School of Music cello students refine their repertoire with world-renowned cellist Norman Fischer.

Norman Fischer has concertized on five continents and in 49 of the 50 United States. He was cellist with the Concord String Quartet through its 16-year career and winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, two Grammy nominations and an Emmy. Mr. Fischer is the cellist of the Fischer Duo, a group that was founded in 1971 with pianist Jeanne Kierman and specializes in both the classical masterworks of Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann as well as music of our own time. He is currently Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Cello and Director of Chamber Music at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston.