This performance will feature music for the highly distinctive 10‑course late Renaissance lute, including music from British manuscript sources by composer Anthony Holborne, and late Renaissance music from Italy (Diomedes Cato), Germany (Elias Mertel, Matthaeus Reymann), and the Netherlands (Nicholas Vallet). Dr John Robison is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Early Music Ensemble at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He received his doctorate in musicology and performance practice from Stanford University in 1975. The author of A Festschrift for Gamal Abdel-Rahim (Binational Fulbright Commission, 1993), Johann Klemm: Partitura seu tabulatura italica (A-R editions, 1998), and Korean Women Composers and Their Music (College Music Society, 2012), his research interests include Renaissance lute music, German Renaissance composers, the development of the fugue, performance practices, and contemporary composers from diverse African, Asian and Latin American cultures.A versatile musician who performs professionally on plucked string, bowed string, and woodwind instruments, he has done numerous solo Renaissance lute recitals over the past 40 years, and also performs regularly on the viola da gamba, Renaissance/Baroque recorders, Renaissance double reeds (krummhorn, rauschpfeife, shawm, racket, curtal), Baroque oboe, and modern oboe/English horn. His articles on Renaissance, Baroque, and 20th-century topics have appeared in various American, European and Asian journals, and his presentations as a scholar and a performer have taken him to many parts of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. He created the world music survey course at the University of South Florida in the early 1990s, and now teaches a course on intercultural composers of the 20th/21st centuries. He is currently completing a scholarly edition of the works of Jacob Meiland (1542-1577) for the American Institute of Musicology, and preparing a book on Indian composer John Mayer (1930-2004) that will be completed in 2013.