Yair Avidor

Yair Avidor plays renaissance and baroque lute, historic guitars and the theorbo (chitarrone). He enjoys giving solo recitals, playing chamber music and accompanying singers.

Yair studied at the Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen with Stephen Stubbs; was a Fodella Scholarship holder at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan studying with Paul Beier; and completed his Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, studying with Bill Carter and David Miller.

He has a special interest in 17th century English, French and German lute music, and in the solo repertoire of the theorbo, which he aims to grow by writing new transcriptions for the instrument.

In recent years he has also been exploring playing gut-strung historic guitars of the early and late 19th century (Lacote and Torres schools).