Eliot Fisk in Concert
October 19 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Concord Community Music School is excited to announce an extraordinary musical event in honor of the School’s 40th Anniversary Year and in conjunction with the new Concord Sound & Color Festival (October 18-19, 2024).
Legendary guitarist Eliot Fisk will perform a free solo recital at CCMS on Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 7:30 pm in our historic Recital Hall.
Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire. Eliot is also celebrated for his willingness to take art music into unusual venues (schools, assisted living facilities, and even logging camps and prisons). He continues to be guided by the belief that “music is our common language, a metaphor for all that is noble in the human race.” After five decades before the public, he remains (as his mentor Andres Segovia once wrote) “at the top line of our artistic world.”
Seating is limited; stay tuned for your opportunity to reserve your seats for the concert!
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eliot Fisk continues to break new ground for the guitar with marathon performances of his transcriptions of all 6 Bach Cello Suites, duo performances with guitar legend Angel Romero and with a new trio formed with virtuoso guitarists Joaquin Clerch and Aniello Desiderio.
He has performed with a dizzying array of chamber music colleagues including flutist Paula Robison; clarinetist Richard Stoltzman; cellist Yehuda Hanani; violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Gidon Kremer and Joshua Bell, the Shanghai, Juilliard, Miro, Borromeo and Arditti String Quartets. He has invented numerous crossover projects with, among others, Paco Peña (flamenco guitar); Joe Pass and Bill Frisell (jazz guitar) chanteuse Ute Lemper, and Turkish music specialist Burhan Öçal.
Fisk was the last direct pupil of Andres Segovia and studied interpretation with the legendary harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick at Yale University, from which he graduated “summa cum laude” in 1976, and where, directly following his own graduation in 1977, he founded the guitar department at the Yale School of Music.
Described by one New York Times headline as a “Fiery Missionary to the Unconverted”, Fisk teaches at New England Conservatory and recently retired as Professor at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he taught in 5 languages. He is Founder and Director of Boston GuitarFest.
In June 2006, King Juan Carlos of Spain awarded Fisk the “Cruz de Isabel la Católica” for his service to the cause of Spanish music. Earlier recipients of this honor have included Andrés Segovia and Yehudi Menuhin.