About Fugue State Films

Fugue State Films makes engaging and engrossing films about classical music for the discerning viewer released digitally or as beautifully-produced multi-DVD boxsets. Reviews include: 'You should buy this set. Mortgage your house, but get it!' (Musicweb International).

Every recent film has been 'DVD of the month' in Gramophone Magazine, and awards include 'Best DVD' in the BBC Music Magazine Awards twice, and the Deutschen Schallplattenkritikpreis three times. Fugue State even made the six o'clock news in New Zealand.

Fugue State Films was founded by Will Fraser in 2007. He grew up in the west of England and the east of Canada. He was educated at three contrasting universities, Dalhousie in Canada, Cambridge in the UK, and the University of Mississippi in the USA. His films about music include Martinikerk Rondeau, The Genius of Cavaillé-Coll, Maximum Reger, The Great Toccata and Messiaen's Musical Universe. He is currently making The Organ in America.

He also writes fiction, and his first novel, Cloister, was published in 2025. He is fascinated by America and has made three films about the country so far – Soul Searching for the Blues, Once Upon a Time in Knoxville and Cowboy and Preacher: the Life and Times of Tri Robinson. This last film premiered in Hollywood at the 2018 Dances with Films festival, and in 2025 had US national prime time broadcasts on PBS World.