David Dolata | Professor of Musicology | Area Coordinator of Music History Studies
The Bulletin de la Société Française de Luth has referred to Florida International University Professor of Musicology David Dolata as a “gentleman de la Renaissance” for his activities as a performer and scholar. A native of Buffalo, New York and long-time resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Dolata coordinates the Music History area and is former Director of the FIU Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts. As a lutenist, he has appeared at such venues as the Glimmerglass Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Northwest Bach Festival, the Miami Bach Society, the New World Symphony, and on broadcasts and recordings for NPR, CBS, and BBC. With Il Furioso, which he co-directs with Victor Coelho, he has recorded Kapsberger’s 1623 Book of Arias, Battaglia d’amore: the Music of Bellerofonte Castaldi, and George Frideric Handel: the ‘Amen, Alleluia’ Arias on the English label Toccata Classics. He also appears on several other American and European recordings.
His research on 17th and 18th-century lute music has been published in Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, Early Music, Acta Musicologica, Grove Music Online, and BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. He has been a visiting professor at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) at the Université François-Rabelais de Tours – CNRS where he continues to serve as a research associate and co-editor and author of the TABLATURE 1300–1750. An Encyclopedia (Brepols, 2025) with John Griffiths and Philippe Vendrix. David Dolata also maintains a long-standing affiliation with Boston University’s Historical Performance Program. His book, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols, was published by Indiana University Press in 2016. For more information, visit http://faculty.fiu.edu/~dolatad/.
Contact: dolatad@fiu.edu
Juvenal Correa-Salas | Early Opera, Accompanying, and Early Keyboards | Director of Collegium Musicum
Juvenal Correa-Salas, pianist, conductor, harpsichordist and organist studied in Venezuela, Puerto Rico and completed his graduated studies at Jacobs School of Music in Indiana University, Bloomington. He has studied under the guidance of Harriet Serr, Narciso Figueroa, Michel Block, Emile Naoumoff, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Thomas Baldner, David Effron, Thomas Binkley, Elisabeth Wright, Sir Nicholas Jackson, and Jose Peñin.
Mr. Correa-Salas has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and conducting at numerous festivals, concert series, opera houses, and universities in North America, South America, Europe and the Caribbean, including the Early Music Bloomington, Schola Cantorum Caracas, Inter- American Music Festival of San Juan, Teatro de la Opera Puerto Rico, Palacio Quintanar Music Festival Segovia Spain, Casal Festival Puerto Rico, La Granja Festival Spain, Segovia Cathedral Early Music Festival, Mexico City Music Festival, Art Basel Miami, and Chile University Concert Series.
He has performed solo recitals, made guest appearances, and directed projects and conducted performances with San Juan Consort, Padre Antonio Soler Baroque Ensemble, Bloomington Contemporary Ensemble, Simon Bolivar Orchestra Venezuela, Romance Project, Camerata Peninsular, and Il Furioso. Mr. Correa-Salas was a founder member of Latin American Ensemble Taku, with bassoonist Ezequiel Fainguersch and clarinetist Jorge Montilla, dedicated exclusively to the Latin American repertoire. He has been invited to lecture and perform at several international music symposia and music congress. He has collaborated with artists of international renown, including performances and projects with Violette Verdy, Virginia Zeani, Anton Coppola, Janos Starker, Justino Diaz, Franco Gulli, Krzysztof Penderecki, among others.
Mr. Correa-Salas has served as artistic director of projects devoted to early music, opera, contemporary music and multi-ethnic music in US, Europe and the Caribbean. He is a founding member of the Romance Project, with his wife ballerina Emily Ricca, an international music, dance, and history program dedicated to engage underprivileged communities around the world into the performing arts.
Contact: jcorreasalas@yahoo.com
