Jerrold Fisher

Who is Jerrold Fisher?

Jerrold Fisher is an American composer, conductor, singer, arranger and musician. In 1970 he was Acting Music Director and Conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra for seven seasons. 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.

Jerrold 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.

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 John Philip 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. Jerrold also composed "Songs of Youth and Discovery," a five-part song cycle written with lyrics by Lawrence Leritz, which premiered in 2007 at the Sherman Theatre in Shroudsburg, PA. by the Pocono Choral Society.