Nicholas Pollock, lute

Nicholas Pollock is an Australian multi-instrumentalist specialising in early plucked strings. Starting out on electric guitar, he then progressed to the renaissance lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, baroque lute, archlute, cittern and most recently the gallichon. Nicholas commenced his early instrument studies with Andrew Byrne (Sydney) and has performed in masterclasses with leading international plucked-string specialists such as Hopkinson Smith, Nigel North, Eduardo Egüez and Xavier Diaz-Lattore. A dynamic and versatile performer, Nicholas is equally at home playing guitar in a punk band as performing the intimate lute works of John Dowland on the concert stage. He has a particular interest in the lute and theorbo music of seventeenth-century France.

Nicholas maintains a busy freelance career as a continuo player and regularly performs in Australia and abroad with leading Australian ensembles including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian Haydn Ensemble, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He is a recording artist for Decca Classics and ABC Classics.