Matthew Weinman, residing in New Jersey, graduated from the Mannes College of Music in Historical Performance and earned his master’s in music from Columbia University.  He has published The Renaissance Fake Book, The Continuo Players Book of Grounds, Popular Elizabethan Lute Music, among other works for Turtels & Twins Press, for which he is editor and proprietor.  He is also a composer for the lute, who demonstrates vast knowledge of 16th-century compositional forms as a stimulus to invention, works published by the Lute Society of England, The Lute Society of America & Turtels & Twins Press.

Mr. Weinman studied Renaissance Lute, Baroque Lute & Theorbo with Pat O'Brien & Paul O'Dette. Music Theory & Composition Studies with, Dan Cataneo, Maria Rojas, David Loeb & Robert Cuckson. Matthew Weinman is a core member of The Bacheler Consort and has been performing, teaching and composing for 28 Years.