Website of ensemble:
State/Province where ensemble is based:
MN
Name of performers in the ensemble and the instruments they play:
Gail Gillispie, lute; Christopher Morrongiello, lute; Douglas Freundlich, lute; Phillip Rukavina, lute
Paragraph about the ensemble:
One of few professional lute ensembles, the Venere Lute Quartet performs Renaissance and Baroque masterworks and is actively expanding the surviving lute ensemble repertoire with its own arrangements. The ensemble has performed throughout the United States and in Europe. Some appearances include the Lute Society of America, the Seattle Early Music Guild, La Guitarra California, Amherst Early Music Festival, Cambridge Society for Early Music, and the Fodella Foundation Series in Milan, Italy. Members of the Quartet are busy lute professionals in four of America's leading early music centers (Boston, New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis) who share a deep commitment to ensemble playing, lute scholarship, and audience education.
Educational/Outreach add-ons available:
The Gigg is Up: Music in Shakespeare’s England; A Grand Tour: Renaissance Music in the Great Courts of Europe; Palestrina’s Lute: Renaissance Music at the Papal Court
Titles of touring programs for 2011-12:
Sweet Division; Palestrina's Lute, Aery Entertainments; Galileo's Father
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