Keir GoGwilt is a violinist, composer, and musicologist who was born in Edinburgh and grew up in New York City. His work combines historical research and collaborative experimentation across a range of musical styles and genres. He has soloed with groups including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Chinese National Symphony, Orquesta Filarmonica de Santiago, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This past season he created and performed a new stage role for “Marie & Pierre” by Bobbi Jene Smith and Celeste Oram with the Basel Ballet and Sinfonieorchester. He is collaborating with the JACK quartet, continuing his project “Zarabanda Variations” exploring histories and futures of the Latin Baroque, and continuing duo projects with Johnny Chang and Kyle Motl. He is also working on an upcoming record of dance tunes from the collections of 18th-century Scottish fiddler, Neil Gow, with Ruckus early music. GoGwilt earned his PhD in Music from UC San Diego in 2022 and was awarded the Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal. His scholarly articles on histories of performance and embodiment have been published in the Bach Journal, Current Musicology, and Naxos Musicology. As an undergraduate at Harvard he studied Literature, and was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts.