An active conductor, music educator, and choral scholar, Dr. Elizabeth Fisher serves as the Artistic Director of Young Voices of Colorado. Previously, she has held positions in choral conducting and music education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Minnesota Duluth. Dr. Fisher’s scholarship focuses on restoring manuscripts of music composed for the women of the Venetian Ospedali as well as choral music’s engagement with social justice issues. An active clinician, Fisher has worked with choirs in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Michigan, and in Kenya.
 
As a mezzo-soprano, Dr. Fisher currently performs with mirabai, a professional women’s chorus performing throughout the United States. As a choral singer, she has performed under the direction of Alan Gilbert, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Solonen, and Simon Rattle. She has also performed in opera productions at the Spoleto Festival from 2011-2013 and in the American premiere of Hosokawa’s Noh-opera “Matsukaze” in the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival in New York City.
 
Dr. Fisher holds degrees from Millikin University, Westminster Choir College, and Michigan State University.