The London Lutenist - Lutenist

Looking for a Lute player in London? The London Lutenist is the world’s foremost professional black classical lute player and is a concert soloist and accompanist.

His international career has spanned more than thirty years and he specialises in lutes and early guitars and is a champion of the 18th-century, 13-course baroque lute.

He is available for both concert and function work.

He has continued to give recitals online during the coronavirus pandemic and teaches lute and guitar. His special interests include: Black musicians in Early Music; Baroque art and music in 17th and 18th-century Europe and the Americas; the multi-ethnic heritage of lute/guitar techniques. He is also an accomplished portrait artist. 

“quite beautiful… prefers a relaxed flow, enhanced by an attractive tone and sure sense of architecture.” – Gramophone

He has played with the world’s great opera houses and period music ensembles, and had the privilege of accompanying many leading singers including Dame Sarah Connolly, Philippe Jaroussky, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Susan Graham, and Frederica von Stade.

As well as his work in baroque music, he has featured in several productions of Mozart’s operas including Idomeneo at Salzburg Festival with Teodur Currentizs, and onstage in Don Giovani as ‘Django’, a constant companion of the Don (Oper Krefeld), and as a recitative strumming hippie in Cosi fan tutte (Nederlands Opera with Danielle De Niese).

Recent projects include a guest residency at University of Sacramento Guitar Festival offering recitals and masterclasses, and Handel Uncaged: Cantatas for Alto with Lawrence Zazzo, Countertenor on Resonus Classics, 2020.  His collaboration as a Chineke! artist began in 2020 with a project with actors Helena Bohnam Carter, Tobias Menzies and Jamael Westman, and continues with exciting projects currently under wraps.

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