BGFest XVII GALA Concert: "Toward the Light" – Cassatt String Quartet with guitarist Eliot Fisk
$40
Enrique Granados — Danzas española, Op. 37, No. 5: Andaluza (solo guitar; arr. Eliot Fisk)
Enrique Granados — Danzas española, Op. 35, No. 10: Danza Triste (solo guitar; arr. Eliot Fisk)
Isaac Albéniz — 12 Piezas Características, Op. 92, No. 12: Torre Bermeja (solo guitar; arr. Eliot Fisk)
Ernesto Halffter — Habanera (solo guitar; arr. Eliot Fisk)
Isaac Albéniz — "III. Sevilla" from Suite Española, No. 1, Op. 47 (solo guitar; arr. Eliot Fisk)
Luigi Boccherini — Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major, G. 448 "Fandango"
Daniel Strong Godfrey — Toward Light: Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet (world premiere)
The acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet will join co-founder and artistic director of Boston GuitarFest, American classical guitarist Elliot Fisk, at a live gala concert of the 17th Boston GuitarFest. Titled "Toward the Light," the concert will feature a world premiere of Daniel Strong Godfrey’s quintet for guitar and string quartet, and works by Turina, Granados, and Boccherini. An open dress rehearsal with the Cassatts and Mr. Fisk will also take place at the Jordan Hall Fisk at 5pm Eastern. The Cassatt String Quartet will appear in the formation of first violinist Muneko Otani, second violinist Jennifer Leshnower, violist Ah Ling Neu (stepping in for Rosemary Nelis), and cellist Gwen Krosnick.
COVID-19 Protocols: All audience members are expected to send in either 1) proof of vaccination (three shots / boosted) or 2) negative test result (antigen within 24 hours or PCR within 72 hours) in advance. Masking is reccomended indoors.
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About Cassatt String Quartet
Hailed for its “mighty rapport and relentless commitment,” the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for nearly four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing’s Central Conservatory. The Quartet’s prolific discography – featured three times in Alex Ross’s “10 Best Classical Recordings” column in The New Yorker – includes over forty recordings, for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels.
The Cassatt Quartet’s 2023-2024 season includes major performances and recordings of works by Tania León, Victoria Bond, Adolphus Hailstork, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, and Daniel S. Godfrey; their annual residencies at the Seal Bay Festival and Cassatt in the Basin!; hometown concerts in the New York area, including at Symphony Space and Bargemusic; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain.
The CSQ is named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.
https://www.cassattquartet.com/About Eliot Fisk
Guitarist Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire.
Having 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; 92Y 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).
He has collaborated with numerous chamber music colleagues including flutist Paula Robison; clarinetist Richard Stoltzman; cellist Yehuda Hanani; violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Gidon Kremer, and Joshua Bell; and the Shanghai, Juilliard, Miro, Borromeo, and Arditti String Quartets.
The repertoire of the classical guitar has been transformed through Fisk's innumerable transcriptions (including works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Paganini, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Granados, Albeniz, and many others). In addition, numerous new works have been dedicated to him by composers as varied as Leonardo Balada, Robert Beaser, Luciano Berio, Ralf Gawlick, Nicholas Maw, George Rochberg, Daniel Bernard Roumain, and Kurt Schwertsik.
Eliot Fisk is Founder and Artistic Director of Boston GuitarFest, an annual cross-disciplinary event co-sponsored by the New England Conservatory and Northeastern University and now entering its 13th consecutive year. In 2017 he created and served as Artistic Director of the first ever and immensely successful Salzburg Guitar Fest at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg.
http://www.eliotfisk.com