Juliet Fraser

Soprano Juliet Fraser specialises in the gnarly edges of contemporary classical music. Known for her precise yet passionate interpretations, she regularly appears as a soloist with ensembles Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern and Quatuor Bozzini, as a duo with pianist Mark Knoop or violinist Hannah Weirich, and alone on stage in works for voice and electronics. She remains a core member of EXAUDI vocal ensemble, which she co-founded with James Weeks in 2002. Juliet is an active commissioner of new repertoire and has worked particularly closely with composers Georges Aperghis, Pascale Criton, Catherine Lamb, Bernhard Lang, Cassandra Miller and Rebecca Saunders. She is equally recognised for breathing new life into existing works such as Morton Feldman’s Three Voices, Gérard Grisey’s Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil and Claude Vivier’s Bouchara. As a tutor, she has led voice studios for Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Fondation Royaumont, Mixtur Festival and Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, and regular gives masterclasses at universities and conservatoires around Europe. She also enjoys writing words about being a performer: essays have been published by Wolke, Cambridge University Press, Sounds Now and Schott, as well as on her Substack. Juliet is artistic director of eavesdropping, a platform for new music and new ways of thinking about music held at Cafe OTO in London, and co-director of all that dust, an independent label for new music. She is programme director of VOICEBOX, a radical new initiative that she created for singers specialising in contemporary vocal performance. In 2023 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Southampton University.

As of October 2025