John Lenti's performances as a soloist and chamber musician on theorbo, renaissance lute, baroque lute, archlute, and baroque guitar have been described as “a joy to behold” (Seattle Times) and praised for their “nuanced beauty and character” (Gramophone). He regularly deploys his "unusually big sound" (Third Coast Digest) in all of the various early music series, in opera pits, churches, libraries, theaters, and living rooms all over the place, the Boston, Berkeley, Indianapolis, and Salish Sea Early Music Festivals, and with, among others over the years, American Bach Soloists, Bach Collegium San Diego, Carmel Bach Festival, Catacoustic Consort, Farallon Recorder Quartet, Haymarket Opera, The I-90 Collective, Magnificat, Magnolia Baroque Festival, Mercury Baroque, La Monica, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Musica Pacifica, Newberry Consort, New World Symphony, Opera Omnia, Portland Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Seattle Opera, and Seraphic Fire. He enjoys nothing so much as making music on tour with the I-90 Collective, Ostraka, Sacro Profano, and Wayward Sisters. His recording credits include "Division" with Ostraka, "And I remain: three love stories," with soprano Linda Tsatsanis, chamber music of Matthew Locke with Wayward Sisters, and work as a sideman with La Monica, Seattle Baroque, and Portland Baroque Orchestra. He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and Indiana University, and he studied lute with Nigel North, Jacob Heringman, and Elizabeth Kenny.