JORGE TORRES

LUTE, THEORBO, EARLY GUITARS

Guitarist and lutenist Jorge Torres performs on modern and historical guitars and other plucked string instruments.  He is Associate Professor of Music at Lafayette College where he teaches courses in music history and world music, and is the founder and director of the Marquis Consort, Lafayette College’s early music ensemble. Jorge earned his Ph.D. in Musicology at Cornell University with a dissertation on 17th-century French lute music. He has published articles on the interpretation of French lute music including “Performance Practice Technique for the French Baroque Lute: An Examination of Introductory Avertissements from Seventeenth-Century Sources,” and “Some Manifestations of French Lyricism in Seventeenth-Century pièces de luth Repertoire,” the latter work examining the influence of French versification on the composition of French melodies. Jorge’s work on lute music forms a part of a monograph in progress entitled “Rhetoric of the Gods: The Meanings of Musical Performance in 17th-Century Pièces de luth.”