Douglas Freundlich (alto lute), 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 the Boston Symphony, Boston Baroque, Swanne Alley, Emmanuel Music, Renaissonics, and others. He teaches lute at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, where he directed the Early Music Program in the 1980s. Doug has commissioned and performed many new works for the lute. He also cross-trains as a bebop bassist, catalogs music manuscripts at Harvard's Isham Library, and teaches a popular course on music cognition at Tufts. He has recorded for the Telarc, Titanic, Revels, and Sine Qua Non labels.