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Anthony Glise (born January 17, 1956 in St. Joseph, Missouri) is a guitarist, composer and author. He is the only American guitarist who has won first prize in the International Toscanini Competition held in Italy. He is also the only guitarist to be chosen as "Individual Artist of the Year" by the Missouri State Arts Council. Glise has frequently been cited for his eclectic and creative but highly reclusive tendencies in both his private and professional activities. As of late, one could argue that Glise more often frequents European monasteries and hermitages than concert halls, and his presence - even at the premieres of his own compositions - is increasingly rare. These reclusive traits have intensified to such an extent that during a meeting at a national guitar conference (Oberlin, US, 2005), Glise was despairingly dubbed by several board members as "The Ghost." In 2010 he accepted a professorship at the University of Missouri-Columbia ("Mizzou") to launch their first classical guitar program. That program offers degrees in undergraduate through graduate classical guitar as well as a PhD in Music Education. ==Biography== His musical training began at a very early age under tutelage from his mother (a piano teacher) and father (an amateur baritone vocalist). Glise's musical studies continued from that time and he ultimately matriculated from New England Conservatory (Boston, US, 1983) with a Master of Music in Classical Guitar Performance. While in Boston, he pursued studies in classical guitar, composition, musicology, early music performance practice and historical dance, under Robert Paul Sullivan, Benjamin Zander, Daniel Pinkham (a private student of Parisien pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger who also taught Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Elliot Carter, et al.) and Julia Sutton (a private assistant to musicologist, Donald Grout). During this time (1980–83) Glise was also a lutenist and dancer for the Boston historical dance troupe, "Terpsichore." While finishing his degree at New England Conservatory, he simultaneously studied business management and administration at Harvard University (Cambridge, US) and shortly thereafter briefly studied medicine, earning a license as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). From the early 1980s Glise struck up a cordial written friendship with the famed American poet, Chad Walsh (cf. attached letter), a colleague of W. H. Auden and close friend of (by then) the late C. S. Lewis. Much of the correspondence between Walsh and Glise focused on exchanging ideas about their respective poetic writings and the integral relationship between poetry and music although none of Glise's extant poetry is known to have been published as of this writing. Following studies in Boston, Glise moved to Vienna, Austria (1983) to study music at the Konservatorium der Stadt (classical guitar performance) and simultaneously at the University of Vienna (Universitaet-Wien) where he earned a diploma in German Language. Glise's other diplomas and awards during this period include matriculation from the Universite Catholique de Lille (Lille, France, in French Language and Civilization), ARCUM (Rome, Italy, in 19th-Century Musical Performance Practice) and additional awards from the IX Nemzetkozi Gitarfesztival (Esztergom, Hungary, for musical composition), Ville Sable-sur-Sarthe (France, for musical composition), et al. After his studies in Vienna, Glise took a teaching post in Nenzing, (in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg while living in Bludenz), followed by posts and professional activities in Northern France (Lille), in Italy at the "Academy for the Study of 19th-Century Music" (Vigevano) and Southern Germany (Schwäbisch Gmünd). While living in the Alps, Glise was, for a time, involved in free solo climbing. During his last ascent (in Piedmont, Italy) he was leading a climb, "on-sight" (soloing a face that hasn't been scouted), and the face went slick at roughly 5 meters from the top as heavy cloud cover moved in. (The girlfriend of his second (Stefano Abrile ) was on an adjacent cliff and, unaware that there was a problem, took the attached picture with a telephoto lens.) Eventually Glise and Abrile, talked each other back down the face in a grueling and somewhat miraculous descent. This was the last time Glise solo climbed. From 1989-90, Glise was script writer and host of the first internationally syndicated guitar radio program, "Glise on Guitar" which featured music and personal interviews with some of the world's leading musical figures including Pepe Romero, Sharon Isben, Christopher Parkening, Paul O'Dette, Sir Neville Marriner, et al. Satellite distribution of that program included the US via PRI (Public Radio International) and Europe, South America and the Far East via AFN (Armed Forces Network). In 1991 Glise became the only American-born guitarist to win First Prize at the International Toscanini Competition (Italy), with an unprecedented unanimous vote from the competition jury. That competition was held in the town of Stresa on Lago Maggiore, and the ceremonial award concert was performed on the island, Isole dei Pescatori. During this same time Glise also acted as artist-in-residence and touring artist for over a dozen US state arts councils and similar European programs. These residencies involved work as a performer, composer and educator and included time that Glise spent in Fort Yates (North Dakota) on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation (the final resting place of murdered, Lakota Holy Man and Chief, Sitting Bull). This period made a deep impression on Glise, due in part to his respect and affinity to the tribal community and his participation in Native American sacred rites. His professional activities continued to expand from this time (particularly in Europe) and in 2006 Glise was invited to the board of an ongoing project of the French national organization, Domaine Musique, to help develop better relations between French composers and feature film directors. He is the only non-French ever invited to that prestigious assembly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Glise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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