Scott Fraser is a Grammy-winning recording, mixing, mastering, and concert engineer, producer, and sound designer for acoustic music recordings and live performances. He specializes in classical, jazz, folk, world and avant-garde genres. In a career spanning multiple decades he has engineered over 700 albums, as well as having mixed thousands of concerts worldwide.

Since 1992 he has toured extensively as sound designer for the Kronos Quartet. Scott has mixed over a thousand concerts for Kronos, in venues including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Kennedy Center, Disney Hall, La Scala, Concertgebouw, etc.

Scott co-produced, recorded, and mixed the Laurie Anderson/Kronos Quartet collaboration Landfall, which won the 2018 Grammy for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. He co-produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered You’ve Stolen My Heart, an album of Bollywood classics, interpreted by Kronos, featuring the legendary vocalist Asha Bhosle. In 2005 it was nominated for a Grammy in the World Music category. Scott also engineered The Ten Thousand Things, music of John Cage, as well as the Harry Partch compendium Bitter Music, both of which were Grammy nominees. In 2021, Scott recorded tracks for Opium Moon’s Night + Day CD, and mixed & mastered classical guitarist Mak Grgic’s Mak|Bach CD, both of which received Grammy nominations.

Scott has also worked with artists as diverse as Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, The Residents, Harold Budd, The Klezmatics, Katia & Marielle Lebeque, Tigran Hamasyan, Sandra Tsing-Loh and Mel Tormé.

Scott has taught recording master classes at Tainan University of Technology in Taiwan, New York University in Abu Dhabi, & Scripps College in Claremont, California.