Jakob Lindberg

Swedish lutenist Jakob Lindberg began his research on your guitar following being inspired with the music from the Beatles. His electric guitar instructor, Jörgen Rörby, presented him towards the lute, which he continued to review at Stockholm School as well as the Royal University of Music in London. His research with Diana Poulton and Carlos Bonell in London additional focused his passions on executing Renaissance and Baroque music on period equipment. Among the uncommon equipment he uses is among the few extant lutes by Augsburg machine Sixtus Rauwolf (ca. 1595). He provides made a fantastic variety of recordings for BIS, frequently delivering lute music which has nothing you’ve seen prior been documented. The repertoire he provides championed contains lute music by Scottish composers; Italian music for the chitarrone; and chamber music by Vivaldi, Haydn, and Boccherini. He’s the initial lutenist to possess recorded the entire single lute music by John Dowland and he provides received vital acclaim for his interpretations of Bach’s music for single lute. In 1985, he produced the Dowland Consort, focusing on music from the Elizabethan and Jacobean intervals, especially that of Dowland and Weiss. Lindberg provides performed being a continuo participant over the theorbo and arch lute with some of the most energetic period nstrument ensembles, like the British Concert, Taverner Choir, the Purcell Quartet, Monteverdi Choir, Chiaroscuro, the Orchestra of age Enlightenment, as well as the Academy of Old Music. He’s a regular collaborator with performers such as for example Emma Kirkby, Anne Sofie von Otter, Nigel Rogers, and Ian Partridge. For the Royal Swedish Opera on the Drottningholm Courtroom Theatre, he provides directed many Baroque operas in the chitarrone, including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in 1995 (where he co-directed the creation with Andrew Bird) and Jacopo Peri’s Euridice in 1997. Lindberg produced his single recital debut on the Wigmore Hall in 1978, and since that time has toured European countries, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Canada, and america. He teaches on the Royal University of Music in London, where he been successful Diana Poulton as teacher of lute in 1979. Richard Popplewell’s Variants on Brigg Good for single lute (1988) was constructed for Lindberg. Afterwards recordings consist of Weiss: The Silesian Get better at of Lute (2007) and Orpheus in Britain: Dowland & Purcell (2011).