Guitarist William Feasley was the first guitarist to receive the Peabody Conservatory’s coveted Artist Diploma. Selected to play for Andres Segovia at the Master’s historic last class, he was later featured on the CBS special Eulogy of Segovia. Since making his debut in 1980 with the San Francisco Ballet, where he performed Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez for Lou Christianson’s Ballet, Don Juan, Mr. Feasley has concertized extensively in the United States and abroad.
This past season he was featured at the Martz International Guitar Festival in Bratislava, the Stramberk Guitar Festival in the Czech Republic, the Sarajevo winter Festival, the Forfest New Music Festival in the C.R., as a soloist with the Moyzes String Quartet (principals from the Slovak Philharmonic), the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy, the Prague International Book Fair opening concert, at the US embassies in Ljubljana, Sarajevo and Bratislava, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., on a tour of the US Virgin Islands and across the US both as a soloist and member of the D’Amore Duo with the Russian oboist, Vladimir Lande.