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Barbara is a GRAMMY-winning ensemble member and vocal soloist performing the music of the Middle Ages through the present era.

As a soloist, she has appeared with Masterworks Chorale, Musica Sacra, The Boston Cecilia, Seven Times Salt, 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band, and Long & Away: A Consort of Viols. As an ensemble member, she performs with the GRAMMY-winning ensemble The Crossing (Philadelphia, PA), Emmanuel Music (Boston, MA),  Meravelha Medieval Ensemble (Boston, MA),  Red Shift (Baton Rouge, LA),  Ensemble Altera (Providence, RI)  and Cappella Clausura (Boston, MA), among others. 

She also appears regularly with many of the choirs of religious institutions around Boston; to include Church of the Advent, Church of the Redeemer,  and King’s Chapel. Barbara is the soprano cantor at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.

An enthusiastic supporter of new music, she especially enjoys the opportunity to premiere and record new works. Highlights include recording Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2018 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance), as well as performing the world premieres of  Julia Wolfe’s “Fire in my mouth” (with the NY Philharmonic and The Crossing, 2019), Karl Henning's From the Pit of a Cave in the Cloud (2015), and Kile Smith’s The Consolation of Apollo (with The Crossing, 2014).

In addition to performing, Barbara serves on the board of the Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP) in Boston and helps to produce their annual summer concert series. She is also the executive director of Meravelha.

Barbara is a member of Beyond Artists, a coalition of artists that donates a percentage of their concert fee to organizations they care about. Barbara supports the ACLU, the Pope Memorial Humane Society, and 350.org.

Patrick Dunnevant is an American composer, arranger, and conductor active in the Nashville area.

B.M. Music Education, Belmont University
M.M. Composition, Westminster Choir College

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.
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​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.

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