Recent :Music From the House With Four Chimneys.
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 Windham Orchestra, The Harry Partch Ensemble, the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble, and in many other chamber music settings. He currently performs as part of the Newman/Ghezzi Guitar Duo and the Baxter/Ghezzi Flute and Guitar Duo. The Baxter/Ghezzi Flute & Guitar Duo CD “Songs & Dances” is available from Eroica Classical Recordings.
His arrangement of "Morceau de Concours" for flute and guitar by Gabriel Fauré was selected as a Finalist in the 2007 Newly Published Music Competition of the National Flute Association and is published by Trillenium Music Company. His other publications include "Six Duos for Flute & Guitar" by Ferdinando Carulli, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" for voice, flute and guitar by J.S. Bach, "Guitarbooks I and II: Early Repertoire for Classical Guitar", "Four Chanson: for High Voice and Guitar" by Gabriel Fauré and "Suite no.6" by J.S. Bach originally for cello.
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, John Binder, Daniel Nightingale and Jan Krzywicki. Currently he is involved in a project developed and directed by guitarist Ed Eastridge to record and perform music of the 20th century French composer Erik Satie. The CD, entitled "Music From the House With Four Chimneys" is currently available from Big Mo Records.
Mr. Ghezzi holds a music degree from Temple University, College of Music where he studied with Peter Segal and Anna Kotsaranko. He has studied privately with Phillip de Fremery, Eliot Fisk and Vladimir Mikulka. He 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 Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian at Dartmouth College. Mr. Ghezzi lives in Hanover, New Hampshire where he gives private instruction in his home. He is past president of the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society.
William Ghezzi performs on a Dominique Delarue guitar.
