Adam Wead, lute and theorbo

Adam Wead studied lute in Florence, Italy, and holds degrees from Peabody Conservatory and Indiana University. His teachers include Gian Luca Lastrioli, Mark Cudek and Nigel North. His solo appearances include the National Shrine to Music Museum in Vermilion, South Dakota, as well as the Bloomington and Boston Early Music Festivals. He has performed and lectured at the University of Edmonton, and with the CapRock Early Music Association in Lubbock, Texas. His performances have been broadcast nationally on NPR's syndicated show Harmonia and he has recorded for the Koch record label. Since 1999, he has performed for thousands of elementary and high school students throughout Kentucky under the sponsorship of New Performing Arts, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing arts education to rural counties in Kentucky.

He appears regularly with the ensemble Ostraka, in Atlanta, Georgia.