Lewis E. Peterman, Jr. is Professor of Music at San Diego State University, where he teaches courses in musicology, ethnomusicology, and the performance of early music. He currently performs with several early-music ensembles in the United States and in Europe, including Alfonso X (which specializes in the monophonic court music of 13th-century Spain), The Guidonian Hand (which concentrates on the polyphonic court music of the 16th and 17th centuries), and the The San Diego Early Music Consort, a Renaissance ensemble of singers and instrumentalists of which he is the founder and director. As a clarinetist and recorder player, he has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. As a scholar/performer he has published in both musicology and ethnomusicology, and has two early-music recordings to his credit: The Jazz Minstrels (jazz played on Medieval and Renaissance instruments) and The Age of Chivalry (a recording of Medieval and Renaissance secular instrumental and vocal music played on historical reproductions of period instruments). As a teacher, he has also taught in the College-Conservatory of Music at The University of Cincinnati, The University of Hawaii, and Point Loma College in San Diego, California.