Originally from Michigan, Doc Rossi has performed across North America and Europe and has recorded with various groups, playing Early Music, Hawaiian Slack-key guitar and Celtic, Mexican and American dance music. One of only a handful of players who specialize in the 18th-century cittern, he has recorded the works of Pasqualini Demarzi with Andrea Damiani. His publications include The Compleat Cittern, a tutor for 18th-century cittern (with transcriptions for guitar and other six-course instruments), the English translation of Andrea Damiani’s Method for Renaissance Lute, and The Original Guitar Styles of Jerry Donahue. Also a scholar, he has prepared a modern edition of Thomas Robinson’s New Citharen Lessons (1609), and published numerous articles dealing with guitar and cittern history, and with Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Beat Generation.