Next Performance: Lunchtime Concert at the Lit & Phil Historic Library in Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1st August 2025 - limited free tickets remaining! https://www.litandphil.org.uk/event/lunchtime-concert-renaissance-lute-dr-sara-salloum/
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It was a complete pleasure and privilege to be a part of Singing with Nightingales ' Shakespeare Special on the 18th April . I can still hardly believe I really did duet with a nightingale! That's one performance I won't ever forget. Thank you also to Sam Lee and Debs Newbold for your kindness and artistry. See my Artist Profile here .
Hello and welcome to my website! I am a professional performing musician of Renaissance plucked string instruments, and a music scholar interested in female musicians principally from the early modern period. My AHRC-funded doctoral work (completed Oct 2024) investigated the lute performance practices of gentry women in early seventeenth-century England. It did so through the analysis of material culture from the period (visual art, clothing, literature), manuscripts of lute tablature, which I read fluently, and, at the core of my project, a practice-based methodology through which I utilised and developed my own performance practice. This culminated in several innovative and varied creative performance outputs which ranged from videos of myself performing the lute in accurately reconstructed period clothing and an album of lute music sourced from the female-owned early seventeenth-century manuscript known as the ‘Margaret Board lute book’, to an original electroacoustic ‘sound-work’...
One-to-one lessons
I am currently offering one-to-one lute and classical guitar lessons at my home in Jesmond, Newcastle. Please get in touch with me at saralibersalloum@gmail.com if you are interested.