The North Dakota Museum of Art announces the last concert in the 2022 – 2023 Myra Foundation Presents Classical Music Series. World Renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk will perform in the Museum’s galleries on Sunday, May 14, 2 pm. Tickets available at ndmoa.com.

I consider Eliot Fisk as one of the most brilliant, intelligent and gifted young musical artists of our times, not only amongst guitarists but in all the general field of instrumentalists. His clear and flexible technique, his noble style of interpreting the beauty of the classic compositions as well as the colorful music of today, put him at the top line of our artistic world. – Andrés Segovia

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.” Fisk has performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Rochester Symphony, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Pro Arte Orchestra, and many others. He has also performed with a dizzying array of chamber music colleagues including flutist, Paula Robison; clarinetist, Richard Stoltzman; cellist Yehuda Hanani; violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Gidon Kremer and Joshua Bell, the Shanghai, Juilliard, Miro, Borromeo and Arditti String Quartets.

Eliot Fisk was the last direct pupil of Andrés Segovia and also studied interpretation with the legendary harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick at Yale University, from which he graduated “summa cum laude” in 1976, and where, directly following his own graduation in 1977, he founded the guitar department at the Yale School of Music. Described by one New York Times headline as a “Fiery Missionary to the Unconverted”, Eliot Fisk is Professor at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he teaches in 5 languages, and in Boston at the New England Conservatory where in 2010 he received the Krasner Award as “Teacher of the Year.”

This is Fisk’s first visit to Grand Forks. Sunday’s concert will include the music of Bach, Villa-Lobos, de Falla, Schubert, and others. Mr. Fisk will be joined onstage by Minot State University cellist Erik Anderson, who also helped organize Eliot Fisk’s North Dakota tour which has also received support from the Minot State University Advancement office, the Eliot Fisk Guitar Academy, the Division of Performing Arts and the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Minot State.

This series is underwritten by the Myra Foundation, with additional support from the Neel Foundation, and nearly 40 businesses and individuals in the community. This year’s series also successfully inaugurated the Monday Concerts in the Schools program which brought musicians to Schroeder and Valley Middle Schools, the Northwood Performing Arts Center, and Kelly, Lake Agassiz and Winship elementary schools.