John Griffiths (musician)

John Griffiths AM FAHA (born 2 December 1952, Melbourne) is a musician and musicologist specialised in music for guitar and early plucked instruments, especially the vihuela and lute.

He has also had an international career as a solo lutenist, vihuelist, and guitarist, and as a member of the pioneer Australian early music group La Romanesca.

This press continues to publish monuments of Australian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as works by obscure European composers of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods.

As a performer, Griffiths has appeared around the world as a soloist and as a member of the ensemble La Romanesca that he founded in 1978 with Hartley Newnham, Ros Bandt and Ruth Wilkinson.

He has contributed articles on the vihuela and many related areas to the major reference works The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and the Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana.