Jason Fisher

Violist Jason Fisher is a founding member of A Far Cry, Boston's Grammy-nominated, self-directed chamber orchestra. Born in Seattle, Jason first picked up an instrument at age 11 in elementary school when the orchestra teacher told him they needed “somebody to play the viola.” He went on to study with Helen Callus, Victoria Chiang, Katherine Murdock, and Roger Tapping, and is a graduate of Peabody Conservatory, and the Longy School of Music.

A Carnegie Hall Fellow and a Peabody Singapore Fellow, Jason has toured Europe, Asia, Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic and has given concerts at Vienna Musikverein, Singapore Esplanade, The Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall. He 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 English Concert, Handel and Haydn Society, Trinity Baroque, The Thirteen, Seattle and Portland Baroque Orchestras, Byron Schenkman & Friends, and The Sarasa Ensemble. He has spent recent summers on viola and viola d'amore at the Staunton Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, and the Aston Magna Music Festival.