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Meet Donald Fraser
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British-born Donald Fraser is a well-rounded musician, noted and widely performed as a composer (of concert music and film scores), active as a conductor, and a behind-the-scenes presence as an arranger and a top-flight producer: a combination of talents perhaps unique on the contemporary scene. Successful in all these careers in Britain, he moved to the U.S. in midlife and replicated his success.
Fraser sang in a local choir as a youth and studied piano and trumpet, taking up composition at 13. When he was 17 he enrolled at the Royal College of Music in London, studying both composition (with Humphrey Searle) and conducting (with Alexander Goehr). Fraser won five separate composition prizes during his second year at the school and then added film music to his résumé, becoming resident composer at the Royal College of Music and Art at 19. His score for the musical Why Tears, Achilles?, based on Homer’s Iliad, was widely heard as the production toured under various names. Through his twenties, Fraser worked in the film and television industry, writing concert music on the side; a concert of his chamber works was given at Wigmore Hall. He purchased and worked in the countryside studio where Edward Elgar wrote many of his later works. Turning to conducting, he often led the English Chamber Orchestra in the 1990s and was signed as a producer by BMG and Delos based on the strong chart performance of recordings he had conducted.
Fraser moved to the U.S. in 1996 after being invited to assume the music directorship of the Illinois Chamber Symphony, and he has continued to compose new works performed by that group, the Chicago Symphony, the Choir of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and other groups. He has guest conducted numerous American symphony orchestras and choirs, including both the West Point Glee Club and the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus. A permanent U.S. resident, he has continued to conduct in Britain, releasing Songs for Strings with the English Chamber Orchestra on the Avie label in 2018.
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870 Direct Modulations – Organ
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870 Direct Modulations – Organ
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A Basque Lullaby – SATB Divisi
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A Basque Lullaby – SATB Divisi
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A Blessing Of Peace – SATB
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A Blessing Of Peace – SATB
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A Bouquet Of Service Pieces For Organ – Organ
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A Bouquet Of Service Pieces For Organ – Organ
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A Bright New Day – SATB
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A Bright New Day – SATB
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A Bronze Triptych – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Bronze Triptych – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Bronze Triptych – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Bronze Triptych – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Bronze Triptych – SATB Divisi
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A Bronze Triptych – SATB Divisi
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A Canon I Know – SATB
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A Canon I Know – SATB
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A Carol For Advent – SAB
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A Carol For Advent – SAB
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A Carol Of Christ – SATB
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A Carol Of Christ – SATB
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A Celebration of Singing – SA/SSA/SSAA
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A Celebration of Singing – SA/SSA/SSAA
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A Celebration of Singing – Vocal solo
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A Celebration of Singing – Vocal solo
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A Celtic Blessing – 2 Part Mixed
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A Celtic Blessing – 2 Part Mixed
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A Cherokee Hymn – SAB
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A Cherokee Hymn – SAB
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A Child My Choice – SATB
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A Child My Choice – SATB
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A Child My Choice – SATB
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A Child My Choice – SATB
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A Child’s Prayer – 2 Part Treble
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A Child’s Prayer – 2 Part Treble
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A Christmas Hymn – SATB
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A Christmas Hymn – SATB
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A Christmas Invitation – SATB
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A Christmas Invitation – SATB
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A Christmas Lullaby – SATB Divisi
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A Christmas Lullaby – SATB Divisi
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A Christmas Madrigal – SATB
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A Christmas Madrigal – SATB
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A Christmas Suite – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Christmas Suite – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Christmas Suite – SATB
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A Christmas Suite – SATB
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A Christmas Wish – SAB
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A Christmas Wish – SAB
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A Clean Heart – SATB
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A Clean Heart – SATB
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A Covenant Prayer – Instr – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Covenant Prayer – Instr – Instrumental Parts and Score
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A Covenant Prayer – SA/SSA/SSAA
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A Covenant Prayer – SA/SSA/SSAA
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A Covenant Prayer – SATB
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A Covenant Prayer (A Cappella) – SATB Divisi
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A Covenant Prayer (A Cappella) – SATB Divisi
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A Covenant Prayer (Accompanied) – SATB
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A Cradle Song For Christmas – SATB
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A Cradle Song For Christmas – SATB
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A Distant Alleluia – SATB
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A Distant Alleluia – SATB
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A Doyo Medley – SATB
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A Doyo Medley – SATB
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A Dream Of The Mist – Unison
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A Dream Of The Mist – Unison
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A Dream Within A Dream – SATB
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A Dream Within A Dream – SATB
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A French Noel – SATB
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A French Noel – SATB
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A Fun Tune – 2 Part Mixed
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A Fun Tune – 2 Part Mixed
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A Good Work – SATB
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A Good Work – SATB
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A Great Light – SATB
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A Great Light – SATB
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A Heart To Serve – SATB
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A Heart To Serve – SATB
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A Hope Carol – 2 Part Treble
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A Hope Carol – 2 Part Treble
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A Hymn Of Unity – SATB
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A Hymn Of Unity – SATB
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A Joyous Sound – SATB
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A Joyous Sound – SATB
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A La Nanita Nana – 3 Part
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A La Nanita Nana – 3 Part
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A La Puerta Del Cielo – 2 Part Treble
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A La Puerta Del Cielo – 2 Part Treble
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A Lady That Was So Fair And Bright – SATB
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A Lady That Was So Fair And Bright – SATB
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A Little Bird – Unison
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A Little Bird – Unison
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A Little Christmas Music – SATB
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A Little Christmas Music – SATB
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A Little Love – 2 Part Mixed
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A Little Love – 2 Part Mixed
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