Lynda Sayce is a British lutenist and theorbo player. She was brought up in Sandwell, where she trained in the youth orchestra, and was originally trained as a flautist. She read music at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, studied lute with Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music, and played continuo with Nigel North. She has performed and recorded with ensembles including Charivari Agréable, Musica Antiqua of London, The King’s Consort and the Dowland Consort, playing the cittern and bandora as well as the lute.

She is also known as a scholar of musical history and a writer on the history of the lute and theorbo. According to her website, she has performed on more than 100 commercial recordings. Her first solo recording, of lute pieces by John and Robert Johnson, was issued on Dervorguilla Records in 1992. In recent times she has also explored the repertoire of the early guitar.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Sayce
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6708576