A stretch for Ensemble Music Society: Arditti Quartet plays works from the past three decades by Jay Harvey – Thursday, March 30, 2017 The Big Bang Theory applied to the string quartet would probably identify the triggering event as the works of Joseph Haydn. Without pressing the analogy too hard, the music offered Wednesday evening […]
Building on the tremendous success of Boston Guitar Fest (which this year returns for its 12th season, from June 28 – July 2, 2017 at New England Conservatory and Northeastern University) this year will inaugurate the first year of a new festival: Salzburg Guitar Fest. This will run from May 24 – 27, 2017 […]
Some time in early 1978 I received a phone call in my 5th floor walk up artist’s garret in New York City. The voice at the other end said, “Hello, this is Ruggiero Ricci.” I promptly replied, “Yeah, and I’m the Pope!” And then, certain that one of my friends was playing a practical […]
The Washington Post Guitarist Eliot Fisk impresses with his uncanny ability to convey Bach’s polyphony By — Patrick Rucker November 27, 2016 Guitarist Eliot Fisk. (Jesse Weiner) Eliot Fisk, the distinguished American guitarist, played the first of a pair of concerts at the National Gallery on Saturday afternoon. Like his mentor, Andrés Segovia, Fisk’s influence […]
Legendary conductor and composer Jose Serebrier announcing the upcoming release of a new CD (LINN RECORDS) which will include Robert Beaser’s ground breaking GUITAR CONCERTO with dedicatee Eliot Fisk as soloist and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This monumental Concerto, premiered at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall New York in 2009, is a monumental work […]
On January 30 of 2015, by special invitation of US Secretary of State John Kerry, Eliot Fisk performed at the Secretary’s private residence in Boston at a special reception for eminent diplomats from Canada and Mexico. Eliot describes the occasion like this: “Of all the famous people I have met Secretary Kerry was perhaps […]
