Born in Boston, MA in 1991, Henry Fraser moved to NYC in 2014, and has been actively working on a diverse array of projects since. Collaborating with such artists as Ka Baird, John Zorn, Uniform, Mary Halvorson, Randall Dunn and Joey Arias, he has toured throughout the US and abroad, playing venues including the Moers Festival, Unsound Festival, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Fraser’s raw working materials - the ultimate treatment of which can vary greatly - emerge through collaboration and by engaging with myriad musical forms unto which an improvisational framework can be mapped; these are often communal, ceremonial, psychedelic, and/or religious forms. This dialogical approach privileges no particular sound world or aesthetic, but rather implies a value system whereby the artist(s) themselves - their personal history - are salient in the work. Since 2019, Fraser has focused heavily on solo music for the double bass, culminating in three releases and establishing him as a technical and creative force among his generation of bassists - his fourth solo record, Pneuma, is slated for release by Kou Records in early 2026. Fraser was selected as a fellow for the Art OMI Music residency (2021), was named a NYSCA/NYFA Finalist in the category of Music/Sound (2022), was a music resident at Pioneer Works (2025) and most recently had a residency at The Stone (2025). In 2023, he joined Carnegie Hall’s Future Music Project as a Teaching Artist, facilitating music workshops with incarcerated youth in NYC.