Shena Fraser

[1] She was born in Stirling, Scotland, and studied piano performance with Henry Wilson, and composition with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London.

[3] Fraser had a lifelong interest in choral music for women and the teaching of amateur and younger musicians.

They include Carillon (1957), To Him Give Praise (1959–60), A Ring of Jewels (1975) and A Boy was Born (1988), all for women’s voices.

Instrumental works include the Sonatina for flute (1989) and the two Sea Poems for piano duo (1988), which were adapted from her 1972 cantata Full Fathom Five.

After marriage Fraser taught piano privately and held a weekly Aural Training class for children aged six to eight.