RICHARDSON, Texas (April 4, 2002) -Internationally recognized lutenist Hopkinson Smith will perform on vihuela de mano and six-course lute in a concert of Renaissance Music from Spain, France and England at The University of Texas at Dallas’ (UTD) Jonsson Performance Hall on Friday, April 19, at 8 p.m. Included will be works by Luys Milan, Luys de Narváez, Alonso Mudarra, Pierre Attaignant, John Johnson and John Dowland.

Tickets for Hopkinson Smith are free to anyone with a UTD photo identification card, $5 for students of other universities and children and $15 for the general public. They are available for purchase Tuesdays through Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at UTD’s Visual Arts Building or by phone with a credit card.

Internationally recognized as a leading personality in the field of early music and one of the world's great lutenists, the Harvard-educated Smith gives concerts and master classes throughout Eastern and Western Europe and in North and South America. He currently lives in Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. For more information on Hopkinson Smith, visit http://www.hopkinsonsmith.com/.

The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor, enrolls more than 7,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students. The school’s freshman class