MANSFIELD, PA— Internationally recognized music director, conductor and pianist Rob Fisher will visit Mansfield University and lead a variety of workshops with Music students on November 22 and 23.
The following sessions are free and open to the public:
Sunday, November 22, 7 p.m., Steadman Theatre: Fisher will work with MU student soloists.
Monday, November 23, 11:30 a.m., Steadman Theatre: Fisher will conduct a coaching session with the MU Concert Choir.
Monday, November 23 at 7 p.m., Butler Center, Room 163: “Auditioning for Broadway!”
Fisher’s experience in American music and musical theatre is vast. He has been a guest of almost every major orchestra in the country as conductor or pianist.
At Carnegie Hall in 2012, with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Fisher has led gala performances of Guys and Dolls and The Sound of Music, where 32 Mansfield University students provided the nuns’ choruses. 
With the New York Philharmonic, he has conducted the acclaimed concert versions of Carousel and My Fair Lady, as well as Mr. Keillor at 70.
As a pianist, Fisher has been soloist for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F with orchestras across the country.
In addition to collaborating in concert with such artists as Renée Fleming, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O’Hara, Victoria Clark, Idina Menzel, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and David Hyde Pierce, he conducted the San Francisco Symphony in the Emmy-winning concert production of Sweeney Todd starring Patti LuPone and George Hearn.
Fisher was also the founding music director and conductor of the New York City Center Encores! series from its inception in 1994 until 2005. He has made numerous recordings for Encores! including the Grammy Award-winning Chicago cast album. He is supervising music director for Chicago productions worldwide.
Fisher also served as music supervisor for the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Anything Goes. His Carousel with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall was broadcast on PBS “Live from Lincoln Center” and earned him an Emmy nomination.
Most recently, he adapted, arranged, and supervised the musical score for the Tony Award-winning musical, An American in Paris!
For four seasons, Fisher was music director for Garrison Keillor’s “American Radio Company,” and remains a frequent guest on “A Prairie Home Companion.”