Abby Fisher is a percussionist focused on performing and supporting continued growth of new music, and has expertise in contemporary, classical, and African (Ewe) percussion.
Recent notable performances include presenting Lawton Hall’s work All Your Thens for Now at a 2015 TEDx talk, performing at the 2016 New Music Gathering at the Peabody Institute, performing and teaching at the 2016 Festival Internacional de Músicas y Artes Sonoras Contemporáneas (Cuenca, Ecuador),performing at the 2011 and 2013 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, and performing at the opening of the Observatory Deck at One World Trade Center (NYC).
Abby is a Visiting Lecturer in Percussion at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville, and is the Director of Operations for the nief-norf Contemporary Chamber Music Organization and Summer Music Festival (Knoxville, TN). Abby is an artist for the Heartland Marimba Quartet, and served as a faculty member for the 2017 Heartland Marimba Festival Academy. In 2016, Abby was a percussion performance fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival.
Upcoming performances include: Lawton Hall's All Your Thens for Now (for solo vibraphone, speaking voice, and camera) and Aurél Holló's Gamelan-bound/ beFORe JOHN2 with Ensemble Knox at the 2017 PASIC Focus Day; Mark Applebaum's Gone, Dog. Gone! with the Fisher/Lau Project at the 2017 Transplanted Roots Percussion Symposium in Brisbane, Australia.
Abby received her Doctorate in Musical Arts at Stony Brook University, where she studied with Eduardo Leandro and served as a teaching assistant for the ethnomusicology department. She received her Master of Music in Percussion Performance from NYU and Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from Lawrence University.
Abby is a Young Artist endorser for Vic Firth sticks and mallets.
Recent notable performances include presenting Lawton Hall’s work All Your Thens for Now at a 2015 TEDx talk, performing at the 2016 New Music Gathering at the Peabody Institute, performing and teaching at the 2016 Festival Internacional de Músicas y Artes Sonoras Contemporáneas (Cuenca, Ecuador),performing at the 2011 and 2013 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, and performing at the opening of the Observatory Deck at One World Trade Center (NYC).
Abby is a Visiting Lecturer in Percussion at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville, and is the Director of Operations for the nief-norf Contemporary Chamber Music Organization and Summer Music Festival (Knoxville, TN). Abby is an artist for the Heartland Marimba Quartet, and served as a faculty member for the 2017 Heartland Marimba Festival Academy. In 2016, Abby was a percussion performance fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival.
Upcoming performances include: Lawton Hall's All Your Thens for Now (for solo vibraphone, speaking voice, and camera) and Aurél Holló's Gamelan-bound/ beFORe JOHN2 with Ensemble Knox at the 2017 PASIC Focus Day; Mark Applebaum's Gone, Dog. Gone! with the Fisher/Lau Project at the 2017 Transplanted Roots Percussion Symposium in Brisbane, Australia.
Abby received her Doctorate in Musical Arts at Stony Brook University, where she studied with Eduardo Leandro and served as a teaching assistant for the ethnomusicology department. She received her Master of Music in Percussion Performance from NYU and Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from Lawrence University.
Abby is a Young Artist endorser for Vic Firth sticks and mallets.
