Chazlen Rook is a freshly baked graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma with a BM in String Performance and minors in Historical Performance and Humanities. She is a member of the Painted Sky Opera Company, Enid Symphony, the Stringsmen string quartet, the Y Trio that specializes in collaborating with Oklahoma composers, and Rauland, a Scandinavian folk band for whom she writes music inspired by her time studying ethnomusicology in Norway. Chazlen’s involvements in the arts are centered around history, pedagogy, community building, learning new perspectives, and making Oklahoma weirder.