Rich Fisher
General ManagerRich Fisher is celebrating his 40th year of service to Public Radio Tulsa. Since 2000, he has been the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and previously served as the host of the public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which ran from 1992-2021. Prior to that, he served as music director, a program host and operations director for the station.
As host of StudioTulsa, Fisher conducted roughly six thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. For this, Fisher was honored by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, Oklahoma Association of Broadcaster, Oklahoma Chapter of Society of Professional Journalism. He was also named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
When he’s not at the station, Fisher is an active professional musician. He’s currently the principal trombonist of the Signature Symphony at TCC and has served as “Trombonist of Last Resort” for the Tulsa Symphony and other orchestras around the area. He is also the music director for the summer Starlight Jazz Orchestra series and is a free-lance musician whose work ranges from the pit of touring Broadway musicals to performing with trad jazz, salsa, modern jazz and chamber music ensembles. He can also play a mean “Hora” with a klezmer band as well.
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