On Saturday, 26 May, the Tage Alter Musik instrument exhibition begins in Regensburg, Germany. Follow the link to see available concerts, and a list of attending luthiers. I’ll be there with the instruments pictured above: two bass viols (a division bass and a Renaissance bass), as well as [...]
The “Wszystkie Mazurki Świata 2012” (“All the mazurkas of the world”) Festival will take place in Warsaw, Poland, 7-13 May–just days away at the time of this post! I’m excited to be returning to Warsaw, having lived there for several years when I was in [...]
While in London last November I visited the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the National Gallery and spotted a lovely painting of an angel playing a lira da braccio (credited to Napoletano). My interest was piqued.
You see, we don’t have tons of surviving ‘real-world’ examples of instruments coming from the [...]
I recently gave an interview for the newsletter of the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain, ‘The Viol.’ We spoke about my training on the job as a luthier, the act of instrument making, and even touched on the methodology of teaching and practicing luthiery.
The full text can be found below [...]
Back in 2001 Harvard@Home and the Alumni College asked Prof. Thomas Kelly to speak to the public about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, looking into its historical context and its uniqueness among the great works of western music.
The whole lecture is fascinating, but of particular interest to me was a clip from the questions from the [...]
