Tobi Szuts first came across the viola da gamba when playing modern cello during his undergraduate years at Reed College (Portland, Oregon). After a brief interlude with jazz bass, he came home to Boston - ostensibly to begin his graduate studies in neuroscience - and began studying the viol with Jane Hershey. He is an active performer in the early music community and has played with the Brandeis University Chorus, the Harvard Early Music Society, Seven Times Salt. He performs regularly with the viol consort Long & Away.