Zoe lives in New York where she is pursuing a master's in Historical Performance at the Juilliard School.

At the recommendation of a low brass player in her mother’s community polka band, Zoe badly wanted to start playing the bass when she was four years old, but it wasn’t until several years later that she finally, and impatiently, took up the bass guitar at the age of eight. Zoe earned her undergraduate degrees in double bass performance and German at the University of North Texas, where she studied under Dr. Gudrun Raschen and Jeff Bradetich, and discovered her passion for early music and historical performance. After a year as a Fulbright recipient teaching English in Germany, in 2024 she returned to the University of North Texas to earn a master’s degree in double bass performance. During her first masters, she continued to gravitate towards early music history in her course work and early music performance in the UNT Baroque Orchestra. She also began playing the viola da gamba under teacher Sydney ZumMallen. Early music at UNT led her to the Juilliard School, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Historical Performance in baroque double bass and violone. She studies with Doug Balliet, Heather Miller Lardin and Sarah Cunningham.

Early music allows Zoe to combine the best of both of her formative music environments: orchestral bass playing and gigging with rock bands in Austin, Texas. She is drawn to the rich tradition and history of academic music and thrives in the expressive freedom granted by the small ensemble size and performance practice of early music ensembles. A bass player to the core, Zoe loves to play her part in a collective. Her playing, solo or in an ensemble, is expressive, elegant, and rarely flashy. For Zoe, the fluid and reactive art created in a church sanctuary with chamber orchestra and harpsichord is made of the exact same electricity she discovered on dive bar stages as a teenager.