JOHN LENTI (theorbo) has performed on lute and theorbo throughout the United States and abroad, at early music festivals in Indianapolis, Bloomington (IN) and Boston, at the Festival Guldener-Herbst in Sondershausen, Germany, and at the Magnolia Baroque Festival in North Carolina. John is assistant director and regularly plays continuo for the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and has performed with the Seattle Opera and the Pittsburgh Opera (with Chatham Baroque). He performs with Ensemble Amarelli, Stolen Bread and La Monica, and is a founding member of the ensembles Plaine & Easie and the I-90 Collective. A native of South Carolina, John studied guitar at the North Carolina School of the Arts before going to London to study lute with Jacob Heringman and Elizabeth Kenny. He returned to the United States to study with Nigel North at Indiana University. His playing has been cited as "a joy to behold" (Seattle Times) and praised for its "nuanced beauty and character" (Gramophone). His recording credits include And I remain..., an album of lute songs and lute solos with soprano Linda Tsatsanis, The Courtesan's Arts with soprano Ellen Hargis for Oxford University Press, and The Amorous Lyre with La Monica.