Biographies:  Colyn Fisher

Colyn Fisher has been playing the violin since the age of three, and the Scottish fiddle since the age of five. As a teenager he studied with a number of the great fiddle masters of Scotland, such as Ian Powrie, Angus Grant, & Alasdair Hardy, and in the USA with John Turner and Bonnie Rideout.

Colyn won the title of US-Scottish Open Fiddle Champion for 2005, having won the nationwide competition at the Houston Highland Games on May 14, 2005. In 1993 he won the National Scottish Fiddling championship (Jr. Div.)

He holds a Bachelor of Music Performance in Violin from Wheaton College, Illinois, and has recorded with various ensembles and genres from rock to jazz to classical and Celtic.

Currently he freelances with several symphony orchestras in Western Pennsylvania and teaches privately.

This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Funding for concert performances and workshops by Road to the Isles is available to non-profit presenters throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information contact PennPat at (www.pennpat.org) (215)496-9424, or Music Tree at () (412) 323-2707.