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Guy Fishman

Guy Fishman

Education and Training

BM, Manhattan School of Music; BA SUNY-Purchase; DMA, New England Conservatory. Studies with David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Julia Lichten, Laurence Lesser, Anner Bylsma. Recordings on CORO, Centaur, Telarc, Titanic.

Awards and Recognition

Principal Cellist, Handel and Haydn Society

Fulbright Fellowship, 2005

Guy Fishman

Division: College

Department: Chamber Music

Instrument: Cello

Guy Fishman is active as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. He is principal cellist of the Handel and Haydn Society, with which he made his Symphony Hall solo debut in 2005. He is in demand as an early music specialist in the United States and Europe, having performed as principal cellist and with Tafelmusik, Seraphic Fire, Consone String Quartet, Arcadia Players, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Querelle des Bouffons, Emmanuel Music, the Boston Museum Trio, Boulder Bach Festival, El Mundo, and with Boston Baroque and Apollo’s Fire, among others. He has recently been named co-artistic director of the Bach Akademie Charlotte in Charlotte, NC. Fishman has appeared in recital with Dawn Upshaw, Mark Peskanov, Eliot Fisk, Richard Eggar, Lara St. John, Gil Kalish, Kim Kashkashian, and Natalie Merchant. His playing has been praised as “plangent” by the Boston Globe, “electrifying” by the New York Times, and “beautiful....noble” by the Boston Herald, and “dazzling” by the Portland Press Herald. The Boston Musical Intelligencer related having “…heard greater depth in [Haydn concerto] than I have in quite some time.”

Mr. Fishman has recorded for the Olde Focus, CORO, Telarc, Centaur, Titanic, and Newport Classics labels.  Recordings of sonatas by Andrea Caporale and duos for cello and bass were warmly received. Vivaldi cello concerti with members of the Handel and Haydn Society were called “brilliant” by the Huffington Post and “a feast for the ears” by Early Music America, which remarked on the “exuberance…adroit sense of phrasing and extraordinary technique…grace and agility” found in his recording with H+H of the cello concerti by CPE Bach. 
 
Mr. Fishman studied with David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Julia Lichten, and Laurence Lesser, with whom he completed Doctoral studies at the New England Conservatory of Music. He now serves on the faculty there. In addition, he is a Fulbright Fellow, having worked with famed Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma in Amsterdam. He plays a rare cello made in Rome in 1704 by David Tecchler.

Curriculum Vitae

BM, Manhattan School of Music; BA SUNY-Purchase; DMA, New England Conservatory. Studies with David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Julia Lichten, Laurence Lesser, Anner Bylsma. Recordings on CORO, Centaur, Telarc, Titanic.

  • Principal Cellist, Handel and Haydn Society
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 2005