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"Date sent: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 02:36:17 +0200 (EET)
Hi dear lutenetters
I decided not to join this subject, but here I am... ;-)
Music is not a hobby to me; it is much more, actually it is much
more
important to me than computer science. But mostly university
gives me
my living. I do some lute gigs every now and then. And music
generally
- not only lute music or early music - is in the center of my living.
I started classical guitar about 1973. And in 1982 (or 3?) was the
year I count my lute playing started - I cut my guitar nails. The
reason was same as many have had: the lute repertoire was so
much more
interesting than guitar has.
My lute teacher was Leif Karlson, who was a co-student of Konrad
Junghanel in the lute class of Michael Shaeffer in Cologne. Leif was
a
very good and knowledgeable teacher!
Then in 80's and 90's I've taken part to several early music courses:
Trondheim (2 times, Jakob Lindberg), Urbino (2 times, Yasunori
Imamura, Andrea Damiani), Innsbruck (Nigel North), Sardegna (Yasunori
Imamura), Bremen (2 times, Stephen Stubbs, Paul O'Dette), Nordmaling
(Nordic Baroque Music Festival, 3 times, Jakob Lindberg), ...
I started my lute playing with the 16th century music. Then continuo
became important - the start was really hard, but really worth of it.
As a matter of fact my "career" in the lute list started by writing a
small continuo school to the list (1994?). That "school" can still be
found in my music pages (see below).
Nowadays nearest to my heart is accompanying a good singer singing
early Italian baroque monody. And Monteverdi is clearly my "home God",
the "best composer". (I know, in reality there is no such thing... :)
I like to play 16th century composers Spinaccino, da Milano, ...,
there are so many of them, ..., the songs of Dowland are gems, ...
17th century: Kapsperger, Piccinini(s), Castaldi, de Visee, ...,
and then of course those great vocal composers: Monteverdi, Caccini,
d'India, ...
I have a 6 course lute, a 10 course lute, an archlute, and a theorbo
by Stephen Barber; a chitarrino by Eero Palviainen, and a 7 course
soprano lute by Timo Kontio. Photographs of those instruments can be
found in my music pages (see below).
I am not singing in public, but while numbering a bass line, you have
to sing to yourself. Anyhow something, which I am very proud of,
happened 2 years ago in Nordmaling, in Nordic Baroque Festival:
I was accompanying a soprano singing a Verdelot madrigal setting by
Adrian Willaert. There was a strange pause in the soprano line. We had
also the Verdelot version, where we could find, what was happening
there: the lower voices were answering to the top line: "et i noi
pastori", "and we shepherds". We decided the I'll sing that text! Then
we went to Emma Kirkby's lesson, and I sang my 4 words. After our
performance Emma told me that I have a beautiful voice! You can guess
how jealous the proper singers were... ;-) And how proud I was! :)
My early music pages are rather popular. You can find them in
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wikla/music.html
All the best
Arto
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Arto.Wikla@cs.helsinki.fi
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From: Arto Wikla
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: who are lutenetters?
I am 46 years old (huh! how middle aged...:), divorced 10 yeas
ago. I
work at the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Helsinki, Finland, as an assistant professor (lecturer, senior
lecturer, ... these names differ from country to country). I've been
teaching programming several years, and actually I do like teaching
university students, even if I am not especially interested in
computers... Working in a company wouldn't be my way?
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wikla/"