On August 24, Eliot realized a long cherished dream playing his transcriptions of all 6 Bach Suites for solo cello in 2 back to back concerts at the legendary Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He also taught a short seminar for a select group of superb students. The Accademia Chigiana is holy ground for guitarists. […]
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Conducting legend José Serebrier, together with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performs the premiere recording of four works by contemporary American composer, Robert Beaser. Two of the works, Notes on a Southern Sky and the Guitar Concerto, were written for guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, a noted pupil of Andrés Segovia, who performed the concerto […]
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This year, 2017, marks the 12th anniversary of Boston GuitarFest, with the theme “Feria Latina,” celebrating the Latin-American influence on the classical guitar. Boston GuitarFest 2017 is the dream of visionary guitar virtuoso and Artistic Director Eliot Fisk, and is cosponsored by New England Conservatory and Northeastern University Department of Music. Guitarists of all ages […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Eliot returns to Colorado to work with his lifelong friend Bruce Adolphe in the creation of a new work for solo guitar. Eliot met Bruce in the summer of 1969 when both were students at a small music camp in Vermont called Kinhaven. The collaboration continued in later at the Aspen Music Festival and in […]
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Boston GuitarFest Past, Present and Future By Eliot Fisk I founded Boston GuitarFest in 2006 at the New England Conservatory. From year one my aim has been to project an interdisciplinary vision of the classical guitar outward into the world. The first Boston GuitarFest team consisted of my wife, Zaira Meneses, now also an NEC […]
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