BOSTON GUITARFEST 2007 FACULTY
   
A creative innovator linked to the great romantic tradition of the past, guitarist Eliot Fisk is one of the most exciting and unique artists before the public today.  Known world wide for his adventurous repertoire and willingness to take art music into unusual venues (including schools, senior centers and even prisons!) he belongs, as his great mentor Andrés Segovia once wrote, “at the top line of our artistic world.”

In June of 2006, by order of King Juan Carlos of Spain, Eliot Fisk was awarded the Cruz of Isabel la Cátolica for his service to the cause of Spanish music. Earlier recipients of this rarely bestowed honor include Andrés Segovia and Yehudi Menuhin.

In 2008 he begins a long anticipated collaboration with legendary virtuoso Angel Romero in a program to include a newly commissioned work for two guitars by Leonardo Balada as well as new Fisk transcriptions for two guitars of works by Scarlatti and others.

Eliot Fisk is founder and director of Boston Guitar Fest, an annual event held in the month of June at the New England Conservatory. This workshop is dedicated to exploring new and exciting technical and musical possibilities of the guitar within a broadly international cultural context.

For more please visit www.eliotfisk.com
Bruce Holzman, Associate Professor of Guitar at Florida State University, Tallahassee, is a graduate of the High School of Performing Arts and New York University. His teachers have included Gustavo Lopez (Mexico), Rodrigo Riera (Venezuela), and Albert Valdes Blaine (Cuba). He has been a performer in the master classes of Oscar Ghiglia at the Aspen Music Festival and at the Academia Chigianna, Sienna, Italy. He has also been a performer in the master classes of Alirio Diaz at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada; and in Caracas, Venezuela. He has been an auditor in the master classes of Jose Tomas and Pepe Romero. Mr. Holzman's students have won many awards and prizes, and hold positions at numerous universities and colleges.

Holzman has been on the faculties of The Toronto Guitar Fest, The Boston Guitar Fest, The Stetson Guitar Workshop, the Eastman Guitar Fest, and the Domaine Forget Academy of Music and Dance, Québéc, Canada. He has given master classes nationwide. Mr. Holzman has been on the Board of Advisors of the Guitar Foundation of America. He has been an adjudicator for the 42nd International Music Competition of the ARD, Munich, Germany, The American String Teachers Association, the Schadt String Competition, and The Guitar Foundation of America.

Please visit Mr. Holzman's FSU Faculty site for more information.
Rene Izquierdo graduated from the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of Art in Havana, where he studied with renowned guitarist Jesus Ortega. After his arrival in the United States, he graduated from Yale University School of Music, where he studied with Benjamin Verdery and obtained a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma degree in 2001 and was awarded the Eliot Fisk Prize to an outstanding guitarist. He has studied with Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Shin-Ichi Fukuda, Eli Kastner, Pepe Romero, Angel Romero, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, David Starobin, Eduardo Fernandez, Jorge Morel, Robert Beaser and Anthony Newman. Mr. Izquierdo is currently recording his debut CD with Luthier Music Corporation.

Mr. Izquierdo is currenetly professor of guitar at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. For more please visit Mr. Izquierdo's MySpace page.
Joaquin Clerch was born in 1965 in Havana and from childhood studied the guitar with Leopoldina Nuñez. He continued his study at the National School of Arts and then at the Instituto Superior de Arte. His teachers were Marta Cuervo, Antonio Rodriguez, Rey Guerra, Costas Cotsiolis, Leo Brouwer and for composition Carlos Farrinas among others. In 1990 he began his training in Salzburg with a Mozarteum scholarship, where he studied the guitar with Eliot Fisk, early music with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Anthony Spiri and contemporary music with Oswald Salaberger. He completed his studies with the highest award in 1991, receiving the prize which the Cultural Ministry of Austria grants to the best graduates.

Joaquin Clerch has appeared in concerts in Paris, Tokyo, Munich,Frankfurt, Brussels, Athens, Toronto, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Belgrade, Istanbul and Salzburg, among other places. He has collaborated as a soloist with such well-known orchestras as the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Slovak Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. With the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria under Adrian Leaper, he made the first recording of two guitar concertos dedicated to him by Leo Brouwer (Concierto de la Habana, 1998) and Carlos Fariñas (Concierto, 1996). Since 1999, Joaquín Clerch has been professor of guitar at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.

Thanks in part to assistance from the office of Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank, Boston GuitarFest was able to obtain a rare visa for the legendary Cuban Guitarist Joaquin Clerch. Clerch was a favorite protégé of Leo Brouwer, who dedicated Concierto de la Habana (1998) to him. Clerch was also the assistant of Eliot Fisk at the Mozarteum Salzburg from 1989 – 1999. This represents Clerch’s debut in the United States.
Through patience, dedication and results, Dmitri Goryachev has earned the nickname, "guru of technique" throughout the Great Boston area. He is a seasoned teacher who brings a wealth of experience and a clear understanding to the pedagogy of the art of guitar technique. Dmitri Goryachev began teaching the guitar to his two sons Sergei and Grigory when they were children. Grigory "Grisha" continued his love affair with flamenco and his appearances world wide as a soloist is a tribute to Dmitri's teaching philosophies. (To hear Grisha perform please visit www.grishagoryachev.com)

"He is an absolutely brilliant analyst of technique, and has some very original, fascinating, obviously very efficacious ideas." - - Eliot Fisk
 
 
 
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