album Æternum which emerged from her research into the Elizabethan tablebook GB-Lbl Add. MS 31390. Science Ficta’s recording of new works by composer Molly Herron, Through Lines, was released by New Amsterdam Records.