Fraser Linklater
Biography
Fraser Linklater (b. 17 January 1954 in Winnipeg, Canada) is a conductor, composer, educator, and clinician.
Now retired from the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Linklater directed the wind ensemble, concert band, and chamber winds and taught courses in music education and conducting from 1999 to 2016. In 2014, Dr. Linklater was presented with the National Band Award for his contributions to wind bands in Canada.
Since retiring, he has continued to transcribe, arrange, and compose music for wind band. In 2020, Fraser was awarded the Howard Cable Memorial Prize in Composition by the Canadian Band Association. As a service to music education, Fraser’s compositions, transcriptions, and music education resources are offered free online at the Manitoba Band Association website (see resources below).
Works for Winds
- Affirmation Spring (as arranger)
- All Around the Circle (as arranger)
- Always
- Bayreuth Festspiel
- Bird in Flight
- Bridge of Sighs
- A Child's Garden of Verses
- Child's Play (2021)
- Coming Unraveled
- Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2022)
- Danse! (as arranger)
- East Coast Girl (as arranger)
- En Roulant! (as arranger)
- Eternal Trumpet
- Fantastic!
- Frenergy (as transcriber) (1998/2011)
- Gaude! Gaude! (as arranger)
- Hallelujah!
- Hey Ho!
- Icescapes (2021)
- IFS Light
- Laudate (2021)
- A Little Night Music
- Lollipop Suite
- Magic Mountain
- Mercury Rising
- Musician Français
- A New Awakening
- Nordic Flight (2020)
- Piazza di Venice
- Prague Spring
- Prairie Hymn
- Prairie Spring
- Quebec Meets Liverpool
- Russian Rhapsody
- Russian Winter
- Samurai Cowboys
- Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 46 (as arranger) (1878/)
- Soviet Circus
- Sprouts
- T-Rex
- Variations Pathétique
- Vienna 1900
- Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare (as transcriber) (1924/)
- What was the Question?
- Wind from the East
- Wind Rites
- Wind Symphonies
Resources
- Manitoba Band Association Accessed 26 March 2022