Duncan Fraser is a passionate and enthusiastic music educator, clarinettist, and conductor.

Duncan read for a degree in music at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where he held a Lady Lincoln award for performance and was recipient of the Dorothy Kolbert Prize by the college. He studied clarinet with Joy Farrall at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama whilst a student at Cambridge and has also spent time learning privately with Mark van de Weil. Prior to this, Duncan held a prestigious Wolfson scholarship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Department where he was a pupil of Alison Waller. He has performed concertos at both Glasgow and Cambridge universities and has collaborated with leading composers on new music projects. He also holds a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts.   

As an educator, Duncan maintains a busy portfolio as a tutor, teacher, and animateur. He currently teaches academic music at City of London School for Girls, where he directs the school’s sinfonia and coaches chamber music. Alongside this, Duncan also teaches general musicianship and chamber music at the Junior Royal Academy of Music. He has held prior teaching posts at several leading school music departments, including Brighton College and as head of lower school music at King’s College School, Wimbledon. Duncan is a firm believer of the interdisciplinary potential of music and its relationship to other art forms. This philosophy underpins much of his teaching practice, and he always encourages to students to consider how their music-making relates to the wider world around them.

Duncan is always looking for new and exciting projects to work on - be that playing, writing, or teaching - so please do not hesitate to get in touch.