Tee Gotsch is as a musician, (very) amateur bird watcher, and lake lover from Chicago, IL. They are a bassist, composer, and conductor, and have been trained in Earth science. As a composer, Gotsch seeks to reconnect human and nonhuman stories by grounding music in its roots of song, dance, and bodies. As a bassist, they are drawn towards interdisciplinary and diverse communities of musicians, equally at home in orchestra, solo, chamber, contemporary, and period contexts.