Eliot Fisk with Cassatt String Quartet
Free
- Eliot Fisk, guitar
- Muneko Otani, violin
- Jennifer Leshnower, violin
- Rosemary Nelis, viola
- Gwen Krosnick, cello
Anthony Paul De Ritis — Passion's Continuum (world premiere)
Heitor Villa-Lobos — Guitar Concerto, W. 501 (cadenza)
Heitor Villa-Lobos — Prelude No. 5 "Homenagem à vida social" ("Homage to Social Life")
Daniel Strong Godfrey — Toward Light: Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet
The world-renowned Cassatt String Quartet comes to Northeastern University for a free performance with guitarist Eliot Fisk. The program features the world premiere of Passion's Continuum by Anthony Paul de Ritis, music by Daniel S. Godfrey, Pulitzer-prize winning composer Zhou Long, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
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, guitar
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