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Konrad Junghänel
Life Konrad Junghänel was born on 27 February 1953 and is a German lutenist and conductor working in historically informed performance. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and has performed internationally as a soloist and with ensembles including Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande, and Musica Antiqua Köln. Particularly known for…
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Anthony Bailes
Life Anthony Bailes was born on 18 June 1947 and is a British lutenist. He began on classical guitar before meeting Diana Poulton and taking up the lute with her, later winning an Arts Council of Great Britain grant in 1971 to study with Eugen Müller-Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. He has…
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Eduardo Egüez
Life Eduardo Egüez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1959. He began on guitar with Miguel Ángel Girollet and Eduardo Fernández before studying composition and, in 1995, earning his lute diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under Hopkinson Smith. A lutenist, theorbist, and guitarist acclaimed for interpretations of Bach, he has performed as a…
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Jakob Lindberg
Life Jakob Lindberg was born on 16 October 1952 in Djursholm, Sweden, and is a Swedish lutenist. Inspired first by the Beatles on guitar, he began studying lute as a teenager and later trained at Stockholm University and the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Diana Poulton and guitarist Carlos Bonell. He made…
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Christopher Wilson
Life Christopher Wilson was born in 1951 and is a British lutenist who has performed widely and recorded extensively across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century solo lute repertoire. He studied with Diana Poulton at the Royal College of Music in London from 1970 to 1972 and made his Wigmore Hall debut recital in 1977. His recordings include…
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Evangelina Mascardi
Life Evangelina Mascardi (born Maria Evangelina Mascardi, April 11, 1977, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) comes from a family of Ligurian-Italian descent. She trained first as a classical guitarist in Argentina before moving to Europe in 1997 to study lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, earning her soloist diploma in 2001.…
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Xavier Díaz-Latorre
Life Xavier Díaz-Latorre was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1968. He trained first as a classical guitarist, studying with Óscar Ghiglia at the Musikhochschule Basel and graduating in 1993, before turning to early music and studying lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Since 1995 he has performed widely in baroque opera and…
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Alberto Crugnola
Life Alberto Crugnola is an Italian lutenist born in Varese, Lombardy. He earned diplomas in classical guitar and lute from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, studying renaissance lute, theorbo and archlute with Paolo Cherici, Tiziano Bagnati and Francesca Torelli before specializing in baroque lute under Eduardo Egüez, with further study alongside Rolf Lislevand, Robert…
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Yair Avidor
Life Yair Avidor was born in Tel Aviv, where he began classical guitar lessons at age ten before his growing interest in early music drew him to northern Europe. He studied at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen with Stephen Stubbs, held a Fodella Scholarship at Milan’s Civica Scuola di Musica under Paul Beier, and completed…
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Miguel Serdoura
Life Miguel Serdoura, also known professionally as Miguel Yisrael, was born on March 31, 1973, in Lisbon, Portugal. He earned a diploma in classical guitar in 1994, then studied lute at the Paris Conservatoire with Claire Antonini before completing his training with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel between 1999 and 2004.…