Samuel Fischer

Sam Fischer, violinist, enjoys an active, versatile career throughout his native Southern California. He is concertmaster of the Desert Symphony, Opera Santa Barbara, the Redlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Riverside Philharmonic. He is Artist Professor of Violin at the University of Redlands and is on faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts.  Mr. Fischer has appeared regularly as soloist with orchestras including the Redlands Symphony, the Riverside Philharmonic, the Desert Symphony, the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony, the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Orchestra Santa Monica, and the Caltech-Occidental Chamber Orchestra. As concertmaster of the Riverside County Philharmonic, Mr. Fischer has led the orchestra in a program without conductor, and he has given the world premiere of Victoria Bond’s violin concerto “Soul of a Nation – a Thomas Jefferson Portrait”. He has performed with orchestras including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, and the Pasadena Symphony.  He has recorded extensively for motion picture and television soundtracks, record albums, and video game soundtracks by many of Hollywood’s top composers and artists.  Mr. Fischer gives frequent chamber music performances and has been featured at the Sundays Live series at the LOS ANGELES Museum of Art, the Idyllwild Distinguished Artists Chamber Music Series, the Montecito International Music Festival, the Austin Chamber Music Festival, and the Yellow Barn Festival. He has collaborated with artists including Anne Akiko-Meyers, Martin Beaver, Joseph Silverstein, and the Jupiter String Quartet. Mr. Fischer holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California and a Masters degree from the Juilliard School.  His principal teachers include Robert Lipsett, Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, and Emanuel Borok. A passionate educator, Mr. Fischer is on on the faculty of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program, the Montecito International Music Festival, the Young Musicians Foundation Chamber Music Series, and Junior Chamber Music Los Angeles. Mr. Fischer is a member of the Music Advisory Boards of the Young Musicians Foundation and the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony.