Paul O'Dette

Paul R. O'Dette (born February 2, 1954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American lutenist, conductor, and musicologist specializing in early music.

Paul O'Dette at the Festival Oude Muziek 2013 in Utrecht.

O'Dette began playing the electric guitar in a rock band in Columbus, Ohio, where he grew up. Eventually this led him into playing guitar transcriptions of lute music, and not long after that he opted for the lute (as well as the related archlute, theorbo, and Baroque guitar) as his primary instruments, and now he specializes in the performance of Renaissance and Baroque music. He has made more than 120 recordings, earning five Grammy nominations and numerous other awards. In addition to his activities as a performer, Paul O'Dette is an avid researcher, having worked extensively on the performance and sources of seventeenth-century Italian and English solo song, continuo practices and lute technique.

Since 1976, he has served as Professor of Lute and Director of Early Music at the Eastman School of Music. He is the Co-Artistic Director of the Boston Early Music Festival. He lives in Rochester, New York with his wife Christel Thielmann, who is also a baroque music specialist and Eastman professor.

Discography

Solo
  • The English Lute: Music by John Dowland and William Byrd (1979)
  • John Dowland: Musicke for the Lute (1984)
  • Intabolature Da Leuto 'Del Divino' Francesco da Milano (1986)
  • Ancient Airs and Dances: 16th Century Songs and Dances for the Lute (1987)
  • Robin is to the Greenwood Gone: Elizabethan Lute Music (1987)
  • J.H. Kapsberger: Il Tedesco della Tiorba (1990) (reissued as Baroque Lute Music, Vol. I: Kapsberger)
  • Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book (1992)
  • Dolcissima et Amorosa: Early Italian Renaissance Lute Music (1994) (reissued as Lute Music, Volume 2: Early Italian Music)
  • John Dowland: 'Opera Omnia', The Complete Lute Works (5 volumes, 1995-1997)
  • Alla Venetiana: Early 16th Century Venetian Lute Music (1997)
  • Robin Hood: Elizabethan Ballad Settings (2001)
  • Simone Molinaro: Fantasie, Canzoni e Balli (2001)
  • The Royal Lewters: Music of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I's Favourite Lutenists (2002)
  • Nicholas Vallet: Le Secret des Muses (2005)
  • Daniel Bacheler: The Bachelar's Delight (2006)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Lute Works, Volume I (2007)
  • Melchior Neusidler: Lute Music (2008)
  • Marco dall'Aquila: Pieces for Lute (2010)
  • Francesco da Milano: Il Divino (2013)
  • My Favorite Dowland (2014)
  • Un perfaict sonneur de leut Albert de Rippe (2019)

Selected Ensemble
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