Ian Harwood

Ian Harwood (29 August 1931 – 28 July 2011) was a lutenist, musical instrument maker and teacher.

Early life Harwood was born in Petersfield, Hampshire and attended The Pilgrims' School while a chorister at Winchester Cathedral. and then became an alto lay clerk in the Choir of New College, Oxford where he began a career playing and making lutes near Oxford.

In 1960 he took up a position as a lay clerk at Ely Cathedral, where he built lutes for ten years.

Harwood was elected president of the Lute Society in 1999 and appointed MBE in 2008.

Publications Harwood, Ian, "The Origins of the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts", Lute Society Journal vol. 5 pp. 32–48 (1963). Harwood, Ian, "The Origins of the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts: A Postscript", Lute Society Journal vol. 6 p. 29 (1964).

Harwood, Ian, "A Lecture in Musick, with the Practice thereof by Instrument in the Common Schooles, Mathew Holmes and Music at Oxford University c.1588-1627", Lute Society Journal vol. 45 pp. 1–70 (2005) Harwood, Ian, John H. Robinson and Stewart McCoy (eds), The Mathew Holmes Manuscripts I: Cambridge University Library MS Dd.2.11 (Albury: Lute Society, 2010).