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June 22nd - June 26th, 2022 BGFEST XVII: "TOWARDS THE LIGHT"
BGFest XVII will continue the online successes of BGFest XV and XVI (virtual events held in 2020 and 2021) but in 2022 a significant portion of BGFest XVII will be held in person. Two major competitions, one for guitar performance and one for composition, will help build enthusiasm towards an exciting 5 day live- whenever- possible event in Boston. We will continue to use the facilities of the New England Conservatory, but In 2022 all administration of the Festival will shift from NEC to the international and polyglot Eliot Fisk Guitar Academy (“EFGA”) team, most of whom are already experienced veterans of previous Boston GuitarFest events.
COVID Guidlines
These are the guidelines provided by New England Conservatory. All participants are subjects to these guidelines during Boston GuitarFest XVII.
- NEC requires all program faculty, staff, and students ages 5 and above to be fully vaccinated and boosted for COVID-19.
- NEC requires all program faculty, staff, and students living on campus to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test administered no more than 72 hours prior to arrival to campus.
- Masking requirements are in the process of being lifted for all persons on campus who are fully vaccinated.
- Distancing requirements between ensemble members have been lifted.
- Event duration restrictions and ventilation periods have been lifted, with the exception of the following:
- All performances taking place on the NEC campus are restricted to 90 minutes total, without intermission.
- Audience members for all performances must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination at the point of entry to all events.
These details are subject to change at any time in accordance with guidelines from the CDC and city and state regulations.
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Every effort will be made to maintain BGFest XVII as described herewith, but programs may be subject to change in response to circumstances beyond control of the Festival.
BGFest XVII: "Towards the Light" MASTER CLASSES
Meng Su
Classical Guitarist
Meng Su
Classical Guitarist
Su Meng (苏萌; born 1988) is a classical guitarist. She was born in Qingdao, Shandong. She started studying classical guitar in 1997 under the tuition of Chen Zhi of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2006 she was under full scholarship of Manuel Barrueco of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. She has also performed in a quartet formation with Wang Yameng, Li Jie, and Chen Shanshan (Four Angels). Currently she is concertizing as a soloist and also in duo with Wang Yameng, as the Beijing Guitar Duo.
Friday, June 24th 2-5PM (EDT)
Oscar Ghiglia
Classical Guitarist
Oscar Ghiglia
Classical Guitarist
Born: August 13, 1938 - Livorno (Leghorn), Italy
The Italian guitarist, Oscar Ghiglia (pronounced "GHEE-lyah" with the hard G), was born of an artistic family - his father and grandfather were both famed painters and his mother an accomplished pianist. Oscar Ghiglia had to choose between a path strewn with brushes and colours and a world cut into harmony and melody. Though his early choice produced a few hundred water colours and a number of oil paintings, he soon realised music was his way. For this decision he thanks his father, who one day made him pose for a painting showing a guitarist. For this he had to hold his father’s guitar, a companion to his artistic musings in front of his forming works. This painting was the start to a lifetime of disciplined dedication to music.
At the age of fourteen young Oscar Ghiglia decided to study classical guitar at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, where he won certificates of honour not only in guitar but also in theoretical subjects as well. In 1957 he began study with the Spanish guitar master Andrés Segovia at the Academia Chigiana in Siena and at Santiago de Compostela in Spain (1958-1963). Segovia was his major influence and inspiration during his formative years. The young guitarist has also studied with Venezuelan virtuoso Alirio Díaz.
Oscar Ghiglia's graduation from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in 1962 was followed by several important awards: 1stPrize at the Orense Guitar Competition, 1st Prize at the Santiago de Compostela Guitar Competition (1963) and 1st Prize at the International Guitar Competition of Radio France (ORTF) (1963, Unanimous Winner). After the latter winning, he received scholarship to the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where he studied music history with Jacques Chailley in 1963-1964. Andrés Segovia chose Oscar Ghiglia as his assistant for classes at the University of California in Berkeley in the summer of 1964.
Since then, Oscar Ghiglia has given numerous concerts and master-classes throughout the world. He made his first tours to the USA and Japan in 1964-1965, and his British debut in 1966. In addition to appearing extensively in all parts of North and South America and Europe (Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands), he is a frequent performer in the Far East, Turkey, Israel, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Besides touring as a solo performer, Oscar Ghiglia has played and recorded with such names as singers Victoria de Los Angeles, Jan DeGaetani, Gerald English, John McCollum; flutists as Jean-Pierre Rampal and Julius Baker; ensembles as the Juilliard String Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet, the Cleveland String Quartet, the Quartetto d’archi di Venezia and the Tokyo String Quartet; violinists as Giuliano Carmignola, Franco Gulli, Salvatore Accardo and Regis Pasquier; violists such as B. Giuranna, and P. Zuckerman; cellists as K. Adam, A. Roman and L. Varga; guitarists such as Eliot Fisk, S. Fukuda, Loretta Guerra, Antigoni Goni, and Elena Papandreou. Oscar Ghiglia was a founding member of the International Classic Guitar Quartet (with, in different turns: Benjamin Bunch, O. Koga, Anders Miolin, S. Schmidt, and Andreas von Wangenheim).
While being active as a concert artist, Oscar Ghiglia has always favoured teaching as a sister profession, and spreading his own teaching around the five continents. Very few well-known guitarists today have not at one time or another been in his classes and profited from his lessons. In 1969 he founded the Guitar Department at the Aspen Music Festival (Aspen, Colorado USA) and taught there for twenty years. He also founded the Festival de Musique des Arcs and the “Incontri Chitarristici di Gargnano”, and have been artist in residence, or visiting professor in such centres as the Cincinnati and San Francisco conservatories, the Juilliard School, the Hartt School, University of Hartford, the Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois, and the Banff Centre of the Arts in Canada (from 1978). In all these centres and elsewhere Ghiglia has been nurturing talents and forming or perfecting young artists' musical outlook and interpretation. In 1976 he “inherited” Segovia’s class in Siena's Accademia Chigiana. From 1983 to 2004 he was professor of guitar at the Basel Music-Akademie where he taught post-graduate students. He now regularly gives summer classes in Europe (at the Festival d'Arc in southern France, at the Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy, and at the Festival Garnanno, Italy), America and the Middle East. Founder of the International Guitar Competition of Gargnano (Italy), Ghiglia boasts a very high number of first prize winners among his students, in competitions around the world.
Oscar Ghiglia has recorded for Angel and Nonesuch Records. His recordings include "Paganini Sonata", "The Guitar in Spain", "The Spanish Guitar of Oscar Ghiglia", and numerous others. Presently, after his newest CD “Manuel Ponce’ Guitar music”, a new set of recording projects is under way (note a J.S. Bach lute works CD, in the final editing process)
Saturday June 25th 10-1PM (EDT)
BGFest XVII: "Towards the Light" TICKET: GALA CONCERT
Ticket: Saturday, June 25th
$40
"Toward the Light" Gala Concert - Eliot Fisk & Cassatt String Quartet
In person & livestream
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GET YOUR TICKET NOW! CONCERT PLANS
Ticket: Wednesday, June 22nd
$0
YGW Faculty & BGFest 2021 Competition Winner Concert
In person & livestream
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Ticket: Friday, June 24th
$0
BGFest XVII Academy Performance Competition: Final Round
In person & livestream
FREE
Ticket: Sunday, June 26TH
$ 0
BGFest XVII Closing Event: Registered Students & Competition's Winner
In person & livestream
FREE
GET YOUR AUDITOR PASS NOW! AUDITOR PASSES: ONLINE AND IN-PERSON
IN-PERSON AUDITOR PASS
$150
BGFest XVII welcomes auditors to attend all of our workshops, masterclasses, events, and concerts through Zoom and/or live streams.
In person & livestream
Purchase
ONLINE AUDITOR PASS
$100
BGFest XVII welcomes auditors to attend all of our workshops, masterclasses, events, and concerts through Zoom and/or live streams. All event recordings are also available for up to 30 days.
Livestream
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BGFest XVII: "Towards the Light" WORLD PREMIERE
GALA EVENT
Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at 8 pm
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
World premiere of new work composed for Eliot Fisk and the Cassatt Quartet by Daniel Strong Godfrey
Cassatt Quartet
String Quartet
Cassatt Quartet
String Quartet
Acclaimed as one of America's outstanding ensembles, the Manhattan based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East, with appearances in London for the Sapphire Jubilee Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, New York's Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Tanglewood Music Theater, the Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the Theatre des Champs - in Paris and Maeda Hall in Tokyo. The Quartet has been presented on major radio stations such as National Public Radio's Performance Today, Boston's WGBH, New York's WQXR and WNYC, and on Canada's CBC Radio and Radio France.
Formed in 1985 with the encouragement of the Juilliard Quartet, the Cassatt initiated and served as the inaugural participants in Juilliard's Young Artists Quartet Program. Their numerous awards include a Tanglewood Chamber Music Fellowship, the Wardwell Chamber Music Fellowship at Yale (where they served as teaching assistants to the Tokyo Quartet), First Prizes at the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions, two top prizes at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, two CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, a recording grant from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and commissioning grants from Meet the Composer and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2004, they were selected for the centennial celebration of the Coleman Chamber Music Association in Pasadena, California.
Daniel Strong Godfrey
Composer
Daniel Strong Godfrey
Composer
Daniel Strong Godfrey has earned awards and commissions from the J.S.Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, among many others. His music has been performed by soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music (on the Maine coast) and is co-author of Music Since 1945, published by Schirmer Books. Godfrey's works are recorded on Albany, Bridge, CRI, GM, Innova, Klavier, Koch, and Mark compact discs. His music is available through publishers Carl Fischer and G.Schirmer.
BGFest XVII: "Towards the Light" BILL FRISELL
An exclusive conversation with the legendary Bill Frisell.
BGFest XVII: "Towards the Light" SCHEDULE
8:00 AM- 8:30 AM
International Academy: Welcome reception
Eliot Fisk
Zoom
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
International Academy: Performance class
Zaira Meneses
Zoom
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
International Academy: Private lessons
Zoom
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In person: Check-in
New England Conservatory, Boston
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
In person: Welcome reception
Keller Room, NEC
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Guitar Ensemble
Scott Borg
Live, Brown Hall
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Dinner break
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Concert: YGW Faculty & BGFest 2021 Competition Winner
Thatcher Harrison, Ria Modak, Alex Romanov, and BGFest XVI competition winner Jiujiu Wu
Live and Online, Burnes Hall, NEC
8:00 am - 9:00 am
International Academy: Performance class
Zoom
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Private lessons
Live or Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Academy: Workshop 1
Live and Zoom
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Continuing Education: Workshop
Live and Zoom
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch break
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Eliot Fisk Masterclass
Eliot Fisk
Live and Zoom, Burnes Hall, NEC
5 - 6:30 PM
Dinner break
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Conversation with Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
Live and Zoom
8:00 PM
Concert: BGFest XVII Academy Faculty
Dr. Jérôme Mouffe
Live and Online, Burnes Hall, NEC
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
International Academy: Performance class
Zoom
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Private lessons
Live or Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Academy Workshop 2
Live and Zoom
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Continuing Education: Workshop 2
Live and Zoom
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch break
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Meng Su Masterclass
Meng Su
Live and Zoom
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Guitar Ensemble
Scott Borg
Live, Brown Hall
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dinner break
8:00 PM
BGFest XVII Academy Performance Competition: Final Round
Live and Zoom
8:00 AM- 9:00 AM
International Academy: Performance class
Zoom
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Private lessons
Live or Zoom
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Oscar Ghiglia Master Class
Oscar Ghiglia
Live and Zoom
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch break
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Academy: Workshop 3
Live and Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Continuing Education: Workshop 3
Live and Zoom
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Eliot Fisk & Cassatt Quartet open dress rehearsal
Cassatt Quartet
Jordan Hall
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Guitar Ensemble
Scott Borg
Live, Brown Hall
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dinner Break
8:00 PM
"Toward the Light" Gala Concert
Eliot Fisk
World premiere: quintet for guitar and string quartet by Daniel Strong Godfrey, and works by Turina, Rochberg, and Boccherini
Eliot Fisk and Cassatt String Quartet
BGFest XVII Academy Performance Competition winners announced
Jordan Hall
8:00 am - 9:00 am
International Academy: Performance class
Zoom
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Private lessons
Live or Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Academy and Continuing Education: Workshop
Eliot Fisk
Eliot Fisk: “Guitar Aerobics and the Poetry of Technique”
Live and Zoom
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch break
2 - 3 PM
Guitar Ensemble dress rehearsal
Scott Borg
Live, Burnes Hall
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert: BGFest 2022 Participant & First Prize Winner (Academy Performance Competition)
World premiere: BGFest XVII Composition Competition works by YGW faculty
Live and Online, Jordan Hall
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Closing reception
Live and Zoom, Keller Room, NEC
BGFest XVII: "Towards the Light" A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE
A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE
BGFest XVII: Toward the Light
Boston GuitarFest was founded by Eliot Fisk, Zaira Meneses, and Steve Lin at the New England Conservatory of Music in 2006. Since its inception, it has aimed to become an international, cross disciplinary, outward-looking festival.
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Venue
New England Conservatory of Music
290 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
United States
Administration
Name: EFGA
Email: z@efgamusic.org
Event Coordinator
Name: Maurice Liu
Email: mauriceliu@efgamusic.orgm