USF professor John Robison and guest soprano Maggie Coleman present an abso-LUTE-ly amazing 

program of solo music for lute, theorbo, and archlute, along with English Renaissance and Italian 

Baroque songs. The program includes solo music for 10-course Renaissance lute by English 

composers, van Wilder, Mertel, Adriaenssen, and Vallet, solo theorbo music by Piccinini, and archlute 

pieces by Melii and Zamboni. All genres of early instrumental music will be represented on the 

program, including preludes, dance music, variations, and fantasias. The vocal portion of the concert 

will include Elizabethan lute songs by Campion and Dowland, plus Italian Baroque songs by Caccini 

and Cesti with the continuo parts performed on the theorbo or archlute.