University of the Underground

Fraz Ireland (www.frazdotcom.com) is a Manchester-based composer and conceptual artist whose work often explores a provocative and sometimes jovial relationship with their audience. Their work often incorporates text and video elements and can sometimes be found lurking in the corridors between liminal spaces, and engages with well established traditions, including, but not limited to, dining, digging and destroying…

They were a Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2020 and have worked with ensembles including the Riot Ensemble , BBC singers and the Ligeti Quartet. In 2016 they were awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Duet prize for composers under 18 and appointed Wigmore Hall Apprentice composer-in-residence. In the past year Fraz has made an interactive soundscape as the composer-in-residence for a conference, a brass fanfare imitating the sounds of traffic and various warning sounds that was performed in St Paul’s Cathedral, and a choose-your-own-adventure style piano piece with choose-your-own-adventure style program notes.