Fraser became a member of Anúna in the early 2010s, starting when he was leading the music at St Bartholomew’s Church. His career had already included an organ scholarship at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin plus time as a player and singer in Sheffield and Scotland. His time in Anúna featured recordings, festivals including Les Nuit des Choeurs, the Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic composed by Philip Hammond in Belfast in 2014, the inaugural Anúna Summer School in 2011, a snowily memorable January Netherlands tour, a fortnight of palely imitating Michael on tenor when everyone else was sick, and much else - and he was especially proud that the St Bartholomew’s link, through which Lucy worked with the choristers and the group found its Dublin home, was so fruitful for everyone.

Returning to England, he founded the choral group Albion for whom he composed and arranged a whole new repertoire based on the music of the British Isles a collection of over 100 pieces. The group was known for its direct connection with audiences and its ability to musically inhabit any space, including caves, mountaintops, living rooms - and for its own range of Albion Ales, courtesy of the Abbeydale Brewery.

He is now associate composer of the acclaimed vocal ensemble Apollo5. His piece “Wishes” was the first single release from their recent album “O Radiant Dawn” and topped the U.K. Classical Charts. Together they are working on a major new project. Fraser’s music is heard around the world and he is about to begin working with the French group Ensemble Perspectives. He’s also working with the Norfolk and Norwich Festival on improving cultural education for children and young people.

 www.fraserwilson.org.uk 

"Anúna has been so fundamental to me as a musician and a person. I was really humbled to be part of the group, and it fed so much of what I’ve done since. The fundamental message - that it is not only OK but vital to be all of you in the world, and that you can achieve that through singing with others - is so powerful - and it all comes back home to the breath, to finding flow. 

Anúna is responsible for some of my most memorable experiences ever. Cycling through the Apeldoorn forest in January with my friends, singing the “Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic”, a marriage proposal onstage in Gothenburg, endless gorgeous music, the first summer school where the influence of our work really became clear, little moments of connection on and off stage - times of huge truth, connection and beauty. 

I learned that it is important to do your work and to take to the stage with enough uncertainty to be human, and to be flawed and real and truthful in front of audiences and each other. And that you can be bold and brave in any place, and be all of you, and that that can move mountains. 

Michael generously mentored and supported me, and all of us, in our own music-making beyond the group. He taught me about the Great Song, the importance of simplicity, and the freedom that can be found in form. Whenever I hear Apollo5 singing my music on the radio, or a request for a piece comes in from around the world, or I find some spark with singers in a workshop, or I take to the stage myself, I know it wouldn’t have happened this way without those amazing years in Anúna, and I think of them very fondly.”