I'm a Musician. I Play Bass, Guitar, Sax, Piano and Drums

Suono la contrabbassa sia da sopra che da sotto e di solito lei non se ne accorge. Ruotandola mi sento come un re, ma so che prima o poi tornando a casa riderò.

http://gabrielemitelli.com

Gabriele Mitelli

Musician, Artistic Director

 

Gabriele Mitelli was born in Brescia in 1988. He studied with maestro Beppe Rusconi, and then continued with Markus Stockhausen in Cologne, Germany. In 2017, he was named the best new Italian talent by the critics of 'Musica Jazz' magazine and, in the same year, he won the SIAE 'Air' competition for artistic residencies abroad, with which he won a collaboration with the Conservatory of Lisbon and the Italian Cultural Institute in the Portuguese capital. His second album O.N.G. 'Crash', released by the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, was one of the best records in the 'European Jazz Chart'.  In just a few years he has played in some of the most important European festivals, alongside exponents of jazz and impro music including Mats Gustaffson, Anna Högberg, Mette Rasmussen, Wayne Horovitz, Susanna Santos Silva, Elio Martusciello, Tobias Delius, Cristiano Calcagnile, Nino Locatelli, ​Jeff Parker, Chad Taylor, Ken Vandermark, Rob Mazurek, John Edwards, Mark Sanders, Pasquale Mirra, Alexander Hawkins, Chris Speed, Gianluca Petrella, Ralph Alessi; he also collaborates regularly with Cristina Donà, one of the most appreciated singer-songwriters and performers in the Pop scene. In 2019, he released two new records, reviewed by international publications, which reach the top of the European charts: "The World Behind the Skin", released with We Insist! Records and 'Star Gaze Night', a duo with Rob Mazurek, produced by the Portuguese label Clean Feed.

 

In 2021, he presented his latest project: 'European Galactic Orchestra', an ensemble of twelve internationally renowned musicians from all over Europe. As artistic director, in 2017, after various experiences in local clubs and festivals, he decided to devote himself to the promotion of musical events in the Brescia area, devising the 'Ground Music Festival', a travelling event hosting some of the most important artists of the world creative music scene since 2017. In 2018, together with a group of artists and sector journalists, INDICA was created: an identity project extended to improvised and research music. In 2021 he has founded BAO - Brescia Arts Observatory, a multidisciplinary container that brings together most of the territorial associations working on experimentation and contemporary music

Music for the cosmos
unpublished songs / rarities

Young Astronauts Club is a stadium rock group featuring singer / songwriter / guitarist / multi-instrumentalist / producer Mic (Michael James Macintosh), singer / songwriter / keyboardist / multi-instrumentalist / producer Krs (Crystal Dawn Macintosh) and a continuously active, rotating cast of musicians, vocalists, producers, sonic / visual artists and remixers. As primogenitures of post rock, their collective mission is to continue to bring music forward, into the 21st century and beyond.

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 solo and chamber music settings. Mr. Ghezzi can be heard on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube Music his videos can be seen on YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram. His latest recording, Telemann: Fantasias for Viola da Gamba, is available on all major streaming services.

​Currently Ghezzi is working on a project to transcribe, record and perform a selection of Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann originally composed for viola da gamba.  Only recently rediscovered, these pieces are a new addition to the guitar repertoire

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. Currently Ghezzi is working with composer Paul A. Epstein to transcribe a selection of his piano compositions for guitar. 

Ghezzi's arrangement of "Morceau de Concours" for flute and guitar by Gabriel Fauré was selected as a finalist in the Newly Published Music Competition of the National Flute Association and is published by Trillenium Music Company. His other publications include "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.
​
​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, and Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. Mr. Ghezzi lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Currently, he is giving private guitar instruction at all levels from his home.

Followers of jean-marie ventrice