Donald Fraser

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 bot...