Jason Fisher

Violist Jason Fisher is a founding member of A Far Cry. A Carnegie Hall Fellow and a Peabody Singapore Fellow, he has toured Europe and given concerts at Vienna Musikverein, Singapore Esplanade, The Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall. Jason has performed with Pink Martini, Jake Shimabukuro, Itzakh Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Kiri Te Kanawa, and with members of the Florestan Trio, and the Æolus, Brentano, Cleveland, Emerson, Mendelssohn, and St. Lawrence String Quartets. Principal violist of Boston Baroque, Jason plays period viola with the Handel and Haydn Society, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, Seattle and Portland Baroque Orchestras, and many others. He is on viola faculty at The Rivers School Conservatory where he also serves as Director of the Chamber Music Lab. Jason plays on an English viola by Richard Duke, 1768, as well as a copy of that instrument in period setup by Timothy Johnson.