Boca Raton Middle School www.palmbeach.12.fl.us/bocams/band Palm Beach Community College Summer Youth College Music Educators National Conference www.menc.org Florida Band Masters Association New England Conservatory of Music Boca Raton Middle School Band A Brief Biography Mike Fraley was born in upstate New York. After middle school his family moved to Ipswich, Mass. (just north of Boston) While still in high school he studied at the famous Berklee School of Music in Boston. He is a graduate of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music also in Boston, where he attended on a scholarship. He has been a performer/teacher throughout Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Virginia and Florida. He has worked for Cunard and Norwegian Cruise Lines traveling thoughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Northern Europe, Israel, Greece, Italy, Ireland and Egypt. As a performer he has performed with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry including: Suzanne Summers, Leslie Uggams, Jim Nabors, The Fifth Dimension, Jerry Van Dyke, Sid Caesar, Trini Lopez, Eartha Kitt, Jim Stafford, Kay Stevens, Shields and Yarnell, Rita Moreno, Phyllis Diller, Audry Landers and Lorna Luft. As a jazz musician he has performed with Ira Sullivan, Miroslav Vitous, George Russell, Jimmy Guiffre, Victor Wooton, Rosemary Clooney, and The Glenn Miller Orchestra. Now based in South Florida he is married with a daughter and spends his time teaching (Director of Music at Boca Raton Middle School) and performing in a variety of ensembles, including his own group "The Mike Fraley Quartet/Trio".