 Lyle Nordstrom is professor of music history and director of early music at
the University of North Texas. Before coming to UNT in fall 2000, he was music
department head at Clayton College and State University in Morrow, GA, and
head of the early music program. He also taught lute at the Indiana University
Early Music Institute and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He recently was
honored by Early Music America with the Thomas Binkley award for outstanding
achievements in early music ensembles at the collegiate level.
Nordstrom's performances also have received international attention. He is
founder and co-director of "The Musicians of Swanne Alley," the well-known
Elizabethan music ensemble with whom he has recorded on the Virgin Classics,
Harmonia Mundi and Focus labels. With that ensemble and others he has performed
several times at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Early Music
Festival, the Bath Festival, several times on "St. Paul Sunday",
as well as German, Danish, French and English radio and television. His arrangements
of music for Swanne Alley were used in the MGM movie Rob Roy. Nordstrom
also is founder and artistic director of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra that
performs throughout the Southeast.
In addition to his performances and recordings, he has published several articles
on lute-related subjects, and written a book on the 16th-century wire-strung
bandora. He is editor of the Lute Society of America Scholarly Editions project.
He is past president of the Atlanta Early Music Alliance.
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