Italian
English
Bio of Ganesh Del Vescovo
(Updated to 08 March 2023)
The Italian guitarist and composer Ganesh Del Vescovo, today considered a virtuoso of the classical guitar, began his guitar studies as a self-taught musician. An important meeting with Alvaro Company, a pupil of Andrès Segovia, brought him to follow Company’s courses at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence, where he graduated with full grades, cum laude and honourable mention “for his extraordinary skill in portraying the character and mood of the pieces performed.”
Straight from the start Del Vescovo’s activity as a composer developed hand in hand with the study of the instrument itself. He always felt free to experiment and explore new guitar techniques, and thus developed a very personal musical concept, partly inspired by his meeting with Indian classical music and musicians.
He has published numerous scores, studies, CDs, DVDs and books; At the publishing houses; Sinfonica Nuova Carisch (Milano) GMC Guitar Media Collection (Firenze), Les Productions d’OZ, (Canada), Guitart, EMA Vinci (Firenze), Gendai Guitar (Tokyo), Guitart, Italy, Ut Orpheus (Bologna).
In 2016 the entire works for guitar solo of Ganesh Del Vescovo has published by Sinfonica, this completing the works that have already been published. The works will consist in three volumes, each with an included CD.
In 1990 he won the prize “Boris Christoff” at the Conservatory of Florence
In 2011 he won the first prize for composition at the International Festival “Claxica 2011” at Castel d’Aiano, Bologna with the piece for guitar solo Schegge di luce (“Splinters of Light”) then published by Sinfonica Nuova Carisch.
In 2016 he won the first prize for composition at the International Festival “Michele Pittaluga” at Alessandria, Italy with the piece for guitar duo Improvviso e Ritmico.
His curriculum includes many articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines, written by outstanding critics, musicians, writers and musicologists such as: Leonardo Pinzauti, Daniele Spini, Alvaro Company, Angelo Gilardino, Mario Luzi, Kazuhito Yamashita, Keiko Fujiie Franco Cavallone, Piero Viti, Ermanno Brignolo, Steve Marsh, Stephen Kenyon, Eleonora Negri, Baret Magarian, Francesca Joppolo, Poireinganba Thanglam (Len), etc. His compositions (sheet music, cds and dvds) have often been reviewed as the best pubblications of the moment.
Besides his own compositions, his concert repertoire includes music belonging to the many periods of the classical guitar: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and Contemporary. He has also developed a personal technique of transcribling music written for other instruments, therefore his repertoire also includes his own transcriptions.
He gave the first world performance of the pieces: Ballade, Notturno, Il Concerto catalano  and Quattro pezzi in memoria by Alvaro Company; Circo Minore by Sylvano Bussotti; in 2015, for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the first Italian performance of Le stagioni artificiali by Salvatore Sciarrino.
Ganesh Del Vescovo’s Studies and compositions are featured on the syllabus of various conservatories, academies and music schools in Italy and other parts of the world.
At present he holds guitar courses and Master Classes at the Scuola di Musica at Centro Studi Musica & Arte, via Pietrapiana and Sesto Fiorentino.
Since 2019 he has been artistic director of the Florence Guitar Festival.
The great Italian poet Mario Luzi wrote about him: “Over the years I have heard Del Vescovo play many times on different occasions and it always made me feel as though I had entered into an enchanted sphere consisting of the emotions and feelings of a beautiful musical talent; a personal yet communicative, and at times self-luminous sphere.”