12 Facts About Eliot Fisk

Eliot Hamilton Fisk was born on August 10,1954 and is an American classical guitarist.

Eliot Fisk finished high school in DeWitt, New York, and then studied music at Yale University with harpsichordists Ralph Kirkpatrick and Albert Fuller.

Eliot Fisk was a student of guitarists Oscar Ghiglia, Alirio Diaz, and Andres Segovia.

Eliot Fisk received private lessons from Segovia over the years and was his last private student.

In 1989 Fisk became an instructor at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg in Austria and in 1996 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Eliot Fisk created the Boston GuitarFest and is its artistic director.

Eliot Fisk has performed with orchestras around the world, including Orchestra of St Luke's, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, and the Pro Arte Orchestra.

Eliot Fisk has performed and recorded with flautist Paula Robison; violinist Ruggiero Ricci, jazz guitarists Joe Pass and Bill Frisell, flamenco guitarist Paco Pena, and singer Ute Lemper.

Eliot Fisk has increased the amount of material available to classical guitarists by transcribing music written for other instruments.

Eliot Fisk has expanded the body of music for classical guitar by commissioning new pieces from composers, such as Leonardo Balada, Robert Beaser, Luciano Berio, William Bolcom, Nicholas Maw, Xavier Montsalvatge, George Rochberg, and Kurt Schwertsik.

Eliot Fisk turned these compositions into Segovia: Canciones Populares, which became a bestseller on the Classical Album chart of Billboard magazine.

Eliot Fisk collaborated with Ernesto Halffter, at the request of Segovia, on Halffter's Concierto for Guitar and Orchestra, which was performed with the Spanish National Orchestra and then turned into an album.