{"id":1471,"date":"2018-02-19T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brybrysite.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1471"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T10:29:11","slug":"frazer-scott","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/faculty\/frazer-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Frazer Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For almost five years, Frazer led the vocal provision at Southbank International School, Westminster. With three choirs, regular performances and over 30 1-1 students at Southbank, he gained a reputation as an approachable, friendly singing teacher and musician who always strove to put the students first and encourage them to reach their potential. Frazer left Southbank in 2022 and has since re-focussed his energies on his own private 1-1 studio, community music in and around London, as well as returning to performing as a soloist.<\/p>\n
Recent student success include roles in Harry Potter \u201cThe Cursed Child\u201d (West End), Oliver (Grange Park Opera), The Lion King (West End), Anna Nicole (ROH), Die Zauberfl\u00f6te (ROH) and successful applications to Bird College, The Brit School, Mountview and East15. Frazer\u2019s students have been chosen to tour with Jason Donovan and are regularly sought-out to perform with companies such as The Really Useful Group, Cameron Mackintosh, the BBC, ITV, Raymond Gubbay Ltd., the LOL Doll Surprise Tour (!) and Glyndebourne \/ Malm\u00f6 Opera.<\/p>\n
As rehearsal director of \u2018Choir on the Hill\u2019, Frazer helped raise \u00a31000 for \u2018The Ukraine Charity\u2019, busking for only 30 minutes at Crystal Palace Food market in April this year. Over the last five years, he has helped raise \u00a3250,000 for Dimbleby Cancer Care \/ Cancer Care Map UK – a charity which is close to his heart, having benefited from their care directly in 2014.<\/p>\n
Frazer studied with Prof. Susan McCulloch on the Guildhall School of Music & Drama\u2019s Opera Course, supported by Serena Fenwick, BMRDB, The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, The Behrens Foundation, The Stanley Picker Trust and the Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship Trust. Prior to this, he completed a PostGraduate Certificate in Performance and a Guildhall Artists Masters degree (MMus and MPerf) at the Guildhall School. As an undergraduate, he was awarded a First Class Honours BMus Degree from Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied with Henry Herford.<\/p>\n
Recent notable operatic roles include Caronte, Orfeo (Garsington Opera 2022), Geronimo, The Secret Marriage (British Youth Opera \u2013 4* The Independent) Pantalone The Adventures of Pinocchio (GSMD), Jupiter [cover] Orpheus in the Underworld (Scottish Opera), Leporello Don Giovanni (European Chamber Opera, Spain), Papageno Die Zauberfl\u00f6te (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham). As part of GSMD Opera Course Scenes performances, roles include Leporello Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso & Gugliemo Cos\u00ec fan Tutte, Inigo L\u2019Heure Espagnol, Benoit La Boh\u00e8me and Truffaldino The Little Green Swallow.<\/p>\n
Concert appearances include Locke\u2019s The Tempest (The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sam Wannamaker Playhouse\/Shakespere\u2019s Globe), Mozart\u2019s Requiem (for Orchestra of St John, St John\u2019s Smith Square and CBSO, Symphony Hall), Haydn\u2019s The Creation (as part of a BBC Birth of British Music documentary with the BBC Concert Orchestra), Vaughan Williams\u2019 Five Mystical Songs (for Iain McLarty and Hutcheson\u2019s Choarle, Glasgow), Les Noces (Rouen Opera House and Auditorium St. Germain) and as part of Iain Burnside\u2019s A Soldier and a Maker (initially \u2018Unknown Doors\u2019 \u2013 Barbican [London] & Cheltenham Festival). Frazer was a founding Song in the City singer (curated by Gavin Roberts) and twice appeared as part of Graham Johnson\u2019s Song Recital Series (GSMD). Singing a recital of Wolf and Schumann, Frazer made his St Martin\u2019s in the Fields debut with New Zealand pianist, Catherine Norton, in 2011.<\/p>\n
At the Wigmore Hall final of the 2013 Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, Frazer was awarded the Audience Prize and 1st Runner Up, performing alongside Amber Rainey. He was also a finalist in the Reginald Vincent Lider Prize in 2008.<\/p>\n
Frazer appears as a soloist on the Orchestra of St John\u2019s recording of Mozart\u2019s Requiem. He was the voice of Kettle Chips adverts across the USA and was previously a featured voice, singing jingles for BBC Radio. Frazer made his BBC Radio 3 debut alongside Richard Goulding, Jemma Redgrave and Stephanie Cole in Summer 2014, appearing as \u2018Wilf\u2019 in Iain Burnside\u2019s radio-play version of \u2018A Soldier and a Maker\u2019.<\/p>\n