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Nigel North (born 5 June 1954) is an English lutenist and guitarist.
Student days He studied guitar on a scholarship to the junior deptartment
of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1964-70), taking up the lute in
1969, at the age of 15. He maintains he was more or less self-taught on the
instrument. He went on to study at the Royal College of Music from 1971 to
1974: classical guitar with John Williams and Carlos Bonnel, viola da gamba
with Francis Baines; lute (one term) with Diana Poulton, qualifying in 1974
with an A.R.C.M. diploma in lute performance. He completed his studies on
the postgraduate course in Early Music at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama 1975-1975 and with one month's study with baroque lutenist Michael
Schäffer in 1976.
Teaching Overlapping his student years, in 1975 he was appointed Professor
of Lute at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama, a position he held
until 1996. From 1993 to 19
