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.