Phil Rukavina      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:09:11 EST
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Hi All,

Okay, my turn (sorry it's a bio)...

Phillip Rukavina studied lute with Patrick O'Brien at the Sarah Lawrence

College, New York and with Hopkinson Smith at the Academie Musicale in 
Villecroze, France and in Basel, Switzerland, the latter through a grant from 
the Jerome Foundation (1998). With the ensemble Minstrelsy!, he appears on 
three critically acclaimed compact discs issued on Lyrichord Disc's Early 
Music Series label. A frequent soloist and ensemble player, Phillip has 
performed numerous times with Ex Machina Baroque Opera Company, the Lyra

Concert Baroque Orchestra, the Rose Ensemble for Early Music, the St. Paul 
Chamber Orchestra and many others. He supplied the solo lute music for the 
audiotape release of The Last Unicorn, read by the author Peter Beagle. Mr. 
Rukavina is currently the Director of the St. Paul Early Music Series, which 
is sponsored by The Schubert Club of St. Paul.  He has served on the Board of 
the Lute Society of America and was the general editor of the LSA's Quarterly 
magazine from 1992 until 1995.

To see stuff on the St. Paul Early Music Series go to...

http://members.aol.com/spemsmn

Happy New Year All!

Phil Rukavina