A dynamic music educator, Heather Fraser is Artistic Director of the Annapolis Valley Honour Choir, the Aeolian Singers, and a music specialist in the Halifax Regional Centre for Education. Heather is an active collaborative pianist and clinician, and has adjudicated for festivals across Canada. Believing strongly in the power of choral music to build community, Heather sits on program committees for Nova Scotia Choral Federation, and is VP of Advocacy for Choral Canada. This role has kept her busy, advocating for equitable treatment of singing communities across the country throughout the pandemic, arranging webinars and discussions for choirs of all kinds, and finding ways to keep singers connected in the last two years from coast to coast to coast. She was also a member of the working group in Nova Scotia that fought for the return of singing in schools, and is a member of the newly formed Nova Scotia Music Education Council.

An Apprentice Conductor of the 2010 National Youth Choir of Canada, Heather has also studied at Westminster Choir College Institute with Charles Bruffy, and was Conducting Fellow with the Canadian Chamber Choir (2015). She was the first conductor of Pro Coro Canada’s Emerging Artist program, just one part of a professional development sabbatical year studying conducting and pedagogy with conductors and choirs across Canada and the USA.