 Oscar Ghiglia
Oscar Ghiglia was born in 1938 in Livorno, Italy, to a pianist mother and a painter father. While attending Rome's Santa Cecilia Convervatory, he participated in Segovia's summer master classes in Siena and Santiago de Compostela. His graduation from the Conservatory in 1962 was followed by several important awards: First Prize in the Orense Guitar Competition, First Prize in the Santiago de Compostela Guitar Competition and First Prize in the Radio France International Guitar Competition.
In 1964, Andrés Segovia invited Ghiglia to be his assistant in master classes in California. Since then, Oscar Ghiglia has given concerts and masterclasses throughout the world. In addition to appearing extensively in all parts of North and South America and Europe, he is a frequent performer in the Far East, Israel, Argentina, New Zealand and the South Pacific, and has recorded for Angel and Nonesuch Records.
While being active as a concert artist, Ghiglia has always favored teaching as a sister profession. Very few well-known guitarists today have not at one time or another been in his classes and profited from his lessons. Oscar Ghiglia is currently professor of guitar at the Basel Music-Akademie where he teaches post-graduate students and gives summer courses in Europe, America and the Middle East. He established the classical guitar summer program at Aspen, CO, and taught there for twenty years. He now regularly gives summer classes at the Festival d'Arc in southern France, at the Chigi Academy in Siena, Italy, and at the Festival Garnanno (Italy).
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