Heidi Schmidt and Klaus Wolfgang Wildner met Eliot Fisk in Salzburg on December 18, 2004.
The meeting took place at the hotel Altstadt, which is located directly at the Salzach river. Eliot Fisk had already avowed himself to an active cooperation within the Foundation curatorship before this Salzburg meeting. Fisk emphasized the importance of the formation of the Foundation and he is convinced that important impulses will emerge from this association. Especially the necessity of international networking and bundling competence in the scope of guitaristic was discussed. The foundation staff and making use of up-to-date communication technologies fully meet the requirements for being able to reliably manage the vast management and communication processes.

Eliot Fisk appreciates the conception of the Foundation university, which features an up-to-date, project-orientated and interdisciplinary concept. He is delighted to be available for projects to be commissioned or produced by the Foundation. One of his special concerns is to give to a broad audience an understanding of the classical guitar. At that, he pursues undogmatic and innovative ways, because it´s especially the persons who are not familiar with classical music who he wants to give an understanding of the beauty and the musical possibilities of the classical guitar. With Eliot Fisk, the Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation gains an outstanding artist and representative of the classical guitar, a very experienced and especially competent teacher who knows how to convince by means of enormous energy and joy. Heidi Schmidt and Klaus Wolfgang Wildner gained a precious friend.

Already, ample guitar playing is a tradition when Foundation members meet. Eliot Fisk was pleased with the opportunity of playing three guitars of Klaus Wolfgang Wildner´s collection. He played for more than one hour in the hotel room. The performance exeeded trying out some guitars by far, that´s how many hotel guests (not familiar with classical music) could be reached by the fine art of playing the guitar. He had much fun in playing a quint bass guitar from the Hermann Hauser I workshop, manufactured in 1924.

We are very much looking forward to the groundbreaking projects we will launch together.

December 20, 2004
Klaus Wolfgang Wildner, Heidi Schmidt



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