Bill Purse

Bill Purse is co-author of the Guitar Expressions project. Bill is Chair of the Guitar and Music Technology departments at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), and he is past chair of the MENC/GAMA/NAMM Guitar Task Force, helping to create over 1000 new class guitar programs nationally. Purse received Duquesne University's 1996 Presidents award for excellence in scholarship and a 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award for guitar pedagogy and performance. Bill has toured worldwide with the synthesizer ensemble Aergo and is the producer, arranger, and guitarist/musical director for the Duquesne faculty guitar ensemble Catch 22. Bill has written and arranged numerous published works.