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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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Eliot Fisk ou le monde dans une guitare Eliot Fisk. Photo © Keitaro Yoshioka La guitare d’Eliot Fisk est ouverte sur le monde. Chargée de sensualité, sa musique invite au questionnement de notre société et de son histoire. La remise en question et la chasse aux préjugés représentent pour lui une hygiène intellectuelle quotidienne. Possédant […]

In the tenth year of the Boston GuitarFest, New England Conservatory’s Eliot Fisk, quite possibly the finest classical guitarist in the world, presided over a week of guitar concerts, clinics and competitions originated by. Saturday night featured Fisk as a performer, but it was not merely a star turn: instead, for most of the evening […]