Career
He is the current Music Director of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Anchorage Symphony, and Youngstown Symphony orchestras.
Mr. Fleischer has appeared as a guest conductor with many major orchestras in the United States and internationally including repeat engagements with the Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra and many others Mr. Fleischer was featured in the internationally broadcast Public Broadcasting Service documentary “Soldier of Music” which documented Rostropovich’s return to the Soviet Union and was also featured on the “60 Minutes” segment on this event.
“Soldier of Music” was later released on the Sony Video label.
In 1995 Mr. Fleischer made his debut with New York City Opera conducting “The Magic Flute.” Mr. Fleischer’s operatic repertoire includes productions of Louisiana Boheme, Turandot, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Louisiana Traviata and others
Active as a composer, Mr. Fleischer is a national leader in the area of symphonic rock and world music fusion.
Pioneering these new and growing genres for more than twelve years now, he has worked with artists such as John Densmore (The Doors), Natalie Merchant, Blondie, Ani DiFranco, John Cale (Velvet Underground) Garth Hudson (The Band), Kenny Rogers, and Native American artists R. Carlos Nakai, Burning Sky, The Hawk Project, The Benaly Family and others
As a fervent advocate of new music, Mr. Fleischer has commissioned and conducted many world premieres and many works by living composers. In January of 1991, Mississippi
Joyce and Mr.
Fleischer co-authored and premiered “Martin Luther King, Junior.: A Spiritual Journey” with the NSO, a piece for narrator and orchestra which explores the history of the civil rights movement with excerpts of Doctor King’s speeches, narrated for Doctor King’s daughter, Yolanda King. This piece was broadcast on Public Broadcasting Service in February of 1995. Mr. Fleischer studied with Leonard Bernstein as a conducting fellow at Tanglewood in 1989.
He served as the Assistant Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989.
While working toward his Master of Music degree at the Indiana University School of Music, he served as chorus master of the I.U. Opera Theater program from 1983 - 1985. Fleischer received his Bachelor of Music Education from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has studied conducting privately with Otto Werner Mueller and in Master class with Seiji Ozawa, Ricardo Muti, Gustav Meier and others