Timothy Allen Burris is an American
lute
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nist.
He studied under
Toyohiko Satoh
is a Japanese lutenist and composer.
Life and career
At Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Satoh studied music history with Tatsuo Minagawa and guitar with Kazuhito Ohosawa. He gave his first guitar recital in the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan concert hall in 1965 ...
at the
Royal Conservatory of The Hague
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, graduating in 1988.
From 1990 to 1996, Timothy Burris was lute instructor at th
Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, Belgium
His PhD thesis researches lute practice in 18th-century Dresden:
Lute and Theorbo in Vocal Music in 18th-Century Dresden: A Performance Practice Study(Duke University, 1997)''.
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Currently, he teaches lute at th]
Portland Conservatory of Music
in Portland, Maine
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Recordings
''Bach meets Weiss''
(remastered 2007; originally recorded in 1990 as ''"Lute Music in Kursachsen, Circa 1730"'')
Recording samplesMusic's Quill
at ''Early Music America'')
''Ciaccona''
(2012, includes Mr Burris' transcription of Bach's Ciaccona from BWV 1004)
''The Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part I''
(with Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor, as the ensemble Music's Quill] (2007: Along with Part II, below, constitutes the first complete recording of Philip Rosseter's only book of lute songs)
''The Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part II''
(with Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor, as the ensemble Music's Quill] (2010: Along with Part I, above, constitutes the first complete recording of Philip Rosseter's only book of lute songs)
''Lagrime mie: Early songs of love and torment''
(PGM-103: with Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano)
''Divoti Affetti: Early Music at the Court at Dresden ''
(PGM-106: with Tamara Matthews, soprano; Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; Jorg-Michael Schwarz & Karen Marmer, violins; Loretta O'Sullivn, cello; Timothy Burris, lute & theorbo; Eric Milnes
Eric Milnes (born May 7, 1959) is an American harpsichordist, organist and conductor, especially in the field of Baroque music. He began a series of recordings of all Bach cantatas with singers performing one voice per part and the Montreal Baro ...
, organ & harpsichord)
''The Buxtehude Project: Vol. I: Sacred Cantatas''
(PGM-102: The Sarum Consort; Chamber Choir of St. Peter's in the Great Valley; Martha N. Johnson, conductor, with Timothy Burris on theorbo)
''Dido and Aeneas''
(with soloists Wilke te Brummelstroete Wilke te Brummelstroete is a Dutch mezzo-soprano. She has recorded Bach cantatas with John Eliot Gardiner and appeared as the valkyrie Siegrune in Wagner's ''Die Walküre'' at the Bayreuth Festival.
Career
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, Tom Sol, Paulien van der Werff, and Liduin Stumpel and Koorproject Rotterdam, under the direction of Maarten Michielsen)
''In Morte di Madonna Laura''
(with Vocaal Ensemble Pentacost, includes Mr Burris on theorbo continuo and lute solos by Pietro Paolo Melii and Santino Garsi da Parma)
References
External links
Homepage
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American performers of early music
American lutenists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from Portland, Maine
Year of birth missing (living people)
Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni