Eliot Fisk, guitar | Bill Viola Memorial Fund Inaugural Concert Bill
Viola was among the few prominent classical guitar guitar instructors
in Philadelphia in the 1960s and was among the founding members of the
Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society, serving on the board and as
treasurer for many years. The Bill Viola Memorial Fund has been
established to inspire under-served individuals in our community
through musical experiences, music instruction and music education and
the fund's Inaugural Concert features his Elliot Fisk, his most
prominent student. Guitarist Eliot Fisk is
known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous
and virtuosic repertoire. He is also celebrated for his willingness to
take art music into unusual venues (schools, senior centers, and even
logging camps and prisons!). After nearly 50 years before the public
he remains as his mentor Andres Segovia once wrote, “at the top line
of our artistic world.” In the 2017-18 season Fisk
continues to break new ground for the guitar with marathon
performances of his transcriptions of all 6 Bach solo cello Suites,
duo performances with guitar legend Angel Romero and with a new trio
formed with virtuoso guitarists Joaquin Clerch and Aniello Desiderio.
The long awaited release of Robert Beaser’s monumental
guitar Concerto (dedicated to Eliot Fisk) on LINN records in 2017
elicited rave reviews online and in print. In the spring of 2017,
Eliot Fisk premiered Son Dementes Cuerdas with the famed Arditti
String Quartet with performances on two continents culminating in a
performance at Wigmore Hall in London in a concert also featuring the
Sequenza XI for solo guitar composed for and dedicated to Eliot Fisk
by Luciano Berio. Eliot Fisk has performed as soloist with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Rochester Symphony,
Orchestra of St. Lukes, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Pro Arte
Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra
Project (BMOP) and many others. He returns regularly to major concert
series such as Stanford Lively Arts, Spivey Hall (Atlanta), Duke
University Performances, Newman Center for the Performing Arts in
Denver; Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 92nd
Street Y in NYC, Da Camera Society of Houston, Da Camera Society of
Los Angeles, San Francisco Chamber Music; Segovia Series at Pick-
Staiger Hall at Northwestern University; Jordan Hall, Boston; Orange
County Performing Arts Center; Brahms, Mozart and Schubert Saal
(Vienna); Mozarteum Grosser Saal (Salzburg); Wigmore Hall and Queen
Elizabeth Hall (London) and at numerous guitar festivals such as those
of Cordoba, Spain; Belgrade, Serbia; and Iserlohn, Bad Aibling and
Hersbrueck, Germany. Categories: Concerts & Tour Dates
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