Paolo Cherici is an Italian

lutenist A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can re ...

. He has given performances all around the world, taking part in ancient music festivals. He studied the guitar under Ruggero Chiesa, later continuing with lute studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with

Hopkinson Smith Hopkinson Smith (born December 7, 1946) is an American lutenist and pedagogue, longtime resident in Basel, Switzerland. Smith was born in New York City, the son of architectural writer and photographer G. E. Kidder Smith. He graduated from ...

and Eugen M. Dombois. Cherici has made a large number of recordings, and some have received the highest critical praise (

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

du Siècle). He teaches at the

Milan Conservatory The Milan Conservatory (''Conservatorio di Milano'') is a college of music in Milan, Italy. History The conservatory was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year ...

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cherici, Paolo Living people Italian lutenists Musicians from Milan Italian performers of early music Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni Year of birth missing (living people)