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Jerrold Fisher has an extensive background
in many aspects of music. In 1970 he was
Acting Music Director and Conductor of the
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (NY) and since then
has combined teaching, singing, and composing
with his substantial work as a conductor at the
professional, avocational, and educational
levels.
He was Assistant Conductor of the Haddonfield
Symphony Orchestra (NJ) for seven seasons, where
his primary conducting responsibilities were for
the orchestra's opera night gala production,
working hand-in-hand with Jerome Hines and his
Opera/Musical Theatre Institute for those
productions. He was instrumental in
instituting Haddonfield's "internship" program,
offering annual playing scholarships to talented
college and conservatory students – a prototype
program for regional and community orchestras
across the country and in
Canada.
Mr. Fisher has received numerous awards,
including grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts, The New York State Council on the
Arts, and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for
Music/The American Music Center.
He is a composer, arranger and orchestrator with
more than two dozen published works to his
credit. He has appeared on stage in many
roles, including Rodolpho in Verdi’s La
Traviata, the title role in Offenbach’s
Tales of Hoffman, and El Gallo in The
Fantasticks. He has been heard as
oratorio tenor soloist in works ranging from
Bach’s Mass in B Minor
and Handel’s Messiah through Carl Orff’s
Carmina Burana.
In addition to private conducting studies with
Karl Kritz, Mr. Fisher holds a B.S. degree in
Music Education from West Chester (PA), and has
completed graduate work in musicology, voice,
theatre, and music education at Syracuse
University and American University.
Mr. Fisher was Associate Conductor for the
Cincinnati Opera’s 1990 Summer Festival and is
the founder and artistic director of the Pocono
Pops Orchestra and Chorus. His
internationally acclaimed restoration of Sousa’s
The Glass Blowers premiered in July 2000 at
Glimmerglass Opera and opened at the New York
City Opera in April 2002. Mr. Fisher’s
original, commissioned work Love Songs
was performed by the combined voices of the
Pocono Choral Society and the University of
Scranton Singers in May 2004.
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