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.