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 and 2018 New Music Gatherings (Peabody Institute and Boston Conservatory), performing Mark Applebaum's Gone, Dog. Gone! with the Fisher/Lau Project at the 2017 Transplanted Roots Percussion Symposium (Brisbane, Australia), performing and teaching at the 2016 Festival Internacional de Músicas y Artes Sonoras Contemporáneas (Cuenca, Ecuador), performing at the 2011, 2013, and 2017 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, and performing at the opening of the Observatory Deck at One World Trade Center (NYC).
Abby was the Visiting Lecturer in Percussion at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville (Fall 2017), and is the Managing Director for the nief-norf Contemporary Chamber Music Organization and Summer Music Festival (Knoxville, TN).
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 and 2018 New Music Gatherings (Peabody Institute and Boston Conservatory), performing Mark Applebaum's Gone, Dog. Gone! with the Fisher/Lau Project at the 2017 Transplanted Roots Percussion Symposium (Brisbane, Australia), performing and teaching at the 2016 Festival Internacional de Músicas y Artes Sonoras Contemporáneas (Cuenca, Ecuador), performing at the 2011, 2013, and 2017 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, and performing at the opening of the Observatory Deck at One World Trade Center (NYC).
Abby was the Visiting Lecturer in Percussion at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville (Fall 2017), and is the Managing Director for the nief-norf Contemporary Chamber Music Organization and Summer Music Festival (Knoxville, TN).
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.