Lute Festival 2006 Performers
Duo Chambure
Lutenists Edward Martin & Phillip Rukavina     Edward Martin (lutes, vihuela da mano) has performed and taught lute extensively throughout the United States. His teachers include Paul O’Dette, Toyohiko Satoh, and Hopkinson Smith. In 1984, he performed in the First International Lute Competition in Toronto, Canada. In 1997 and 2001 he was the lute instructor at the San Francisco Early Music Series Renaissance Week at the Dominican College, in San Rafael, California. Edward and has made numerous CD recordings including, “The Art of the Lute in Renaissance France” on the Lyre Music label and “El Maestro, Vihuela Music of Luis Milan,” recently released on the Magnatune label. Edward has appeared with numerous ensembles, including the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, MiLQ (the Minnesota Lute Quartet), in concert with tenor William Bastian and with Baroque lutenist Paul Berget. He has been widely published as a critic of various musical recordings and books pertaining to the lute and related instruments. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Lute Society of America and teaches lute at the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, where he holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Lute.

    Phillip Rukavina (lutes, vihuela da mano) studied with Patrick O’Brien at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and with Hopkinson Smith at the Académie Musical in Villecroze, France, and in Basel, Switzerland, the latter with a grant from the Jerome Foundation. He received a second award from the Jerome foundation in 2003. Phillip appears on several CDs with the ensemble Minstrelsy! on Lyrichord Discs’ Early Music Series label and with the Venere Lute Quartet on “Sweet Division” released in 2003 by the Lute Society of America. Phillip is a member of Terzetti and MiLQ (the Minnesota Lute Quartet) and has appeared with Milwaukee Baroque, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Belladonna and many other performing groups. He supplied the solo lute music for the Ballantine Books audiotape release of “The Last Unicorn.” Phillip is currently on the Board of Directors for the Lute Society of America and teaches lute privately in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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