Peter Schimpf is a Professor of Music at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he teaches courses in music history, world music, music appreciation, the history of Rock and Roll, and The Beatles. He is also founder and director of the music program’s Early Music Ensemble and regularly performs on lute, theorbo, and Baroque guitar, appearing with groups across the Front Range, including the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, the Colorado Chamber Players, the Colorado Music Festival, Kantorei, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir, and Seicento Baroque Ensemble. He is also a regular member of the California-based Baroque orchestra Sinfonia Spirituosa. Peter earned a Ph.D. and MA from Indiana University in musicology and has a BM in performance from California State University, Sacramento where he studied both classical guitar and lute.  As a musicologist, he has published articles on the music and career of composer Henry Cowell, and he has presented papers on a variety of topics at international, national, and regional conferences of the College Music Society, the Society for American Music, and the American Musicological Society.