Lindsey Eckenroth, flute

Whitney George, composer

Nicholas R. Nelson, audio engineer

LINDSEY ECKENROTH is a musicologist and flutist based in Brooklyn. She is a PhD candidate in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center, an adjunct lecturer in music and American Studies at Brooklyn College, a flutist in the interdisciplinary new music ensemble The Curiosity Cabinet, and the Data Coordinator at RILM. Her research interests include representations of popular music(ians) in documentary films, music and/as affective labor, rock stardom and celebrity, and psychogeography.

WHITNEY GEORGE is the artistic director and conductor of The Curiosity Cabinet, a chamber orchestra formed in 2009. She holds an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts and a master’s degree from Brooklyn College, and she is currently a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to her composing and conducting, George teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, works at the Hitchcock Institute of American Studies, and is on the composition faculty for Face the Music.

NICHOLAS R. NELSON is a composer and audio engineer. He holds degrees from the University of Rochester and Brooklyn College of CUNY, and he currently works as the audio engineer at Stony Brook University. His compositions have been premiered across the United States and in Europe. As an audio engineer, Nelson has provided recording and producing services for numerous commercial recordings and audio post-production for short films, features, advertisements, and emerging media productions.