Richard Stone (lutenist)

He attended the Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York at Purchase to study guitar with David Starobin and lute with Patrick O’Brien, while being mentored by pianist Seymour Bernstein.

In 1984 he was awarded a Fulbright Lusk Memorial Fellowship to begin theorbo and pursue further lute studies with Nigel North at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, in which city he began his early professional career.

[5] As educator, Stone serves on the Conservatory faculty at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland as Professor of Lute and Theorbo, a post he has held since 2007.

He was guest lecturer at the 2009 forum Perspectivas: Simposio sobre renacimiento y barroco at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, on approaches to reconstructing music that survives in fragmentary condition.

Recording and broadcast credits include Deutsche Grammophon, Chandos, Lyrichord, PGM, Musical Heritage, Polygram, Vienna Modern Masters, ATMA, Eklecta, Centaur, Bis, Chesky, NPR, Czech Radio 3-Vltava and the BBC.