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Edin Karamazov, born Edin Džananović in 1965, is a Bosnian lutenist and guitarist. He studied lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has worked with ensembles including Hesperion XX, L’Arpeggiata, the Hilliard Ensemble, Mala Punica, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and with singers Andreas Scholl, María Cristina Kiehr, Arianna Savall, and Sting.
He accompanied Andreas Scholl on the album Wayfaring Stranger (Decca, 2001). His work with Sting produced the album and film Songs from the Labyrinth, devoted to the lute-songs of John Dowland (DG, 2007). His first solo project, The Lute Is a Song, featured guests Sting, Renée Fleming, and Kaliopi. His second solo archlute recording, Britten – Bach (Alpha, 2011), features Benjamin Britten’s “Nocturne” and Johann Sebastian Bach’s violin Partita in D minor.
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