Vaughan Recital Series presents William Ghezzi, classical guitar

Performing solo guitar works of Abel Carlevaro, Jimmy Wyble, Alexander Tansman, Joaquin Nin-Culmell and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

November 8, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center
Sponsored by
Music Department
Audience
Public
More information
Samantha Candon
603-646-3531

Guitarist William Ghezzi has performed extensively with orchestras, chamber ensembles, choruses, dance companies, in theater and opera, and for films, radio and television. He has appeared with the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, The Harry Partch Ensemble, the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble, and in many other chamber music settings. He has commissioned numerous solo and chamber music compositions for himself, the Newman/Ghezzi Guitar Duo, the Baxter/Ghezzi Flute & Guitar Duo and the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble including works by Robert Maggio, Laurie MacGregor, Kile Smith, Robert Capanna,and Jan Krzywicki. Recently he completed projects to video record the 20 Microestudios of Abel Carlevaro and the Nuevos Estudios Sencillo of Leo Brouwer. Both projects can be viewed at Vimeo.com and heard on SoundCloud. In 2012 he premiered "The Great Valley No.7", for solo guitar, part of a series of pieces composed by Paul A. Epstein, inspired by the paintings "La Grande Vallée" by the abstract expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and dedicated to the memory of Mr. Ghezzi's teacher, Peter Segal. Ghezzi has been on the music faculties of Temple University, Chestnut Hill College, Settlement Music School in Philadelphia and the Upper Valley Music Center in Lebanon New Hampshire. In 1990 Mr. Ghezzi received a Master of Science degree from Drexel University College of Information Studies. Currently he is Digital Production & Metadata Librarian at Dartmouth College. Mr. Ghezzi can be heard on Pandora, Internet Radio, his videos can be seen on YouTube and Vimeo and his latest CD "Variations" is available at Amazon.com.

Location
Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center
Sponsored by
Music Department
Audience
Public
More information
Samantha Candon
603-646-3531