About

Jefferson Todd Frazier (todd@jtoddfrazier.com)is a composer, educator and non-profit leader. He is the Founder of the American Festival for the Arts (afatexas.org), serves as Executive Director of Young Audiences of Houston (yahouston.org) – the managing partner of Houston Arts Partners (houstonartspartners.org) and is the Managing Director for The Center for Performing Arts Medicine at The Methodist Hospital (methodistperformingarts.com). His work in the non profit sector focuses on the arts as a unique and dynamic common denominator in strategic collaboration. He is currently working on research, education and accessibility collaborations between the K-12 Education, University, Texas Medical Center, and the Arts and Culture communities in Houston, TX. 

He received his undergraduate and graduate training from The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and The Juilliard School in New York, NY. He has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, serves as a Director of the Texas Lyceum and is a Fellow of the US-Japan Foundation’s Leadership Program. On the occasion of the Juilliard School’s 100th anniversary in 2006, Frazier was recognized as one of 100 distinguished alumni and profiled in the Juilliard Journal’s “A Quiet Revolution: Juilliard Alumni and The Transformation of Education in America Through the Arts.”