Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (died 1626)
John Dowland, English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist (died 1626)
Bernhard Joachim Hagen (April 1720 in or near Hamburg (?) – December 9, 1787 in Ansbach) was a German composer, violinist and lutenist.
Fabrizio was the son of Luigi Dentice (ca. 1510–1566) who served the powerful Sanseverino family and had a great reputation as a singer and lutenist.
Vincenzo Galilei (1520–1591), composer, lutenist, and music theorist; father of Galileo
:For the lutenist, see Jacques Gaultier.
He studied twentieth-century composers and compositional techniques with Ivan Tcherepnin, the works of Bach and Handel with Christoph Wolff, Dowland and the English lutenists with John Ward, and the music of medieval Aquitaine with David Hughes.
It was published by John Windet in London in 1604 when Dowland was employed as lutenist to Christian IV of Denmark.
Martha Elizabeth Blackman (born 1 January 1927, Dallas) is an American viola da gamba player and lutenist, and the first American to perform on and teach the viol.
Mauricio Buraglia (born in 1954 in Bogotà) is a Colombian composer, recording-artist, musician-lutenist and theorbist of Italian descent, active in Paris, France.
Hans Neusidler (circa 1508/9 – 1563), Hungarian-German composer and lutenist
Artists who have performed at the festival include the British lutenist Anthony Rooley, the soprano Evelyn Tubb, the Swiss musician Nik Bärtsch with his group Ronin, and the early music ensemble Mediva.
Claudio Saracini (1586–1630), Italian composer, lutenist and singer