Norman Fraser

Norman George Fraser (26 November 1904–1986) was a Chilean-born English pianist and composer.

Fraser was born in Valparaiso in Chile of Scottish and Spanish parents.

[1] He studied music in Chili and Lausanne, Switzerland before moving to England in 1917 to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Carlo Albanesi, taking additional piano lessons with Isidor Philipp in Paris.

[2] He then returned to England to study piano with Tobias Matthay for three years, and established himself as a concert pianist and teacher.

[1] Fraser was employed by the BBC from 1935 to 1943, where he was a programmer for the Latin American Service.