Christopher Wilke (born 1973) is an American
composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
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lutenist
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More specifically, the term "lute" can refe ...
,
guitarist
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,
recording artist
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, and teacher.
Biography
Born in
Cincinnati
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, Wilke studied guitar and composition at the
College of Mount St. Joseph, and took his master's degree in guitar from the
University of Cincinnati
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's College Conservatory. He completed his
doctorate
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in Early Music Performance with an Emphasis on Historical Plucked Strings (lute, theorbo and guitar) at the
Eastman School of Music
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It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M ...
, under the tutelage of
Paul O'Dette
Paul Raymond O'Dette (born February 2, 1954) is an American lutenist, conductor, and musicologist specializing in early music.
Biography
O'Dette, who was born in Pittsburgh, began playing the electric guitar in a rock band in Columbus, Ohio, w ...
.
Composer
Several of his compositions, including "Emperor Romulus Augustus, His Serious Funk" and "Diatribe," have been published by
Les Productions d'Oz in
Montreal
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,
Canada
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.
Performer
Wilke has given solo recitals in Italy and Germany as well as the United States. He has taught at the
Guitar Foundation of America
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's Convention and the
American Musicological Society
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's Annual Meeting. His recordings have been featured on
Concertzender
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radio in the Netherlands, on Canadian Television, and such
NPR
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programs as
Classical Guitar Alive! and
Sunday Morning Baroque.
Discography
* "De Temporum Fine Postludia II" (
Roman Turovsky
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, : Works for Baroque lute) Polyhymnion 002, 2019
* "De Temporum Fine Postludia" (
Roman Turovsky
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, : Works for Baroque lute) Polyhymnion 001, 2016
* "Desperate Doors" (Works for lute by
J.S.Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suite ...
,
Adam Falckenhagen
Adam Falckenhagen (26 April 1697 – 6 October 1754) was a German lutenist and composer of the Baroque period.
He was born in Groß-Dölzig, near Leipzig in Saxony, but spent the later part of his life in Bayreuth. He wrote tuneful music whic ...
,
Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 168716 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.
Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died. Until ...
2015)
* "Graceful Degradation" (works by
Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a co ...
,
Paul Charles Durant
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Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
,
Franz Joseph Haydn
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and
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (8 April 1722 in Ulm - 11 August 1794 in Ansbach) was a German composer, flutist, and ''Kapellmeister''. Born to a musical family, he composed many works of chamber music and symphonies
A symphony is an extended ...
2013)
* "
Charles Hurel
Charles Hurel was a French Baroque composer, lutenist and theorbist active between 1665 and 1692.
Biography
Charles Hurel was a musician and eminent professor from a prosperous family of Parisian luthiers which included some of the main instrum ...
:
Theorbo
The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck and a second pegbox. Like a lute, a theorbo has a curved-back sound box (a hollow box) with a wooden top, typically with a sound hole, and a neck extending ou ...
Works", Centaur Records CRC 2875
External links
* http://christopherwilke.com
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilke, Christopher
1973 births
20th-century American composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American composers
21st-century classical composers
21st-century American male musicians
American lutenists
American people of German descent
Composers for lute
Living people
Male classical composers
Mount St. Joseph University alumni
Musicians from Cincinnati
Postminimalist composers
Theorbists