Bio of arrangers > STRIZICH, Robert Robert Strizich, guitarist and lutenist, has concertized extensively in North America and Europe. As a soloist, he has performed in recitals, festivals and radio broadcasts on both continents. As an accompanist, he has collaborated with such notable singers as Julianne Baird, Max van Egmond, Judith Nelson, Andrea von Ramm, Nigel Rogers and Randall Wong. As an ensemble player, he has performed with many well-known early music groups. He has also performed as both a soloist and ensemble player at numerous festivals in the United States and Europe. His recorded solo and ensemble performances can be heard on EMI, Intrada, Musical Heritage Society, MusicMasters, Titanic, and 1750 Arch Records. In the field of early music performance practice, Mr. Strizich is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the baroque guitar. He is particularly known both for his scholarly research on baroque guitarists and for his seminal edition of the complete guitar works of Robert de Visée (published by Heugel, Paris). His new edition of the complete guitar works of Spanish baroque guitarist-composer Gaspar Sanz has recently been published by Editions Doberman (Québec, Canada). Mr. Strizich is also a noted composer, and his music has been performed in the United States, Europe, and South America. He has composed a variety of works for instrumental, vocal and electro-acoustic media, many of which are published by Fallen Leaf Press (Berkeley) and recorded on the Musical Heritage Society and Wildboar labels. His endeavors in the fields of performance, composition and scholarship have been recognized by grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Wellesley College, and the Universities of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley. A former lute and baroque guitar student of Thomas Binkley and Eugen Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, Mr. Strizich also holds both B.A. and M.A. degrees in music from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego. He has taught performance, composition, music history and music theory at Wellesley College, Trinity College (Hartford), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco State University and the University of California at Santa Cruz.