Edward Martin    Fri, 07 Jan 2000 22:00:32 -0600
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I am a 50 year old male, residing in Duluth, Minnesota - the frozen 
climate.  I am married, 2 teenage daughters, and I have 2 professions:

1.  Registered nurse, doing skilled home care.  This is to support my family.

2.  Professional lutenist , teaching at the College of St. Scholastica, and 
performing solo lute, lute songs, I am a member of MiLQ [Minnesota Lute 
Quartet], and do other ensemble work.  I have played lute for about 22 
years [began with guitar at age 6],  and I do it all, with the exception of 
theorbo.  The lute is certainly more rewarding than health care.  I have a 
few renaissance lutes, archlute, vihuela, baroque guitar, 11 course, & 13 
course lutes.  My favorite repertoire is the German baroque, especially 
Weiss & Bach.  The challenges are immense in this era, but the rewards are 
extraordinary.  With a relatively newly obtained 11 course, I am more 
exploring the French & Bohemian baroque repertoire.

I have had performances broadcast on American Public Radio, have recorded, 
toured,  performed in competitions, & taught master classes as well.

I absolutely love the beautiful music of the lute, and find it rewarding to 
continue to learn & develop musicality, and especially find it fulfilling 
to share and learn insight and knowledge with others on subject of the lute.

A special area of interest of mine is strings.... how the use of different 
materials changes the concept of performance.

Ed Martin

PS - on the light side, " I keep gettin' richer, but can't get my picture 
on the cover of the Rolling Stone".