cd - Mike Fentross
Mike Fentross is a Dutch string player known for his performances on the lute, theorbo, vihuela, and Baroque guitar. He is the director of his own ensemble, La Sfera Armoniosa, and an educator in the Netherlands. Fentross studied under Toyohiko Satoh at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in the late 1980s and continued his studies with Nigel North and José Miguel Moreno. He apprenticed as a continuo player with Les Arts Florissants and other European Baroque groups in the 1990s. In 1994, he won the Van Wassenaer Competition in Amsterdam and by the late 1990s had become a recognized early music specialist, appearing on albums with leading artists both within and beyond the early music sphere, including Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Lucy van Dael, and conductor Jaap van Zweden. Fentross founded his own ensemble, La Sfera Armoniosa ("The Harmonious Sphere"), in 1991; the group remained active into the late 2010s. The products available from the artist Mike Fentross include CDs.
