Fraser Jackson plays bassoon and contrabassoon in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with such groups as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Outside of his orchestral work, Fraser is one of the most versatile bassoonists going, throwing himself happily into everything from gnarly contemporary music to period instrument performance, jazz and commercial music. He has co-founded three chamber groups: The Caliban Quartet, Musica Franca, and Duo de Margerie-Jackson. Caliban produced three CD's, the first of which, BassOOnatics! remains the world's all-time best-selling bassoon album. Caliban's baroque spin-off, Musica Franca, is the only baroque performance group to use the contrabassoon as a continuo instrument; their work was chosen as a musical example in Bruce Haynes' famous treatise on performance practice, The End of Early Music. Fraser also performs regularly with Toronto-based groups like New Music Concerts and he was a long-time guest of the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival.  A keen proponent of music education,  he has performed for thousands of schoolchildren throughout Ontario as a member of the TSO Woodwind Trio. With his wife, pianist Monique de Margerie, he recently recorded Home Suite Home, an album based on the front porch music series they founded during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. As a concerto soloist, Fraser has performed with such groups as the US National Repertory Orchestra, the USC Symphony, the Georgian Bay Symphony Orchestra, and Burlington's Symphony on the Bay. Fraser teaches bassoon in the summers at the Cammac Festival in Quebec and at Ontario’s Interprovincial Music Camp. Born in Montreal and raised in Ottawa, Fraser holds music degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California where he was one of the last students to graduate from the studio of Norman Herzberg. Fraser has arranged over 80 pieces for various ensembles, some of which are published commercially and most of which involve at least one bassoon. His reduction of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G was performed by his wife and nine members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in February, 2017. He plays a bassoon made in 2018 by Benson Bell.