Fisher has received numerous awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music/The American Music Center.
Fisher conducted the Shawnee Press recording choir in the mid 1970s which became the foundation of the Pocono Choral Society.
He was the founding and only music director of the Choral Society based in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2010, when it disbanded.
Fisher was Associate Conductor for the Cincinnati Opera's 1990 Summer Festival and is the founder and artistic director of the Pocono Pops Orchestra and Chorus.
His original, commissioned work "Love Songs" was performed by the combined voices of the Pocono Choral Society and the University of Scranton Singers in May 2004.