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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.…
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Rob MacKillop
Life Rob MacKillop is a Scottish lutenist, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist born in 1959 in Dundee, Scotland. Self-taught on guitar as a teenager, he later studied classical guitar at Napier College, Edinburgh, becoming a lecturer there, and subsequently spent four years at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, graduating in 1993 and…
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Ronn McFarlane
Life Ronn McFarlane is an American lutenist and composer, born in 1953 in West Virginia and raised in Maryland. After playing guitar in rock and blues bands as a teenager, he studied classical guitar at Shenandoah Conservatory and later trained at the Peabody Conservatory under Paul O’Dette, Roger Harmon, and Pat O’Brien. He switched his…
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Michał Gondko
Life Michał Gondko is a Polish lutenist and musical director based in Basel, Switzerland. Born and raised in Warsaw, he initially studied classical guitar at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music before moving to Switzerland to concentrate on the lute, eventually graduating from the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he studied under Hopkinson Smith. Since…
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Thomas Dunford
Life Thomas Dunford is a French lutenist born in 1988 in Paris, the son of American viola da gambist Jonathan Dunford and viola da gambist Sylvia Abramowicz. He discovered the lute at age nine and completed his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in 2006, earning his bachelor’s degree in 2009. He began his professional…
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Jadran Duncumb
Life Jadran Duncumb is a baroque lutenist and guitarist of English and Croatian heritage, born in 1991 in Sheffield, England, who grew up near Oslo, Norway, from the age of nine. A finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, he studied guitar under Gary Ryan and lute under Jakob Lindberg at the…