Lutenistic practice has reached considerable heights in recent years, thanks to a growing number of world-class lutenists: Rolf Lislevand, Hopkinson Smith, Paul O'Dette, Miguel Yisrael, Andreas Martin, Robert Barto, Eduardo Egüez, Edin Karamazov, Nigel North, Christopher Wilson, Luca Pianca, Ben Salfield, Yasunori Imamura, Jozef van Wissem, Anthony Bailes, Peter Croton, Xavier Diaz-Latorre.
Julian Bream je postal slaven zaradi svojih koncertov z lutnjo in violino, kakor tudi Hans Neemann, Walter Gerwig, Suzanne Bloch in Diana Poulton.