Victoria Fraser is an Alaska-born soprano and composer. Fluent in multiple languages, Victoria holds dual Irish & United States citizenship. She has performed to acclaim throughout the world including: California Bach Society under Paul Flight; San Francisco new music ensemble, Volti with Robert Geary; the Vocalensemble Frankfurt Dom, in Frankfurt, Germany; the Berwick Chamber Chorus at the Oregon Bach Festival as chorus member and step-out soloist; grammy-nominated True Concord under Eric Holtan in Tucson, Arizona; Audivi, directed by Noah Horn in Detroit, Michigan; Il Coro del Duomo in Florence, Italy as a soloist and in the chorus; and the Bachkantaten-Akademie choir in Thuringia, Germany. She has sung under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki, Helmut Rilling, Matthew Halls, John Nelson, JoAnn Falletta, Craig Hella Johnson, Jeffrey Thomas and Kathy Romey. Victoria is a featured soloist on 10 time Grammy-winning Jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval’s Christmas album, Emerson Eads’ Mass for the Oppressed album, and on David Child’s release of newly composed works.
Victoria enjoys producing and performing in interdisciplinary arts projects as well as concerts in unusual venues. These have included Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Jessica Lang Dance, and Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, and an evening of music and food in the South Bend Conservatory of Plants. She has enjoyed close collaborations with the artist and designer Camilla Tassi on a number of these projects. Victoria’s compositions are rooted in her passion for early music. They seek to re-contextualize and re-imagine early styles and forms. Her music often explores relationships between the sacred and the scientific, looking to bring these two often disparate but integrally linked worlds into dialogue. After working with creative producer and interdisciplinary artist, Carmen Helena-Téllez on several interdisciplinary projects at the University of Notre Dame, Victoria’s own creative endeavors have expanded and evolved to focus on bringing together visual arts, dance, and music in the same works. To enhance and diversify her continuing work, Victoria has also become a video editor, as exampled in Made, a collaboration with dancer Mikayla Ellison-Phillips.
Victoria holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Smith College where she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and with high honors. She went on to complete a Master of Music in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Masters in Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame where she studied under Kiera Duffy and Stephen Lancaster. She completed the MA in Ritual Chant and Song program at the University of Limerick, Ireland where she also studied Irish song with Roisin Ni Galloglaigh, Mary McLaughlin, and Eamonn Costello.
She is a founding member of turas, a symphonic-folk duo weaving together classical, folk, trad, and pop on both acoustic and electric instruments.
Passionate about the outdoors, and born to a mountaineer father, Victoria loves to ski, rock climb, mountain bike, hike, and is a certified PADI SCUBA divemaster. She is a proud member of the South End Rowing Club and can often be seen rowing on the bay at sunrise.
Ensembles:
Anchorage Festival of Music, Anchorage, AK
American Bach Soloists Cantorei, San Francisco, CA
Audivi, Detroit, MI
Benedict Sixteen Choir, San Francisco, CA
Berwick Chamber Chorus, Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene, OR
Cantoral, Limerick, Ireland
California Bach Society, San Francisco, CA
Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, San Francisco, CA
Stadtkantorei, Stade, Germany
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA
Sounding Light, Plymouth, MI
True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Tucson, AZ
Vocalensemble am Kaiserdom, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Volti, San Francisco, CA
Vox Humana, Dallas, TX
Weimarer Bachkantaten-Akademie, Thuringia, Germany
Solo Concert:
Barbara Strozzi, Primo libro de’ Madrigali Op. 1, California Bach Society, San Francisco, CA 2023
Berio, Laborintus, UC Davis, Davis, CA 2023
Schubert, Mass in A-flat Major D. 678, Chora Nova 2022
Bach, BWV 243, Magnificat, Chora Nova, San Francisco, CA 2021
Bach, BWV 105, Herr gehe nicht ins Gericht, California Bach Society, San Francisco, CA 2021
Bach, BWV 6, Bleib bei Uns, San Francisco, CA 2021
Handel, Alpestre Monte, Anchorage Festival of Music, Anchorage, AK 2019
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, Jessica Lang Dance Co., South Bend, IN 2018
Handel, HWV 56, The Messiah, Bethany Oratorio Society, Lindsborg, KS, 2018
Bach, BWV 202, Weichet Nur, Betrübte Schatten, Northampton, MA, 2018
Bach, BWV 244, St. Matthew Passion, Bethany Oratorio Society, Lindsborg, KS, 2018
Mozart, Mass in C-minor, Concordia Choir of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, 2018
Zelenka, Miserere, Oakland Choral Society, Detroit, MI 2017
Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem, Concordia Choir of Notre Dame, Notre Dame 2017
Bach, BWV 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden, Oakland Choral Society, Detroit, MI 2017
Haydn, Stabat Mater, Concordia Choir of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, 2017
Bach, BWV 232, Mass in B-Minor, American Bach Soloists Academy, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Purcell, King Arthur, American Bach Soloists Academy, San Francisco, CA 2017
J.J. Wright, Love and Devotion, Concordia Choir of Notre Dame, Chiesa Nuova, Rome, 2017
Schubert, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 2017
Arturo Sandoval, Christmas CD, December 2017 release
Bach, BWV 1083, Tilge Höchster mein Sünden, Graduate Recital, Notre Dame, 2017
Charpentier, Te Deum, Concordia Choir, Notre Dame, 2017
Carissimi, Jephte, Concordia Choir, Notre Dame, 2017
Brahms, Requiem, Vox Humana, Dallas, TX 2016
Hildegard von Bingen, Various Chants, Digital Model of the Universe, 2016
Bach, BWV 82a, Ich habe genug, Zion Lutheran Church Concert Series, Ann Arbor, MI 2016
Concertos & Arias Recital, Jeffrey Lewandowski, Trumpet, Anchorage, AK 2015
Mozart, Coronation Mass, First Presbyterian Church, Flint, MI, 2015
Vivaldi, First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2015
Fauré, Requiem, Santa Clara Chorale, Santa Clara, CA, 2011
Vivaldi, Gloria, Santa Clara Chorale 2010
Pergolesi, Magnificat, Coro del duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy 2008
Floyd, The Trees on the Mountains, Smith College Orchestra, Northampton, MA 2008
Mozart, Exsultate Jubilate, Smith College Orchestra 2008
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, Smith College Chamber Singers 2007
Significant Chorale Works:
Bach, BWV 4, Christ lag in Todes Banden
Bach, BWV 19, Es erhub sich ein Streit
Bach, BWV 50, Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft
Bach, BWV 63, Christen, Ätzet diesen Tag
Bach, BWV 70, Wachet! betet! wachet!
Bach, BWV 71, Gott ist mein König
Bach, BWV 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
Bach, BWV 130, Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir
Bach, BWV 131, Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir
Bach, BWV 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Bach, BWV 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Bach, BWV 149, Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg
Bach, BWV 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
Bach, BWV 227, Jesu, meine Freude
Bach, BWV 229, Komm, Jesu, komm
Bach, BWV 230, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
Bach, BWV 232, B-Minor Mass
Bach, BWV 235, Mass in G Minor
Bach, BWV 236, Mass in G Major
Bach, BWV 243, Magnificat in D
Bach, BWV 245, Johannes-Passion
Bach, BWV 247, Markus-Passion (Matthew Halls reconstruction)
Bach, Der Gerechte kommt um
Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem
Bruckner, Te Deum
Copland, In the Beginning
Handel, Theodora
Handel, Messiah
Handel, Belshazzar
Haydn, Der Schöpfung
Haydn, Lord Nelson Mass
MacMillan, Requiem (World Premiere)
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor
Martin, Mass for Double Choir
Monteverdi, 1610 Vespers
Mozart, Vesperae Solenne de Dominica
Mozart, Mass in C-Minor
Mozart, Requiem
Pärt, Passio
Rachmaninov, Vespers
Caroline Shaw, Ochre (world premiere performance)
Talbot, Path of Miracles, Volti & ODC Dance Company
Tormis, Curse Upon Iron
Eriks Eš¡envalds, Passion and Resurrection