The American lutenist Paul Beier graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, where he inherited a passion for research into early performance practices from his teacher, the renowned Dowland scholar Diana Poulton.

He has performed throughout Europe, Australia, North and South America with a solo repertoire extending from the early Sixteenth Century to the music of Bach and Sylvius Leopold Weiss. Founder and director of Galatea, he collaborates with many baroque music groups and has taken part in productions of early opera in theaters such as La Scala, Milan and the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico

Paul Beier has recorded for labels such as Opus 111, Stradivarius, Glossa, Cantus, Synfonia, Nuova Era, Tactus, Amadeus and Concerto. His CDs (11 solo lute recordings and 4 as director of Galatea) have been received very well; several of them have earned important recognition such as Disque du Mois of Rpertoire, 5 Diapason, 5 stars from Goldberg magazine (Spain).

In 1981 he was invited to create the lute program at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan, Italy, where he now lives and teaches lute, basso continuo and Renaissance ensemble. A founding member of the Italian Lute Society, he is a consulting editor of the Lute Society of America Journal.

For more information, visit his web site.

His music can be purchased on Magnatune.

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