Timothy Burris

Timothy Allen Burris is an American lutenist.

He studied under Toyohiko Satoh at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, graduating in 1988.^[1] From 1990 to 1996, Timothy Burris was lute instructor at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, Belgium.^[2]

His PhD thesis researches lute practice in 18th-century Dresden: Lute and Theorbo in Vocal Music in 18th-Century Dresden: A Performance Practice Study (Duke University, 1997).^[1]

Currently, he teaches lute at the Portland Conservatory of Music in Portland, Maine.^[1]

Recordings

• Bach meets Weiss (remastered 2007; originally recorded in 1990 as "Lute Music in Kursachsen, Circa 1730")
• Recording samples (Music's Quill at Early Music America)
• Ciaccona (2012, includes Mr Burris' transcription of Bach's Ciaccona from BWV 1004)
• The Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part I (with Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor, as the ensemble Music's Quill] (2007: Along with Part II, below, constitutes the first complete recording of Philip Rosseter's only book of lute songs)
• The Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part II (with Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor, as the ensemble Music's Quill] (2010: Along with Part I, above, constitutes the first complete recording of Philip Rosseter's only book of lute songs)
• Lagrime mie: Early songs of love and torment (PGM-103: with Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano)
• Divoti Affetti: Early Music at the Court at Dresden (PGM-106: with Tamara Matthews, soprano; Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; Jorg-Michael Schwarz & Karen Marmer, violins; Loretta O'Sullivn, cello; Timothy Burris, lute & theorbo; Eric Milnes, organ & harpsichord)
• The Buxtehude Project: Vol. I: Sacred Cantatas (PGM-102: The Sarum Consort; Chamber Choir of St. Peter's in the Great Valley; Martha N. Johnson, conductor, with Timothy Burris on theorbo)
• Dido and Aeneas (with soloists Wilke te Brummelstroete, Tom Sol, Paulien van der Werff, and Liduin Stumpel and Koorproject Rotterdam, under the direction of Maarten Michielsen)
• In Morte di Madonna Laura (with Vocaal Ensemble Pentacost, [sic] includes Mr Burris on theorbo continuo and lute solos by Pietro Paolo Melii and Santino Garsi da Parma)