Jonathan Fisher was born in Boston, MA on September 28, 1990. He began classical piano training at age five and violin at age seven. When he was eleven years old, he began studying jazz piano with Rusty Scott and has since studied with Charlie Banacos, David Zoffer of New England Conservatory, and at Berklee College of Music with Suzanna Sifter and JoAnne Brackeen. Before and during high school, he participated in summer music programs such as the Greenwood Music Camp and the Berklee Five-Week Summer Jazz Performance Program, where he studied with Wayne Naus and Phil Wilson among others. Jonathan has opened for George Russell Jr. at a Highland Jazz series show, and he has played at The Regattabar, Lily Pad, Brookline Arts Center, Harvard Faculty Club, Fogg Art Museum, Borders, Boston Ronald McDonald House, and various other hotels and nightclubs. His recording of “Have You Met Miss Jones” has been selected for feature on two Soundclick.com stations.
During high school, Jonathan led a quartet with saxophonist Nathan Berla-Shulock, bassist Sam Fisher, and drummers Alex Kurland and Dan Garmon. He was also student director of the Maimonides School jazz band for three years. Jonathan currently studies at Yale University in New Haven, CT pursuing a B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. He plays music in and around New Haven and occasionally in New York and Boston.
Jonathan's style has evolved tremendously through the years. Rusty Scott provided Jonathan fluency in bebop and a strong connection to foundational pianists Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, and Bill Evans. From there, Jonathan explored the worlds of Puerto Rican and Cuban jazz as well as modal, rhythmic, and thematic approaches to creating new sounds in jazz.
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