Guy Fishman has performed in chamber music recitals in Boston’s Jordan Hall and Sanders Theater, and Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, (le) Poisson Rouge, and BargeMusic in New York. He has appeared at the Tanglewood, Kneisel Hall, Chautauqua, Aston Magna, Connecticut Early Music, BBC Proms, and Musicorda festivals. He was a member of the New Fromm Players at Tanglewood, principal cellist of the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared on NPR broadcasts. His playing has been praised as “plangent” by the Boston Globe, “electrifying” by the New York Times, and “beautiful … noble” by the Boston Herald. A critic for the Boston Musical Intelligencer, listening to Guy’s recent performance of Haydn’s C-major concerto, related that he “… heard greater depth in this work than I have in quite some time.”

Guy Fishman has recorded for the CORO, Telarc, Centaur, Titanic, and Newport Classics labels. Recordings of sonatas by Andrea Caporale (world premiere, Centaur) and duos for cello & bass (Centaur) were warmly received. Forthcoming releases include Vivaldi cello concerti with the Handel and Haydn Society and the cello sonatas of Beethoven.

Fishman started playing the cello at age 12 and, at 16, began his Baccalaureate studies with David Soyer at the Manhattan School of Music. He is on the faculty at New England Conservatory and Bridgewater State University, and has given over a a dozen masterclasses in conservatories and universities across the country and abroad, including Boston University, Penn State, University of Toronto, and San Francisco Conservatory.

Fishman’s cello was made in Rome in 1704 by David Tecchler.