Esteban La Rotta
Course Instructor (Coach, Early Music Ensembles)
Esteban La Rotta聽is one of Canada鈥檚 leading lutenists. In demand as both a soloist and continuo player, he studied at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano with Paul Beier, and in Montreal with Sylvain Bergeron where he received his doctorate in performance degree in 2008 concentrating on the baroque guitar.聽 His interest聽in聽the origins of the lute as a polyphonic instrument brought him to pursue a specialization on the solo repertoire for lute in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under the guidance of Crawford Young, and Hopkinson Smith.聽
As a specialist in a variety of early plucked instruments, La Rotta has extensive experience with the early renaissance repertoire as well as with 聽Baroque Italian and French repertoire for solo theorbo. He is a regular participant at Festival Montr茅al Baroque and has collaborates聽regularly with ensembles such as the Copenhagen Soloists, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Les Violons du Roy, Les Voix Humaines, Les id茅es Heureuses, the SMAM, Ensemble Caprice, and Pallade Musica.
He has appeared in numerous festivals including Musique Royale, Boston Early Music Festival, Seattle Early Music Guild, Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg), Lam猫que Early Music Festival, Stratford Festival, the National Arts Center in Ottawa, and the Orford Music Festival. His performances have been broadcast on the CBC in Canada and the BBC in England. He can be heard on the Atma label, both as a soloist and with Pallade Musica, and on the Passacaille and Recercare labels.
Luteniste Esteban La Rotta se sp茅cialise dans une vari茅t茅 d'instruments 脿 cordes pinc茅es, avec une vaste exp茅rience en tant que continuiste et soliste.
Son int茅r锚t pour les origines du luth en tant qu'instrument polyphonique l'a amen茅 脿 poursuivre une sp茅cialisation sur le r茅pertoire solo pour le luth 脿 la fin du Moyen 脗ge et au d茅but de la Renaissance 脿 la Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Cofondateur de l'ensemble canadien Pallade Musica, et souvent avec d'autres ensembles renomm茅s, il se produit dans divers festivals de musique anciens dans les Am茅riques et en Europe.
Ses performances ont 茅t茅 diffus茅es sur CBC au Canada et la BBC en Angleterre. Il peut 锚tre entendu sur les 茅tiquettes Atma, Recercare et Pasacaille.
