Edin Karamazov

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Edin Karamazov is a Bosnian musician-lutenist (born in 1965 in Zenica, Bosnia). He studied lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, eventually becoming one of the most sought after ensemble lutenists. He worked with Hesperion, L'Arpeggiata, Andreas Scholl, inter alia. He achieved fame for the archlute recording of Benjamin Britten's "Nocturnal" and J.S.Bach's Partita in d-minor.

Recent collaborations with Sting (in the field of 16th century music) resulted in the album "Songs from the Labyrinth", devoted to the lute-songs of John Dowland. He and Sting appeared on two episodes of the TV show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip[1], performing two-lute versions of Dowland's Come Again and Sting's Fields of Gold.