History

Reading Trails was founded in 2008 by Nick Romeo and Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, and officially launched November 25, 2008.

The People

Reading Trails co-founder Nick Romeo is also a published humor author and music critic. He frequently writes program notes and profiles for Carnegie Hall's Playbill Magazine. He has interviewed or profiled such leading classical musicians as soprano Jessye Norman and conductor Robert Spano. He is also an active program annotator and has recently written program notes for performances by pianists Leon Fleisher and Yundi Li. He is currently working on a set of essays on the Beethoven piano sonatas.

In addition to writing about music, Nick is also the author of a humor book published by Abrams Image called 11,002 Things to be Miserable About, which will be released nationally in early February 2009. To learn more about the book, visit www.ThingsToBeMiserableAbout.com. Nick studied literature, music and philosophy at Northwestern University.

Co-founder Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody studies medieval literature in Poitiers, France, specializing in the troubadours. He supports himself as a freelance programmer. He has also spent time as a tutor in Greece and a math grad student/calculus TA at Ohio State. At Northwestern he studied mathematics, music, and many other things.

Credits

Web design and programming: Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody

Art: Penelope Dullaghan

Incubation and support: Utopian.net Labs