Christopher Morrongiello, Lutenist December 17, 2010

Christopher Morrongiello is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music, the Royal College of Music, and the University of Oxford. In 1993 he was a prizewinner in the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year Competition and in 1996 he was awarded a Marco Fodella Foundation Scholarship for studies in Milan. He recently completed a doctoral thesis at Oxford about Elizabethan and Jacobean lute music. Christopher has toured and recorded with some of Europe's finest early music groups and performers. He is a member of the Venere Lute Quartet and directs the Bacheler Consort. He teaches lute in Long Island, New York.