Terrell Stone

Terrell Stone is an American lutenist and recording artist. He is a longtime resident of Italy, where he currently holds the position of a Professor of lute.

He began his musical studies in the United States,dedicating himself to the study of the lute since 1974. Beginning in 1978 he studied at the "Schola Cantorum Basiliensis" in
Basel, Switzerland under Eugene Dombois and Hopkinson Smithand in Paris, France under Frank Eyler.

He completed his lute studies at the Italian State Conservatory "F. E.Dall'Abaco" in Verona under the guidance of OrlandoCristoforetti.

For many years he has performed as a soloist andhas participated in important music festivals in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. He is also veryactive as a chamber musician, performing basso continuo on the lute,
archlute and theorbo.

Stone has recorded for television, radio and recording companiesand has over thirty recordings to his credit. His solo recordingsinclude a compact disc of the solo music of Giuseppe Brescianellofor gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater ofthe "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).

During his over 25 years of residency in Italy, Stone has taught lute at the Conservatory "Santa Cecilia" in Rome, at theConservatory “N. Piccini” in Bari and is presently Professorof lute and President of the Early Music Department at theConservatory “A. Pedrollo” in Vicenza.

In addition to his performing recording and teaching activities, Stonehas edited several modern editions of music for lute and hasconducted research and has written scholarly articles concerningSilvius Leopold Weiss. He has given seminars and master classes in the United States, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Mexico, and participated in the development of the MacOS9 computer program 'Tastar de Corde', used for writing lute tablature and transcribing it to modern notation.

References

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041015181750/www.terrellstone.info/curric.htm Personal website, Curriculum page] – From an October 2004 Internet Archive copy of http://www.terrellstone.info
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041015180147/www.terrellstone.info/cdlist.htm Discography] - From the October 2004 Internet Archive copy

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:55057~T3 Terrell Stone credited works] as described by "Allmusic".
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=43:82772 Silvius Leopold Weiss: Sei "Parthie" di Versavia] – Classical recording performed by Terrell Stone, listed by "Allmusic".
* [http://www.lafolia.com/archive/tangosandel/tangosandel200507weiss.html Silvius Leopold Weiss: Sei "Parthie" di Versavia] – Review of the box set CD collection at [http://www.lafolia.com "La Folia"]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041015181750/www.terrellstone.info/ Personal website] – From an October 2004 Internet Archive copy of www.terrellstone.info