Biography

Violinist Rachael Fischer maintains an active schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and educator.

An avid chamber musician, Dr. Fischer has performed across the United States and in Europe. She is a founding member of Piedmont Camerata, the resident chamber ensemble of Piedmont University. Other recent performances include concerts with the Jupiter String Quartet, Aspen String Trio, clarinetist Jon Manasse, pianists Peter Miyamoto and Peter Frankl, and violinist Soovin Kim. She has also been invited to perform for regional, national, and international events in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina, Croatia, France, Scotland, and Slovenia as part of a violin and saxophone duo. Dr. Fischer has performed in violin master classes for renowned artists and teachers including Roger Frisch, Brian Lewis, J. Patrick Rafferty, Stanley Ritchie, and Walter Verdehr, and in chamber music master classes with members of the Ébène, Juilliard, Parisii, St. Lawrence, and Tokyo String Quartets.

A dedicated teacher, Dr. Fischer is Associate Professor of Music at Georgia Gwinnett College, and also maintains a Suzuki violin studio at the University of Georgia Community Music School. She has completed Suzuki teacher training with Linda Case, Teri Einfeldt, Kirsten Marshall, Kimberly Meier-Sims, Mark Mutter, and Carrie Reuning-Hummel, and has taken supplemental courses with Teri Einfeldt, Daniel Gee Cordova, Edward Kreitman, and Edmund Sprunger. She is a past president of the Suzuki Association of Georgia, and is currently co-director of the Atlanta Suzuki Institute. Dr. Fischer previously served on the music faculties of Erskine College and Piedmont University, and was an associate director of the University of Georgia Summer Music Camps.

Rachael Fischer holds a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from the University of Georgia, a Master of Music degree in violin performance from Arizona State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in violin performance with a minor in musicology from the University of Georgia. Her doctoral dissertation is a pedagogical guide to Johannes Brahms’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin. Dr. Fischer’s principal teachers include Michael Heald and Katherine McLin; she has studied viola with Maggie Snyder.

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