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 Fraser
Goulding was educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham,
sang as a lay clerk in Birmingham Cathedral Choir, and
studied the organ with Thomas Tunnard. He read Music at
Bristol University, trained as a répétiteur with James
Robertson at The London Opera Centre, and was assistant to
Vilem Tausky at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
He is well known as former Musical Director of the D’Oyly
Carte Opera Company, and as a conductor of the London
Concert Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the
Barbican in London and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
He is a regular guest conductor of the BBC Concert
Orchestra.
Fraser’s operatic repertoire ranges from Purcell and Mozart
to Britten, and he has conducted several world premières,
the most recent being Alun Hoddinott’s Tower. As
Music Director of Opus 1 Opera, he has prepared and
performed thirty-five performances this year around the UK
of La Bohème, Tosca and Il Trovatore.
He has conducted all except one of Anglia Concertante’s
concerts at All Saints, and is proud to be able to make
music in such beautiful and sympathetic surroundings. The
performance of Mozart’s Requiem with Cantemus and Anglia
Concertante earlier this year was a high point.
He conducted the West Norfolk Gilbert and Sullivan Society
in King’s Lynn for more than ten years, and has conducted
musicals at the Corn Exchange with Hanover Productions and
KLODS.
He is also much in demand as a pianist and accompanist.
Forthcoming engagements include orchestral concerts in
London, Manchester, Birmingham and Swansea, and as an
accompanist in Lowestoft, Huddersfield, Leeds and Brecon.
Keenly interested in encouraging music-making of all kinds,
in July last year he conducted his 25th annual
concert with Portway Summer Music School at Bristol’s
Clifton Cathedral, and has conducted eight courses with The
Opera School, Wales. |
