Marc Geelhoed

Marc Geelhoed (born 1977 in Muncie, Indiana) works in the President's Office of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the orchestra's in-house record label, CSO Resound. The label produces at least three commercial recordings of live CSO concerts per season, and Geelhoed oversees the project from recording through the release of the compact disc and/or digital download. Prior to this, Geelhoed was a music journalist for Time Out Chicago from 2005 to early 2008.

Geelhoed studied trumpet before turning to journalism. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music at Butler University in Indianapolis, in 2000, where he studied trumpet with Daniel Gosling. He was the associate music editor of Time Out Chicago from 2005 through early 2008.

In the fall of 2000, Geelhoed enrolled as a trumpet major in the Master's program at Indiana University Bloomington. After a year in that program, he switched tracks (and careers) and entered the musicology program at the urging of Dr. Jane Fulcher. While in the musicology program, he began writing for the now defunct Bloomington Independent and the Bloomington Herald-Times. Geelhoed earned a Master's of Arts in Musicology in December, 2003. He also wrote regularly for NUVO, Indianapolis' alternative weekly, before moving to Chicago in 2004. Geelhoed was a freelance contributor on classical music for the Chicago Reader from 2004 through 2005.

Geelhoed wrote numerous previews in that time before joining Time Out Chicago in 2005. He wrote about classical music and jazz.

He has also contributed to Slate and maintains a blog titled Deceptively Simple, which is routinely cited among the most popular classical-music blogs.

Currently, Geelhoed lives Hyde Park, Chicago Illinois.

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