Hailed by the Boston Globe as “having superior chops backed up by assured musicianship”, saxophonist Eliot Gattegno (b.1983) enjoys a multi-faceted international career as a soloist and chamber musician. He began studying music at the age of two and at seventeen made his debut in Boston’s Jordan Hall performing with Christopher O’Riley on the National Public Radio show “From the Top”. Since then musical activities have taken him throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America. Recent engagements include recitals at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, concertos and recordings with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and festival appearances at Spoleto, Tanglewood, and Yellow Barn. In 2008 Eliot was the first saxophonist and one of the only Americans to ever win the “Kranichsteiner Musikpreis” of the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik Darmstadt. He is a founder of various ensembles including “the kenners”, Second Instrumental Unit, Radnofsky Quartet, Grenzenlos, as well as being the Executive Director of World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund. A former Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University and faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School Eliot has presented lectures at Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of California, Berkeley. Eliot is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy where he received the Fine Arts Award and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees with academic honors and distinction in performance from the New England Conservatory where he received the Tourjee Alumni Award. Eliot can be heard on Albany, Cantaloupe, Innova, and Mode Records amongst others.
