Saturday May 8th, 2010
Mandolin, Guitar, Acoustic Bass, and Clarinet 
- Concert 7:30 pm $20
- Modern Mandolin Style Workshop 2 - 4 pm
(Group lesson with Joe) $40
- Guitar Workshop 2 - 4 pm
(Group lesson with Nadav) $40
Joseph Brent has brought a consummate artistry and dedication to the mandolin, and has helped to bring his instrument into the 21st century.
Graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 1999 with a focus on contemporary music, he immediately began working closely with many of the great modern composers, having premiered or performed works by Elliot Carter, Pierre Boulez, Magnus Lindberg, Olga Neuwirth, and Nathan Davis, among many others, and has lectured on contemporary music at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He has performed with many well-known chamber ensembles in New York, including The International Contemporary Ensemble, Argento Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, Fireworks Music, Tres Americas, and Henry Street Chamber Opera. Concurrently, he is thoroughly versed in the traditional orchestral repertoire, performing regularly with The Boston Symphony, The American Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet and City Opera, New Jersey Symphony, Juilliard Opera and Ballet Orchestras, and the Chelsea Symphony. As a solo artist, he has given recitals and clinics across the United States, Europe, and Asia, and made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2001 with the New England Philharmonic Ensemble in a program of new music. In 2007, he was featured soloist with the Orchestra a Pizzico Ligure in several performances throughout northern Italy, and performed in the Miller Theatre portrait of Elliot Carter, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky, in celebration of the composer's 99th birthday. With Iranian-born author and performance artist Amir Parsa, he has presented multi-media staged readings and demonstrations, including the recent Engendered Festival at the Halvai Gallery. In 2008, he was a featured performer and clinician at the Classical Mandolin Society of America annual convention in Montreal, and performed an all-Carter program at the Tanglewood Music Festival under the direction of James Levine, and in 2009 he headlined the Hildener Meisterkurs für Mandoline und Guitarre in Düsseldorf, Germany, and performed with Tres Américas Project at the Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea in Lima, Peru. That same year he and with his duo partner, harp virtuoso Bridget Kibbey, were named amongst the first artists to participate in the Weill Music Institute's Carnegie Hall Musical Connections program.
Nadav Lev An Andres Segovia Award winner (Musica en Compostela, Spain 2006), Nadav Lev was hailed by Classical Guitar Magazine as “A talented and engagingly musical performer...his stage presence is entirely gracious and personable...” His 2008 Carnegie Hall debut was described by the magazine as “...sensitive and nuanced performance...” and his debut album as “a CD to savour and delight in. His playing is of the utmost authority...a sheer delight...” Nadav is performing throughout the US, Israel and Europe, in venues such as New York's Lincoln Center. An Israel native, he was the only guitarist to recently win the America-Israel Cultural Foundation prestigious Abroad Studies award, in addition to numerous awards and prizes. He is appearing frequently on TV and radio in the US and Israel, and his compositions were performed in different venues, including the International Asian Music Festival. Lev holds a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with David Starobin and David Leisner, and has attended master classes with world renowned guitarists Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco, Alvaro Pierri and David Russell. He holds a Bachelor in composition from the Rubin Academy in Tel-Aviv, where he studied with Ruben Seroussi and Yizhak Sadai. Nadav currently resides in New York City.
www.josephbrent.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oybSaSRh-64
Opening for Joseph Brent, the Local Classical Guitar Legend, William Ghezzi
 Guitarist William Ghezzi has performed extensively with chamber ensembles, orchestras, choruses, dance companies, in theater and opera, and for films, radio and television. He has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Harry Partch Ensemble, the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble, and in many other chamber music settings. He currently performs as part of the Baxter/Ghezzi Flute and Guitar Duo. Their CD “Songs & Dances” is available from Eroica Classical Recordings. 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. 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 Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian at Dartmouth College. His solo CD "William Ghezzi--Guitar" is available on Amazon.com.
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