As my love and respect for the lute deepened over the years, I felt more and more strongly that the lute is an instrument capable of communicating in a variety of musical languages. Its natural ability to express emotional nuance, and its tremendous palette of tone colors make it an ideal vehicle for expressing music of our own time.
In past centuries, the lute player and the composer of lute music were one and the same person. There was no gulf between the performer and composer as we often have in classical music today.
In recent years, I have written a number of original compositions for the lute, drawing from the centuries-old tradition of the lutenist-composer. Like lute music of the Renaissance, many of these new pieces tread the borderline between popular, folk and classical music
Some of the new pieces draw heavily from Renaissance and Baroque styles, while others are written in a completely modern musical language.