David Dolata

The Bulletin de la Société Française de Luth has referred to Florida International University Professor of Musicology David Dolata as a “gentleman de la Renaissance” for his activities as a performer and scholar. A native of Buffalo, New York and long-time resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Dolata coordinates the Music History area and is former Director of the FIU School of Music. As a lutenist, he has appeared at such venues as the Glimmerglass Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Northwest Bach Festival, the Miami Bach Society, and on broadcasts and recordings for NPR, CBS, and BBC. With Il Furioso, which he co-directs with Victor Coelho, he has recorded Kapsberger’s 1623 Book of Arias, Battaglia d’amore: the Music of Bellerofonte Castaldi, and George Frideric Handel: the ‘Amen, Alleluia’ Arias on the English label Toccata Classics. He also appears on several other American and European recordings.

His research on early 17th-century Italian lute music has been published in Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, Early Music,Acta Musicologica, and Grove Music Online. He has been visiting research professor at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) at the Université François-Rabelais de Tours – CNRS where he continues to serve as a research associate and co-editor of the CESR Encyclopedia of Tablature with John Griffiths and Philippe Vendrix. David Dolata also maintains a long-standing affiliation with Boston University’s Center for Early Music Studies. His book, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols, was published by Indiana University Press in 2016.