Canadian soprano Stacey Fraser’seclecticmusical interestshaveledherto sing on international operatic,concertandtheatrestagesacrossthe United States, Canada, Asia andEurope.Shehasappearedasasoloistfor the San Diego Opera, the TonyAwardwinningLaJollaPlayhouse,theKennedy Center in Washington D.C.,Taipei National Concert Hall inTaiwan, ISCM Taiwan, the MusicasaConcertHall in Tokyo, Japan, theThailand Composition Festival, theAmerickéJaroFestivalinPrednasek,CzechRepublic,RedSquareGallery inHongKong,theFestivalEduardoMata

inOaxaca,Mexico,VancouverSymphony,SouthDakotaSymphony,KAZANCo-opTheatreinHalifax,NovaScotia,LaJollaSymphony,SanBernardinoSymphony,BanffCentre,TanglewoodMusicCenter, Asia Society NYC, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the world renowned La MaMaExperimentalTheatreinNewYorkCity.

ShehasreceivedcriticalacclaimfrominternationalpaperssuchastheNewYorkTimes,the

LosAngelesTimes, theSanDiegoUnionTribuneandtheOltnerTagblattofOlten,Switzerland forher performances in both standard and contemporary repertoire. Mark Swed of the LA timesrecently stated in his review of themonumental Tuesdays at Monkspace concert “Sequenza ~Sequenza!”that"StaceyFrasermadetheSequenzaintoaseamlessaria,sureofmusicaldirectionwhilemissingnoneofthehumororthefrighteningshocksofhorror."

Recordings include the role of Lisinga on the premiere recording ofManuel del Pópulo

Vicente Garcia’s operaLeCinesi forHarmonicorde; achambermusicalbumofworksbyAsianand American composers entitled Lotusblume for the Viennese label, ein Klang records, SevenEpitaphs forsoprano andclarinet byBarneyChilds forAdvanceRecordings,WorldscapeIIIbyKoji Nakano for Voices of the Pearl and Snowflakes, Blossoms : Friends of theWayby MarjorieMerryman for the Created at Scripps recording series. A new film by critically acclaimedfilmmakerSandraPowers featuringFrasersingingcomposerChinaryUng’sStillLifeAfterDeathwillbereleasedindependentlylaterthisyear.

Stacey is dedicated to the performance of vocal works by modern Asian-American

composersandisalong-timecollaboratorofJapanesecomposerKojiNakano,grandprizewinnerofthe2008S&RFoundationaward.Ms.FraserhasrecordedNakano’sAncientSongs(2007)forsolovoiceaswellashischamberpieceTimeSongII,Howlingthroughtimeforsoprano,percussionand flute (2006). Fraser gave the world premiere of Nakano’s new work for soprano entitledArigatoofromtheoperaSpiritualForestattheKennedyCenterin2011.SheperformedtheAsianpremiereofArigatoo tendays lateronMarch1,2011toasoldouthouseat theTaipeiNationalConcertHall inTaiwan.ShehassinceperformedtheworldpremiereofNakano’sWorldscapeIII

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forsoprano,pipaandelectronicsatthePacificAsiaMuseuminPasadena,California(2015)andhisImaginedSceneriesfortwosopranos,kotoandchamberensembleatScrippsCollege(2016).Ms. Fraser’s articles onNakano’s vocalmusic have beenpublishedbyCambridge Scholar Press(2009)theCollegeMusicSymposium(2011)andMUPAFestivalJournal,Thailand.(2015).

Operatic roles include Frida in Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Concert Suite from Frida for

Kazan Co-op Theatre, Anna I in KurtWeill’sDieSieben Todsünden, for the lotusflower newmusicproject,DespinainMozart’sCosifanTutte,PaminainTheMagicFlutefortheSanDiegoOpera Ensemble, Erste Knaben in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, First Handmaiden in Puccini’sTurandotfortheSanDiegoOpera,MissSilverpealinTheImpresario forSouthDakotaSymphonyandtheroleoftheOperaSingerinParisCommuneforLaJollaPlayhouse.DuringhertenureatSanDiegoOperaasanEnsemblemember,sheunderstudiedtherolesofMarzellineinFidelio,SuzanneinTobiasPicker’sThérèseRaquinandLéila inBizet’sLesPêcheursdesPerles.Oratoriohighlightsinclude the soprano soloist inHandel’sMessiah with Vancouver Symphony, Eva inHaydn’sDieSchöpfungwithLaJollaSymphony,andsopranosoloistinbothMendelssohn’sLobgesangeandtheStravinskyMasswiththeSanBernardinoSymphony.

As a stage director her innovative, modern and zany adaptations of the standard and

contemporaryoperaticrepertoireincludeBernstein’sTroubleinTahiti,Humperdinck’sHänselundGretel,Mozart’sImpresario,Offenbach’sRSVP:oraMusicaleatMr.Cauliflower’sandMozart’sCosifantutte.AdditionalcreditsincludetheBizet/BrookLaTragédiedeCarmenforOperaonTapSanFrancisco,Bernstein’sCandide forPasadenaOpera,andMariadeBuenosAiresbyAstorPiazzollawithlibrettobyHoracioFerrerforCalStateSanBernardino.

Recent productions include three chamber operas by American composer Robert Xavier

Rodriguez,MonkeySeeMonkeyDo,TangoandConcertSuite fromFridaaswell asher acclaimedQuentin Tarantino inspired production of Donizetti’sDonPasquale for CSUSB. In 2012 StaceyassistedCanadiandirectorKellyRobinsononMozart’sDonGiovanni at theBanffCentre for theArts.Shehasalsocollaboratedonseveralproductionswithdancer/choreographerFaithJensen-IsmayofthecriticallyacclaimedSanDiegoDanceCompany,MojaletDanceCollective.

SheholdsaDoctorateinContemporaryMusicPerformancefromUniversityofCalifornia,

San Diego, and Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Manhattan School of Music and aBachelorofMusicinVocalPerformancefromtheUniversityofToronto.SheiscurrentlyProfessorofMusicandDirectorofOperaTheatreatCaliforniaStateUniversity,SanBernardino.ProfessionalaffiliationsandmembershipsincludeAGMA,CanadianActorsEquityandNATS.