Having graduated on a music scholarship from Exeter University, Duncan is now based on London's doorstep in St Albans, Hertfordshire and in demand as a session musician on gigs and recordings all over the UK & Europe and can be heard on recordings and TV commercials all over the World. As an Arranger & Orchestrator, 'Duncan Fraser Orchestrations' has a fast growing reputiation for high quality Arrangements, Orchestrations, Trancriptions & Copying Services that has led to Duncan's work being distributed all over the world. Duncan will also be orchestrating his first musical, James & The Giant Peach, in 2016 which is proving to be an exciting project. Duncan has just finished working in London's West End on 'The Blues Brothers' at the Arts Theatre, Leicester Sq. and is looking forward to some exciting Freelance projects and theatre tours coming up in 2016. As well as carving a career as a session musician, Duncan released his first Jazz album with his own Big Band in 2012, which was nominated the best Jazz act of 2011 at the South West Music Awards.
Over the last couple of years Duncan has done a lot of work for me, and I can say that his arrangements are of the highest quality, very well presented, and follow up service (revisions, reduced band arrangements) are second to none - all at very reasonable costs. Give him a try, you won't be disappointed!
Every track has been brilliantly crafted by Fraser and is clearly a direct tribute to his biggest influence as a jazz performer, Kenny Wheeler. His music is fresh yet still rooted in the Wheeler style. The combination of Fraser’s talent as a jazz musician, arranger, composer and this fantastic young band make for an album which deserves to be recognised in the jazz world and beyond
