Luis Abrantes 
Arrangements and online lute lessons

I was born in S. Miguel island, in the Azores archipelago in Portugal and started playing the classical guitar at the age of 10. I subsequently continued my studies and completed a Master's Degree as a classical guitar teacher.

During my time in university, I started also playing early plucked instruments like the renaissance and baroque lutes and later the theorbo and baroque guitar as well. Eventually I also completed a degree in those instruments in ESMAE in Porto.

I slowly decided to start sharing videos of myself playing. Many times, they are arrangements that I made of my favourite pieces written for other instruments, something I enjoy doing a lot. 

Since I got a fair amount of requests for those arrangements and also for online lute lessons (or guitar or theorbo lessons) and because there aren't many lute teachers ("lute teachers near me" and "lute lessons near me" are probably common search queries...), I decided to create this website to facilitate that.