ROB FISHER
Master Class Artist

Rob Fisher specializes in classic musical theater. He was music director and conductor of the Tony Award-winning Encores! series at New York’s City Center from its inception in 1994 through 2005. This series has led to many recordings for which he has served as the conductor and associate producer.

The Broadway hits Chicago, Wonderful Town, and the more recent Apple Tree began at the Encores! series, and Mr. Fisher was instrumental in their successful transfer to Broadway; he remains supervising music director of companies of Chicago around the world.

He conducted the Grammy Award-winning Chicago cast recording and the recently released Wonderful Town recording. For four seasons, Mr. Fisher was music director for Garrison Keillor’s American Radio Company. He continues to be a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion. In 2000, he was the music director for the New York premiere of Sondheim’s Saturday Night. In 2001 he conducted Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with Patti LuPone, George Hearn, and the San Francisco Symphony, broadcast on PBS and available on DVD. This spring, he made his critically acclaimed New York Philharmonic debut, conducting My Fair Lady, and he has led many major U.S. orchestras.