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The Alaska-born soprano, music educator and composer, Victoria Fraser, holds dual Irish & United States citizenship. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Smith College (2006--2010) where she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and with high honors. She went on to complete a Master of Music in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (2010-2012), and a Masters in Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame where she studied under Kiera Duffy and Stephen Lancaster. During her studies, she was Director/Music Director of Alaska Theatre of Youth (2006-2013). She completed the Master of Arts degree in Ritual Chant and Song program at the University of Limerick, Ireland where she also studied Irish song with Roisin Ni Galloglaigh, Mary McLaughlin, and Eamonn Costello.
Victoria Fr has performed to acclaim throughout the world including: California Bach Society (Director: Paul Flight); San Francisco new music ensemble, Volti with Robert Geary; the Vocalensemble Frankfurt Dom, in Frankfurt, Germany; the Berwick Chamber Chorus at the Oregon Bach Festival as chorus member and step-out soloist; grammy-nominated True Concord (Director: Eric Holtan) in Tucson, Arizona; Audivi (Director: Noah Horn) in Detroit, Michigan; Il Coro del Duomo in Florence, Italy as a soloist and in the chorus; and the Bachkantaten-Akademie choir in Thuringia, Germany. She has sung under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki, Helmuth Rilling, Matthew Halls, John Nelson, JoAnn Falletta, Craig Hella Johnson, Jeffrey Thomas and Kathy Romey. She is a featured soloist on 10 time Grammy-winning Jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval’s Christmas album, Emerson Eads’ Mass for the Oppressed album, and on David Child’s release of newly composed works.
Victoria Fraser enjoys producing and performing in interdisciplinary arts projects as well as concerts in unusual venues. These have included Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles with ODC Dance Company, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Jessica Lang Dance (2018), and Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, and an evening of music and food in the South Bend Conservatory of Plants. She has enjoyed close collaborations with the artist and designer Camilla Tassi on a number of these projects.
Victoria Fraser'scompositions are rooted in her passion for early music. They seek to re-contextualize and re-imagine early styles and forms. Her music often explores relationships between the sacred and the scientific, looking to bring these two often disparate but integrally linked worlds into dialogue. After working with the late creative producer and interdisciplinary artist, Carmen Helena-Téllez on several interdisciplinary projects at the University of Notre Dame, her own creative endeavors have expanded and evolved to focus on bringing together visual arts, dance, and music in the same works. To enhance and diversify her continuing work, she has also become a video editor, as exampled in Made, a collaboration with dancer Mikayla Ellison-Phillips and Out of the Chaos.
Victoria Fraser is a founding member of Turas Ensemble, a symphonic-folk duo weaving together classical, folk, trad, and pop on both acoustic and electric instruments.
Passionate about the outdoors, and born to a mountaineer father, Victoria Fraser loves to ski, rock climb, mountain bike, hike, and is a certified PADI SCUBA divemaster. She is a proud member of the South End Rowing Club and can often be seen rowing on the bay at sunrise. |
