Cello

Mina Fisher

Pennsylvania native Mina Fisher joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1979 after serving as associate principal cello with the New Orleans Philharmonic and principal cello with both the New Orleans Opera Orchestra and the National Symphony of Costa Rica.

Fisher is currently cellist and manager of the Bakken Trio, a mixed instrumental and vocal chamber group. She was a founding member of Ensemble Capriccio and with that ensemble commissioned and premiered more than a dozen string trios by composers including Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Stephen Paulus, Judith Lang Zaimont and John Tartaglia. Fisher also performed on five international tours with Ensemble Capriccio. She can be heard on the CRI, Paulus, Innova and Titanic labels.

An active teacher and coach, Fisher studied under Janos Starker and Fritz Magg at Indiana University and with André Navarra at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna.