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Eliot Fisk

Guitarist Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as a The repertoire of
charismatic performer famed for his adventur- the classical guitar
ous and virtuosic repertoire. He is celebrated has been trans-
for his willingness to take art music into un- formed through
usual venues: schools, senior centers, and even Fisk’s innumera-
logging camps and prisons. After nearly 50 ble transcriptions
years before the public he remains as his men- (including works
tor Andres Segovia once wrote, “at the top line by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Paganini,
of our artistic world.” Schubert, Mendelssohn, Granados, Albeniz
and many others). In addition, numerous new
Eliot Fisk has performed as soloist with the Los works have been dedicated to him by com-
Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, posers as varied as Leonardo Balada, Robert
the Rochester Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Beaser, Luciano Berio, Ralf Gawlick, Nicholas
Lukes, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Maw, George Rochberg, Daniel Bernard Rou-
American Composers Orchestra and numer- main and Kurt Schwertsik.
ous other prominent orchestras around the
world. He returns regularly to major concert Eliot Fisk remains a prolific recording artist.
series such as Stanford Lively Arts, Spivey Hall Recent releases include Ralf Gawlick’s Kollwitz
(Atlanta), Duke University Performances, New- Konnex for soprano and guitar (Musica Omnia)
man Center for the Performing Arts in Denver; Anthony Paul de Ritis’ Pop Concerto with Gil
Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Rose leading the Boston Modern Orchestra
Art, and the 92nd Street Y in NYC, Da Camera Project, a pair of CDs of new music dedicated
Society of Houston, Da Camera Society of Los to and transcribed by Fisk of works by Beaser,
Angeles, San Francisco Chamber Music; Sego- Corigliano, Schwertsik, and Rochberg (Wildner
via Series at Pick Staiger Hall at Northwestern Records) and duo discs with flamenco legend
University; Orange County Performing Arts Paco Peña (on Nimbus Records) and cellist Ye-
Center; Brahms, Mozart and Schubert Saal huda Hanani (Albany Records).
(Vienna); Mozarteum Grosser Saal (Salzburg);
Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall (Lon- Eliot Fisk was the last direct pupil of Andres
don) and at numerous guitar festivals such as Segovia and also studied interpretation with
those of Cordoba, Spain; Belgrade, Serbia; and the legendary harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick
Iserlohn, Bad Aibling and Hersbrueck, Germa- at Yale University, from which he graduated
ny. “summa cum laude” in 1976, and where directly
following his own graduation in 1977, he found-
Eliot Fisk has performed with a dizzying array ed the guitar department at the Yale School
of chamber music colleagues including flutist of Music.
Paula Robison; clarinetist Richard Stoltzman;
cellist Yehuda Hanani; violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Eliot Fisk is Founder and Artistic Director of
Gidon Kremer and Joshua Bell; and the Shang- Boston GuitarFest, an annual cross-disciplinary
hai, Juilliard, Miro, Borromeo and Miro String event co-sponsored by the New England Con-
Quartets. servatory and Northeastern University. In the
summer of 2014 he toured China, performing
He has invented numerous crossover projects with his wife, classical guitarist Zaira Meneses,
with among others Paco Peña (flamenco gui- and the couple’s young daughter, pianist Ra-
tar); Joe Pass and Bill Frisell (jazz guitar), chan- quel Fisk.
teuse Ute Lemper, and Turkish music specialist
Burhan Oecal.

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