Jeffrey Fischer is a percussionist with the Boston Ballet Orchestra and is the Timpanist of the Boston Lyric Opera Company, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra. He is the head of the percussion department at U. Mass. Lowell, where he conducted and recorded the first performance of the original 1924 version of George Anthiel's Ballet Mecanique. As a composer he was a member of the Composers in Red Sneakers, has had works performed by Alea III, and was awarded a new works grant by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for Street Music. His composition Blue Song/Plastic Dance has been performed throughout the United States.