Lucas Harris is pleased to have moved the base for his freelance lute activities to Toronto early in 2004. After completing a liberal arts degree at Pomona College, he received his early music training first at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano as one of the first scholars of the Marco Fodella Foundation, then at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Since returning to North America in 1998, Lucas has quickly become one of the foremost continuo lutenists in the U.S. and Canada: he has joined in concerts and recordings with ensembles such as The Harp Consort, Apollo's Fire, New York Collegium, Tafelmusik, Trinity Consort, Seattle Baroque and the Smithsonian Chamber Players. Lucas's passion for baroque opera has animated productions by the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Juilliard Opera Center, the Boston & Utrecht Early Music Festivals, Monadnock Music, the Toronto Consort, and Opera Atelier. He recently directed an evening of Italian opera scenes for Zeffiro Productions (in collaboration with stage director/violinist Julie Andrijesky). Lucas is on faculty at Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute since 2002, and has also taught for the New York Continuo Collective and the Amherst Early Music Festival / Lute Society of America Summer Seminar. He has also given solo recitals on the New York Early Music Series and at the Festival Lamèque. His work with Les voix humaines was recently praised in Montréal: "La révélation du concert est le luthiste torontois Lucas Harris, qui tisse un fil poétique à travers ses interventions infiniment subtiles. La douceur et la patience de son jeu émerveillent." (Le Devoir)