Cellist, Amanda Gookin is a teacher, chamber musician, and soloist living in New York where she received her Bachelor of Music from the Mannes College of Music and upon graduation, she spent two years as a performing cellist in Barcelona, Spain. She is the cellist and co-founder of PUBLIQuartet, a string quartet which presents standard and rare music from the classical repertoire, as well as contemporary compositions and open-form improvisations; she is the Program Director of the classical music series “Cafe de Concert”, held monthly at Caffe Vivaldi; and she is also actively involved in writing and performing music for live theatre productions. Most recently Amanda's music has been featured on stage for Mortal Folly Theatre's production of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Brave New World Repertory's The American Clock, As You Like It, and the Bushwick Shakespeare Repertory's productions of Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It.