Lee Santana
Lee Santana (* 1959 in Florida ) is an American lutenist and composer . He has lived and worked in Germany since 1984.
Life
education
After playing rock and jazz guitar as a child and teenager, Lee Santana devoted himself to classical guitar as a student. He was increasingly fascinated by ancient music and historical instruments, especially the lute. During his studies at Emerson College (Longy School of Music) in Boston, Massachusetts, he therefore concentrated on historical performance practice and early music . He studied lute playing with Patrick O'Brien and Stephen Stubbs , and composition with Richard Cornell .
Artistic work
In 1984 he came to Germany, where he has lived as a freelance lutenist and composer ever since. Lee Santana gives concerts with the ensemble The Harp Consort , the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , with the recorder player Maurice Steger and with his wife, the viol player Hille Perl , as a duo or in the formation Los Otros .
Publications
In 2001 a CD with compositions for lute and viol by Lee Santana was released under the title "The Star and the Sea" on the Carpe Diem Records label . In 2008 another CD followed on the same label, "Cradle of Conceits", with music for lute, cister and bandora by Anthony Holborne . In 2010 Sony released the CD Philippo Martino, Lautentrios and in 2011 the solo CD Pentagram, with works by Lee Santana, Joh. Seb. Bach and Nicholas Vallet. With the soprano Dorothee Mields and the viol player Hille Perl, the CD 'In darkness let mee dwell' with works by John Dowland was released in 2009 and the CD 'Loves Alchymie' in 2010, for which the trio received the Echo Klassik Prize . In November 2011 the CD 'Verleih uns Frieden gnädlichen' was released with the ensemble SIRIUS VIOLS and the soprano Anna Maria Friman.
Others
Lee Santana, actually left-handed , plays the lute like a right-handed person .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Santana, Lee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Santana-Perl, Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lutenist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florida |