Fricker became visiting professor of music at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1964 and moved with his wife to Goleta, Santa Barbara the following year. Six years later, he took a permanent position at this university; he became chairman of the Music Department in 1970, and was appointed "faculty research lecturer" in 1979, the highest academic honour which the university bestows on its faculty. However, he maintained links with the UK and Europe through the International Society for Contemporary Music and the Composers' Guild of Great Britain. From 1984 to 1986 he was president of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music and Literature in England. He continued to compose large-scale works, including his Fourth and Fifth symphonies, the oratorio Whispers at these Curtains op 88 (1984) setting John Donne, and the Concerto for Orchestra, composed for the 1986 festival. His final orchestral work, Walk by Quiet Waters (1988), was written for the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra, for which he had become composer in residence. But Fricker died the following year, of cancer of the throat, in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Works Oratorio, The Vision of Judgement (1958) Symphony No. 1 (1949) Symphony No. 2 (1951) Symphony No. 3 (1960) Symphony No. 4 (1966) Symphony No. 5 (1976) Concerto for Orchestra (1986) Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Small Orchestra (1950) Concertante for Cor Anglais and Strings (1950) Concertante No. 2 for three pianos, strings and timpani (1951) Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1953) Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra (1954) Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra (Rapsodia Concertante) (1954) Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra (1989) String Quartet No. 1 (1948) String Quartet No. 2 (1953) String Quartet No. 3 (1976) Violin Sonata No. 1 (1950) Violin Sonata No. 2 (1987) [Partial List, Complete Catalog can be found online at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library] Discography Symphony No. 2 (with Robert Simpson Symphony No. 1 / Robin Orr Symphony in One Movement). Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir John Pritchard, EMI Classics, November 2002 (reissue from 2 LPs, the first coupling the Fricker and Simpson.) Violin Sonatas 1 (1950) and 2 (1987) (with Alan Rawsthorne/Vaughan Williams violin sonatas). Susanne Stanzeleit (violin) / Julian Jacobson (piano) Cala Records, September 2000 A Babe is Born (Choral piece) on "Hodie: An English Christmas Collection". The Sixteen / Harry Christophers Coro Records October 2001 Cello Sonata (Julian