Eliot Fisk ...

... is an exceptional classical guitar virtuoso. He was born in Philadelphia in 1958. He attended Yale University where he studied under Ralph Kirkpatrick and Albert Fuller. Immediately after completing his degree he was asked to form the Guitar Department at Yale. In 1974 he met the guitar legend Andres Segovia and had private lessons with him for several years. Segovia on Eliot Fisk: “One of the most brilliant, intelligent and gifted guitarists of our age.”



Eliot Fisk is a professor at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg where he teaches in five different languages. He is also head of the Guitar faculty at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

A lot of his recordings have won prizes and entered the American billboard charts as “bestsellers”. In 1996 he was invited by the Spanish royal family to play in the Palacio de los Cordova in the Spanish city of Granada for President Bill Clinton and his family.

“The Red Guitar” and
“Ein kleines Requiem”

In 2010 Wildner Records released two Eliot Fisk productions. The titles of the productions: “The Red Guitar” and “Ein kleines Requiem”. The requiem of the Viennese composer Kurt Schwertsik, recollects the Spanish Civil War and is made up of 18 different pieces. The compositions and the corresponding renditions for the guitar were produced in a period of cooperation between Eliot Fiskand Kurt Schwertsik that lasted more than ten years. “The Red Guitar” addresses the outstanding and in some cases very personal works of the US-American composers Georg Rochberg, Robert Beaser, Relly Raffman and John Corigliano.



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Bach meets MonkAugustin Wiedemann, 2005MoontownBurkhard Wolters, 2006

WonderlandAntal Pusztai, 2007324Augustin Wiedemann, 2009

Talking TreesGruber & Maklar, 2009The Red GuitarEliot Fisk, 2010

Ein kleines Requiem
Op. 97Eliot Fisk, 2010OratioBoris Yoffe, 2010

01. Leb wohl (Farewell)
02. Abschied nehmen (Leave Taking)
03. Vogel als Bote (Bird as Messenger)
04. Kleine Fee (Little Sprite)
05. Marche boche
06. Trio
07. Double entendre
08. Marche boche
09. Kleine Fee (Little Sprite)
10. Verstecktes Lied (Hidden Song)
11. Wiederkehrender Traum (Recurring Dream)
12. Ohnmächtiges Wüten (Impotent Raging)
13. Präludium (Prelude)
14. Zwei Stimmen (Two Voices)
15. Capriccio: Die Zeit verrinnt (Time runs Out)
16. Zwei Stimmen (Two Voices)
17. Postludium: Was bleibt (Postlude: What Remains)
18. Leb wohl… (Farewell…)