"His scholarship, technique, and intelligent musicianship are plainly evident and the beauty of his tone is consistently compelling." - Guitar Review

"Oren Fader, a guitarist, played with confidence and style. " -The New York Times

"Indeed, Oren is a guitarist who seems to have his hand in just about everything interesting."- Nylon Review

New! Oren reveived great reviews in the New York Times three times this year!
Go to the Press Page to read.

New! Action photo from the New York Times review of Fireworks Ensemble at Bargemusic.

Oren Fader is distinguished as a performer of classical guitar repertoire, both traditional and contemporary. He has performed hundreds of concerts in the U.S., Europe and Asia with a wide range of classical and new music groups, including the Met Chamber Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mark Morris Dance Group, New World Symphony, Absolute Ensemble, and Speculum Musicae.
A champion of new music, he has premiered over 150 works with guitar. He also performs, tours and records with the ensembles Cygnus, Fireworks, Poetica Musica, and Glass Farm. Recent engangements include a three week tour performing in Turkey (Istanbul International Festival), Azerbaijan , and Tajikistan (US State Dept.), and the past two summers at the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he performed works of Carter, Davidovsky and Chin.
Mr. Fader can be heard on over 30 commercial recordings and film, including the classical guitar parts for the recent film “Everything is Illuminated.” His latest solo recordings include “Another's Fandango”, featuring 500 years of guitar music, and “First Flight”, a disc of 10 premiere solos written for Mr. Fader by New York City composers. Since 1994, Mr. Fader has been on the guitar and chamber music faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.

Upcoming Concerts:

January 6 , 2010 8:00 pm
Avian Music
Chamber Rock for the 21st Century ; works of Gandolfi, Belcastro, and Laganella
The Cell 338 W. 23rd Street New York, NY

January 10, 2010 5:00 pm
Met Chamber Ensemble James Levine, Director
Elliott Carter; Syringa
Also works of Babbitt and Strauss
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC

January 16, 2010 3:00 pm
Fireworks Ensemble
Chamber Music America Showcase
CMA'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Westin New York at Times Square

January 22, 2010 8:00 pm
Oren Fader and Christopher Creviston, guitar and saxophone duo
New Works, inlcuding the premiere of J.A. Lennon's"Spiral Mirrors"
Greenwich House Music School , 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY

For more info check out the Schedule Page

New! Oren is in both Classical Guitar, and Guitar Review magazines this month.
The Classical Guitar article is a profile of me, and making a living as a classical and new music guitarist in New York City, and the Guitar Review article is a remembrance of Thomas Humphrey, the great guitar luthier, on his recent passing. To read both articles, see News.

New! Oren on Youtube: playing Elliott Carter's "Changes, for solo guitar" .
Click here for video.

New! Oren in the NY Times review of Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music.

Other News:

--Oren performing Elliott Carter's "Luimen", at Tanglewood. Click here for video.

--Oren recently performed Boulez's masterpiece, “Le Marteau Sans Maître” at the Juilliard Percussion Seminar. The New York Times said "Oren Fader, a guitarist, played with confidence and style". For the entire review click here.

--Glass Farm Ensemble has a new recording, "In Four", on Innova. Works by Andriessen, Herbert, Hoffman, Heiniger, and Troxler. Click Here for details.

Gramophone Magazine: "The musicians of the Glass Farm Ensemble play all of these works with what seams to be endless reserves of virtuosity and panache. The group includes... Oren Fader, who draws from his electric guitar both subtle nuances and earsplitting explosions."

Oren is on a new cd with soprano Courtenay Budd. For info Click Here

Oren's group the Fireworks Ensemble recently paid homage to Frank Zappa in a sold out concert at New York's Miller Theatre. Read the review in the New York Times. See a video clip of the show here.

Click here for my Myspace page

Click here for my Facebook page

To read about news, recordings, and concerts, go to the News Page.

The New York City Classical Guitar Society recently interviewed Oren Fader for their online magazine, Nylon Review. To read the interview click here.

Mr. Fader can be heard on over 25 commercial recordings. His latest solo releases include "Another's Fandango", featuring 500 years of guitar music, and "First Flight", a disc of 10 premier solos written for Mr. Fader by New York City composers.
Since 1994, Mr. Fader has been on the guitar and chamber music faculty of the Manhattan School of Music

For a Full Bio Click Here