Douglas Freundlich
Douglas Freundlich launched his lute career in the 1970s with The Greenwood Consort, winning the Erwin Bodky Award and Musical America’s "Young Artist of the Year". He has performed with many leading ensembles over the years, including the Boston Symphony, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, The Musicians of Swanne Alley, Renaissonics, Foggy Mountain Consort and the Revels.
Doug is a founding member of the Venere Lute Quartet, garnering praise from Amadeus (Milan), Early Music America, and Goldberg critics. His arrangements for the quartet are featured on Venere’s recordings, Sweet Division, Palestrina's Lute, Airy Entertainments, and Ornythology.
Doug has taught lute at the Longy School of Music since 1979. He directed the Early Music program in the 1980s, serving as Department Chair in 2007, and mentoring students in the acclaimed Teaching Artist Program. Other teaching includes Lute Society of America Seminars, Amherst Early Music, Boston Early Music Festival Outreach, and the Harvard University Core program, where Doug has twice received the Derek Bok Teaching Award. Doug wrote his doctoral dissertation at Harvard on the process of musical improvisation, and for many years taught a popular course on music cognition at Tufts. He served as Associate Keeper of Harvard's Isham Library, a repository of musical sources. On the side, Doug “cross-trains” as a violone player and jazz bassist.
Doug's discography includes recordings for TelArc, Titanic, Sine Qua Non, Revels, Radian Arts, Foggy Mountain and LSA labels.
Doug is a founding member of the Venere Lute Quartet, garnering praise from Amadeus (Milan), Early Music America, and Goldberg critics. His arrangements for the quartet are featured on Venere’s recordings, Sweet Division, Palestrina's Lute, Airy Entertainments, and Ornythology.
Doug has taught lute at the Longy School of Music since 1979. He directed the Early Music program in the 1980s, serving as Department Chair in 2007, and mentoring students in the acclaimed Teaching Artist Program. Other teaching includes Lute Society of America Seminars, Amherst Early Music, Boston Early Music Festival Outreach, and the Harvard University Core program, where Doug has twice received the Derek Bok Teaching Award. Doug wrote his doctoral dissertation at Harvard on the process of musical improvisation, and for many years taught a popular course on music cognition at Tufts. He served as Associate Keeper of Harvard's Isham Library, a repository of musical sources. On the side, Doug “cross-trains” as a violone player and jazz bassist.
Doug's discography includes recordings for TelArc, Titanic, Sine Qua Non, Revels, Radian Arts, Foggy Mountain and LSA labels.