FEATURED NEWS: ELIOT FISK
LIVE from St. Mark's, San Francisco - Omni Foundation
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.
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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)
Artyom Dervoed
Classical Guitarist
Artyom Dervoed
Classical Guitarist
Artyom Dervoed is the head of the classical guitar department at the Bashmet Center in Moscow and teaches a select group of young players at the prestigious Gnessin Academy as well as the Moscow State University of Culture & Arts. He is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of the annual Guitar Virtuosi Moscow International Festival, presented by the Moscow Philharmonic at the Tchaikovsky Hall. Its programs feature Sergio and Odair Assad, Boris Berezovsky and other international stars in solo, chamber and orchestral performances, including Russian and world premieres of new guitar repertoire, all of which are streamed online. Mr. Dervoed’s performance of his own transcription of Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Fabio Mastrangelo.
Saturday, June 25th 2-5PM (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
$20
YGW Faculty & BGFest 2021 Competition Winner Concert
In person & livestream
Purchase
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 - 6:00 PM
In person: Welcome reception
Keller Room, NEC
6:00 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 1
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
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Dinner break
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
5:00 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
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Private lessons
Live or Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Academy: Workshop 3
Live and Zoom
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Continuing Education: Workshop 3
Live and Zoom
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch break
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Artyom Dervoed Master Class
Artyom Dervoed
Live and Zoom
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Eliot Fisk & Cassatt Quartet open dress rehearsal
Cassatt Quartet
Jordan 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
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