Silversong Studio

Yonni Fischer - Bio


Yonni Fischer is a formally trained flutist and pianist who is well known in Alaska and Outside for her versatility in classical and jazz improvisations and unique compositions and recordings. Her music education and performance experience spans over three decades. Yonni’s piano training began when she was five years old, and flute when she was ten. She held a position as the First Assistant flutist in the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1989 and attended the Fairbanks SummerArts Festival on scholarships from 1978 to 1990. Yonni haswritten for flute choir and piano/flute/cello ensemble and hasbeen a finalist in various international composition contests. She has received scholarships to study with Jean Pierre Rampal, James Galway, Louis Moyse, William Bennett, John Barcellona, Trevor Wye, Irv Gilmanand Theodore DeCorso.
Coupled with her music education, elementary education and counseling training at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Yonni’s emphasis is on each student’s specific and distinctive learning style. In addition to private flute and piano instruction, she prepares High School flutists for auditions and Allstate competition and is the founder and director of the Fairbanks Youth Flute Choir.
Ms. Fischer toured with Windham Hill pianist Scott Cossu and guitarist Van Manakas from 1985 to 1992. She has performed with Michael Hedges, Canned Heat and various jazz ensembles in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington DC. She assembled the Silversong Jazz Ensemble and performs regularly in the Fairbanks area. In 1993 Yonni was commissioned to compose and record the sound track for the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute’s “Aurora Explained” video project. Her CD, “Tundra Swan”, was released in 1999. Her new CD will be released in the summer of 2007.

Silversong Studio & Productions

Yonni Fischer

Flutist - Pianist - Instructor - Performer - Composer

INSTRUCTOR: Classical, jazz and improv, theory/chord technique, composition, musicality/phrasing, performance ettiquette. (See bio)

COMPOSER: Released "Tundra Swan" CD in 2000, new double CD to be released in 2007.

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PERFORMER: Founder of the Silversong Jazz Ensemble with performances at the Marriott Hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska, SilverStrings performing classical flute and violin performances for weddings, fundraisers and receptions.