JULIET FRASER, soprano & manager

Juliet was educated at the Purcell School as a first-study oboist and then at Selwyn College, Cambridge where she read Music and History of Art. In her final year she joined the chapel choir of Clare College, directed by Timothy Brown.

Based in London, Juliet is a busy freelance soloist and consort singer, with a particular interest in early and contemporary music. She is the founder and manager of the acclaimed EXAUDI Vocal ensemble. Besides her work with EXAUDI, Juliet sings regularly with the Monteverdi Choir, the BBC Singers, the King’s Consort, Polyphony, Tenebrae and Collegium Vocale Gent.

Juliet made her BBC Proms solo début in 2007 with Endymion, and returned last year to perform with the Aurora Orchestra. Recent solo engagements have included Bach’s St John Passion for the Windsor Spring Festival, Vaughan Williams’ Benedicite and Haydn’s Paukenmesse in the Shoreham Festival, and Luigi Nono’s Prometeo at the South Bank Centre. Last season she performed with EXAUDI at Kings Place, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and in Bucharest for the British Council, with Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert for performances of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in the UK and Spain, in St James’ Piccadilly for a programme of Bach cantatas, and in the bmic’s ‘Cutting Edge’ series with Kürbis. She also appeared as a soloist in the London Sinfonietta’s 40th birthday concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last December.

Oratorio engagements this season include Handel’s Judas Maccabeus with Leicestershire Chorale, Handel’s Samson in the Shoreham Festival, and Handel’s Dixit Dominum and Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Finchley Choral Society. She will also be appearing as a soloist in Stravinsky’s Threni with the CBSO, and in recital at the National Portrait Gallery.