International Academy

Boston GuitarFest XX

The all online “International Academy" of Boston GuitarFest is a joint production of the Eliot Fisk Guitar Academy and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In the year 2025 the International Academy will take place on May 30/31 and June 6/7.

The all-online International Festival will be taught once again by a quartet of disciples of Eliot Fisk teaching from Europe with simultaneous live translators from around the world.

The artist teacher faculty of the online program will include Cecilio Perera, and Kostas Tosidis (both former assistants of Eliot Fisk at the “Mozarteum” University, Salzburg), Chilean virtuoso and master of popular Latin American styles, Danilo Cabaluz, and the marvelous and versatile Antigoni Baxe. All are experienced teachers offering a wide variety of skills and specialization. A mixture of individual lessons, performance classes, and specialized lectures and seminars covering a wide variety of guitar styles and advanced techniques will be offered.

Eliot Fisk will teach online classes on May 31 and June 7, while Jérôme Mouffe will teach May May 30 and June 6. As both Eliot and Jérôme are on the faculty of New England Conservatory, this event continues a long tradition of collaboration between NEC and the Shanghai Conservatory and the distinguished NEC alumnus and professor of guitar, Zhenqi Min.

International Academy participants receive:

• Two private lessons with our BGFest XX International Academy faculty including but not limited to Cecilio Perera, Kostas Tosidis, Danilo Cabaluz, Antigoni Baxe, all honored graduates of Eliot Fisk’s famous guitar class at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria.
• Option to perform in the Performance classes taught at the end of each day by Eliot Fisk and Jérôme Mouffe
• Live Chinese-English translation available for private lessons and performance classes is available as needed

*Every effort will be made to accommodate student-teacher preferences.