Fraser Trainer
Fraser Trainer is a composer with over twenty-five years experience working with some of the world’s leading arts organisations in a wide variety of creative contexts.
Fraser studied composition at Huddersfield University where he was awarded the 1989 Composition Prize, later winning the 1992 Lutoslawski Prize as a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
A composer with a vivid and direct musical language, Fraser has five London Sinfonietta commissions to his name and has also written music for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Proms, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Fraser writes music for many different kinds of performers, events and locations: Line-up was written to celebrate the opening of Southwark Tube Station, Songs From The Cowshed was performed by 120 wind, brass and percussion players and played to an audience of 12,000 football supporters at Stadium MK, whilst BBC commissions include For The Living for violinist Viktoria Mullova and the BBC SO and The Duke’s Cut, a concerto for improvising cello soloist and orchestra.
From 1999 to 2008 Fraser was Creative Director of the London Sinfonietta’s award winning education program. Throughout this time he built strong working relationships with leading musicians as well as many other British composers.
Fraser now works as a free-lance composer and musician travelling all over the world to lead creative and collaborate projects, bringing together musicians, non-musicians, professionals and amateurs to make and perform new music together.
Universal Notes was an exciting collaboration between the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Darbar Festival that brought together Western orchestral musicians and leading Indian classical musicians in one ensemble alongside soloist Matthew Barley.
Fraser is a founder member of Between The Notes, teaches at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Royal College of Music and sits on the panel for the BBC’s annual Young Composers Competition.
Fraser Trainer is a composer with over twenty-five years experience working with some of the world’s leading arts organisations in a wide variety of creative contexts.
Fraser studied composition at Huddersfield University where he was awarded the 1989 Composition Prize, later winning the 1992 Lutoslawski Prize as a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
A composer with a vivid and direct musical language, Fraser has five London Sinfonietta commissions to his name and has also written music for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Proms, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Fraser writes music for many different kinds of performers, events and locations: Line-up was written to celebrate the opening of Southwark Tube Station, Songs From The Cowshed was performed by 120 wind, brass and percussion players and played to an audience of 12,000 football supporters at Stadium MK, whilst BBC commissions include For The Living for violinist Viktoria Mullova and the BBC SO and The Duke’s Cut, a concerto for improvising cello soloist and orchestra.
From 1999 to 2008 Fraser was Creative Director of the London Sinfonietta’s award winning education program. Throughout this time he built strong working relationships with leading musicians as well as many other British composers.
Fraser now works as a free-lance composer and musician travelling all over the world to lead creative and collaborate projects, bringing together musicians, non-musicians, professionals and amateurs to make and perform new music together.
Universal Notes was an exciting collaboration between the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Darbar Festival that brought together Western orchestral musicians and leading Indian classical musicians in one ensemble alongside soloist Matthew Barley.
Fraser is a founder member of Between The Notes, teaches at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Royal College of Music and sits on the panel for the BBC’s annual Young Composers Competition.
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