In 2005 he was appointed honorary professor at the Westsächsische Hochschule, Zwickau, for the manufacture of historical musical instruments at the campus of Markneukirchen.

In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for best score at the Cannes Film Festival for Only Lovers Left Alive. Van Wissem has played live and recorded with Jim Jarmusch, Tilda Swinton and Zola Jesus.

Award-winning lutenist and guitarist Peter Croton is an active performer & recording artist as soloist & accompanist. In the press he has been called a "lyric poet of the lute" and has been praised for his "breathtaking virtuosity" and "astonishing range of tone colors and dynamics.

The Lute Society of America, founded in 1966, is devoted to the lute and its music. Membership is open to anyone, anywhere – scholars and listeners as well as amateur or professional players. We share information through our publications, here on our worldwide web pages, and at one or two annual Summer Seminars.

Lutenist Richard Stone has performed as soloist and accompanist worldwide. The New York Times called his playing “beautiful” and “lustrously melancholy,” while the Washington Post described it as having “the energy of a rock solo and the craft of a classical cadenza.”

His CDs get high praise [4 stars] in respected international magazines as Fanfare, Diapason, Le Monde de la Musique, Goldberg, etc. The prestigious British Early Music magazine begins its August 2009 extensive review of the Cardin/Weiss recording by “Discussions of Weiss recordings in recent issues of this journal made no mention of the most remarkable project of all, [by] the French-Canadian lutenist Michel Cardin”.