Composer
Complete list of Work
Fraz’s work is characterised by its playfulness and the connections it explores between score, performers,
and audience. Sometimes juxtaposing the old and new in surprising ways, her music often incorporates video,
drawings, and original and found text. She studied composition on Manchester’s prestigious ‘joint course’ at
the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester, where she was taught by Emily Howard
and Larry Goves. Fraz’s musical background was in church choirs and playing clarinet and percussion in
orchestras, and alongside composing conducts a choir, and does music engraving work with several publishers
and composers.
In 2025, Fraz was a composer on Contemporary Music for All’s ‘Bespoke’ project, mentoring emerging composers
and writing a piece inspired by bell-ringing. Other recent projects have included an organ solo, ‘Glitterball’,
commissioned by Choir & Organ magazine; ‘Another Road’ for Hereford Chamber Choir performed at the Three Choirs
Festival; and ‘I Trespass’, a lower voices piece for the Sunday Boys that was recorded for ABRSM Stage. Fraz
was a participant on ABRSM’s composer mentoring scheme ‘Writing Music for Education’, and Sound and Music’s
‘Adopt a Music Creator’ scheme in 2023, writing for Blackheath Choir. In 2021, she wrote a choose-your-own-adventure
style piano solo for Psappha’s ‘Composing for…’ project, which was later performed by Ben Powell. Fraz was a
Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2020 and in 2016 won the RPS and Duet Group’s prize for young composers.
Fraz also has interests in opera, multimedia and experimental performance work. Her piece ‘The Lost Supper’,
a kind of ASMR experience set in an imaginary restaurant has been presented in Manchester, Copenhagen and
Munich (MINU festival and Radikal jung Festival). In 2021 Fraz was Composer-in-residence for Centre for
Cultural Value’s ‘Covid-19: Changing Culture?’ Conference, creating an online interactive soundscape about
the experience of being immersed in audience chatter at a time when live venues were closed. In 2020, Fraz
launched an online concert series ‘Music That Fits Into the Time We’ve Saved’—a biannual live broadcast at
the hour when the clocks change, which has platformed works by over 25 composers in a meditative nocturnal
perambulation through strange sonic landscapes.
Engraver
Examples of my work
I’m fascinated by scores. Really, genuinely, excited about the different ways that different things (objects, paper,
videos, verbal instruction...) can facilitate a performance. I'm always focusing on how we can be always writing
for the mind of the performer, not just their instrument. The way that a part looks, whether it's a quick arrangement
of a pop song for an orchestral musician to read through once and then play in a gig, or something more careful and
intricate, the score can make or break the end result.
So, whether you want someone to proofread something, reformat a score, make parts, transcribe something from
a dodgy pdf, talk through solutions to unconventional notation, whatever I'd be good for the job. I currently work
in both Sibelius and Dorico - I find that having two possibilities is a good way to stay sharp with both and keep a
fresh approach to every score.