Richard Frazier
Available for lessons on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Richard Frazier is acknowledged as a master teacher of all of the instruments
of the orchestral string family and enjoys making music and teaching the violin,
viola, cello, double bass, trumpet, and tuba. Richard Frazier was on the faculty of the
School of Music at the University of Oregon. Before accepting a position as a
special resource for the Visual and Performing Arts with the San Francisco
Unified School District, he created an award-winning music program at Roosevelt
Middle School in San Francisco. His string pedagogy textbook “Starting Without the
Books” has received a general round of applause from string teachers everywhere.
He has appeared throughout the country as a conductor/composer, adjudicator,
clinician, coach, and performer. His former students number in the thousands and
enjoy vital, music-filled lives performing in community orchestras and bands,
chamber music groups, military ensembles, and professional orchestras, including
the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
In 1978, Mr. Frazier founded a brass quintet, Chicago Chamber Brass, with
which he performed throughout the country and abroad for fifteen years,
and produced recordings that are still prized by brass players worldwide.