WILLIAM KANENGISER

Guitar

USA

Acclaimed soloist, recording artist and professor at the USC Thornton School of Music, William Kanengiser is one of the few guitarists to have won the Concert Artists Guild New York Competition.

His solo recordings on the GSP label display his unique approach to programming, ranging from the music of the Old World to the Caribbean to his latest discClassical Cool, an exploration of jazz currents for classical guitar. He has earned critical acclaim for his imaginative arrangements for solo guitar and guitar quartet, and for producing two instructional videos for Hot Licks.

Kanengiser may be best known as the classical guitarist in the 1986 film Crossroads. He is also part of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.