Olav Chris Henriksen is one of America's leading lutenists. He has been acclaimed throughout Europe and North America as a soloist on lute, theorbo and early guitars with the Boston Camerata, Handel and Haydn Society, Mark Morris Dance Company, Baroque Orchestra, Les Idées Heureuses, and Chanticleer. His many performance credits include the Aston Magna Academy, Tanglewood, the Boston Early Music Festival, Soirées Musicales du Château de Versailles, summer seminars for the Lute Society of America, and a concert tour of his native Norway sponsored by the Norwegian government as part of the Rikskonsert program. Mr. Henriksen holds the soloist diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. He has recorded for Nonesuch, Erato, Simax, Telarc and Decca, and he teaches at the BostonConservatory and the University of Southern Maine. He has lectured at HarvardUniversity, Cambridge; Musikkhögskolen, Oslo; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; and Aston Magna Academy, Rutgers University.

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