Ed Durbrow: Renaissance lute music..


Ed Durbrow has studied the lute since the mid 1970s. Among his many teachers were Robert Strizich, Paul Odette and a year with Eugene Dombois at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland in 1979-80.

His discography includes a band single recorded in EMI's Abbey Road Studios as a result of winning the first Melody Maker Rock Contest in London in 1972 and a writing credit on an Ueda Masaki number one album in Japan in 1983. He has composed music for TV commercials and other performers CDs in Japan as well as recording much music in his own studio for many diverse artists. He has played all over Japan performing in costume for general audiences many of whom have never seen a lute.

  Ed Durbrow

[Renaissance Lute by Ed Durbrow]

Renaissance Lute



Ed Durbrow lives in Hanno City, Japan.

Tagged as: Classical, Renaissance, Instrumental Classical, Lute, Composer: Alonso Mudarra, Composer: Anthony Holborne, Composer: Francesco Canova da Milano, Composer: Hans Neusidler, Composer: Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Composer: John Dowland, Composer: Josquin des Prez, Composer: Pierre Attaignant, Composer: Robert Ballard, Composer: Vincenzo Galilei.


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