Cellist and musicologist John Lutterman has given solo performances in Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Basel, Belfast, New York, Washington, Sacramento and San Francisco. He is principal cellist of the Capella Sacra, Salzburg, and has performed with the American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque, Magnificat, Jubilate and the Archangelli Strings. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In March 2006, John completed the Ph. D. in historical musicology at the University of California at Davis, with a dissertation on Bach’s cello suites as artifacts of historical improvisatory practices. His articles have appeared in Early Music America, Strings, and San Francisco Classical Voice. John recently served as Professor of Cello and Music History at Whitman College, and has served on the faculty of Lawrence University, the Wisconsin Conservatory, the Knox School, the University of the Pacific, and SUNY Stony Brook. His teaching and research interests include the history of theory, the ethno-historiographic study of the relation between written and oral/aural musical practices, the aesthetics of absolute music, the history of improvisation, and the historical development of the modern concept of a musical “work.”