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Fraser Jackson

Fraser Jackson has been the Contrabassoonist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 1990 and has performed and toured with both the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington DC) and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

A founding member of The Caliban Quartet, Fraser is an active chamber musician, playing annually at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. In July, 2002, he was the artist-in-residence at the 5th International Contrabassoon Festival in Park City, Utah

Fraser also performs on period contrabassoons and has appeared with Toronto’s Aradia Baroque Orchestra in recent recordings for the Naxos label and with the Montreal Baroque Band on ATMA.

Head of Winds, Brass and Percussion, Fraser also teaches bassoon and chamber music at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music. Also a teacher at the University of Toronto, he has been a coach with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.

A native of Ottawa, he obtained his music degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

"Fraser Jackson’s contra playing is, as usual, dazzling and sonorous."

− The Double Reed, 2001