Jakob Lindberg (b. 1952, Sweden) is one of the leading contemporary interpreters of Renaissance and Baroque lute music. Professor of lute at the Royal College of Music in London since 1979, Lindberg has developed a rich concert career since the 1980s, performing worldwide both as a soloist and as a continuo player in early music ensembles.
In concert at the Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi (Lucca), he will perform a selection of Archlute Sonatas by Giovanni Zamboni. Before the concert, a brief introduction will be given to Marescandoli, a publisher of Zamboni's music.
Akob Lindberg was born in Djursholm, Sweden, on October 16, 1952. He studied guitar and lute with Jörgen Rörby at Stockholm University and subsequently at the Royal College of Music in London, where he furthered his studies with Diana Poulton and Carlos Bonell. He made his solo debut in 1978 at the Lindberg Wigmore Hall. Since the 1980s, he has embarked on a rich concert career, performing worldwide, both as a soloist and as a continuo player in early music ensembles. Since 1979, he has also taught lute at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1985, he founded the Dowland Consort, an early music chamber group specializing in the performance of music from the Elizabethan period, particularly that of John Dowland and Sylvius Leopold Weiss. Throughout his career, he has accompanied many famous singers, such as Nigel Rogers, Ian Partridge, Emma Kirkby and Anne Sofie von Otter. On 3 July 2013, he held a concert dedicated to Dowland's music at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the English composer's birth.
