Flutist Paula Robison and guitarist Eliot Fisk return to Cornell's Statler Auditorium for a joint recital that will include a performance of Robert Beaser's Mountain Songs, Friday, Feb. 9, at 8:15 p.m.
Robison and Fisk are longtime recital and recording partners whose technical brilliance, exciting performance style and wide ranging repertoire interests make them musical soul mates. The duo's last performance at Cornell, in February 1991, was sold out. Ticket prices for the Feb. 9 performance range from $22 to $11 and are on sale at the Lincoln Hall ticket office, (607) 255-5144.
Mountain Songs was written especially for Robison and Fisk. The MusicMasters recording garnered a Grammy nomination in 1987. The Cornell program also includes Astor Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango, transcriptions of works by Albeniz and Bach, and a solo flute sonata by Boismortier.
Robison and Fisk have crafted major careers by marrying their distinguished classi cal training -- Robison was a student of Marcel Moyse, Fisk of Andreas Segovia -- with exuberant, committed exploration of music from other cultures.
This season, Robison makes her second recording of Brazilian music with the NY ChoroBand while continuing her sold out Vivaldi concerto series at New York's Met ropolitan Museum of Art.
Fisk has explored diverse guitar traditions, appearing in concert with jazz guitar ist Joe Pass, flamenco guitarist Paco Pena, master of castanets Lucero Tena and Turk ish music specialist Burhan Ocal. A noted transcriber of music, Fisk transcribed all 24
of Paganini's Caprices, which are featured on a 1992 MusicMasters release. The recording rose to number 14 on the Billboard charts and was critically acclaimed around the country.
Robison and Fisk also have made major contributions to music education. Robison is the author of The Paula Robison Flute Warmups Book and Paula Robison Masterclass 1: Paul Hindemith among other publications, and Fisk is founder of the Andreas Segovia Institute at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Robison will conduct master classes at Ithaca College Thursday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m.