Balarin, Dušan

Dušan Balarin

Dušan Balarin is a soloist and accompanist specialized on a variety of historical lutes and

guitars. His eclectic curiosity has led him to perform with an array of leading artists and

ensembles in the fields of Early Music, Jazz and Contemporary Arts. Notably, he has

collaborated with figures like Cécile McLorin Salvant, Masaaki Suzuki, William Christie and Paul Agnew of Les Arts Florissants, the Emerson Quartet, Rachel Podger, Bruce Dickey, Lionel Meunier, Stephan MacLeod, Tessa Lark, and Reginald Mobley. Dušan regularly performs with foremost Early Music organizations such as The Washington Bach Consort, ARTEK, TENET, Chatham Baroque, Harmonia Stellarum and EMNY.

Dušan attended the Juilliard School as a graduate recipient of the Historical Performance Scholarship where he rigorously performed with Juilliard 415 in North America and Europe. Before settling in New York, he apprenticed with British lute virtuoso Nigel North and received his MM in Historical Performance with the highest of honors from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.