Dušan Balarin is a specialist on a variety of lutes and early guitars. His artistic curiosity has led him to perform with leading artists and ensembles in the fields of Early Music, Jazz and Contemporary Arts. Notably, he has collaborated with Masaaki Suzuki, Lionel Meunier, William Christie, Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants, Rachel Podger, Bruce Dickey, Stephan MacLeod, Paul Watkins and Phil Setzer of the Emerson Quartet, Tessa Lark, and others. Dušan regularly performs with organizations such as The Washington Bach Consort, ARTEK, TENET, Harmonia Stellarum, and EMNY. Dušan attended the Juilliard School as a graduate recipient of the Historical Performance Scholarship where he performed with Juilliard 415 in North America and Europe. Before settling in New York, he apprenticed with lute virtuoso Nigel North and received his MM in Historical Performance with highest of honors from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.