Tuba player and music educator Fraser Russell began playing tuba in Carnoustie High School, Scotland under the tuition of Michael Robertson. He then went on to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), the Swedish National Orchestra Academy, Gothenburg; and completed his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln / Orchesterzentrum NRW. 

Fraser has been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to perform with several of Europe's top orchestras and ensembles including the Estonian Festival Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken und Kaiserslautern, St. Petersburg Ballet, Norlands Opera and Symphony Orchestra, Staatsoperetta Dresden, Ghera Theater Orchester, World Brass, Gothenburg Wind Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Brass and Popical Ensembles, Scottish Chamber Orchestra Brass Quintet, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Fraser regularly performers as a stagemusician at the Semperoper in Dresden where he currently resides. 

These performances have taken place in some of the worlds most prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall (UK) at the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall (UK), Elbphilharmonie (Germany) Berlin Philharmonie (Germany), Vienna Konzerthaus (Austria), Gothenburg Konzerthaus (Sweden), the Danish Radio Concert Hall (Denmark), Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (France) Zürich Tonhalle (Switzerland), Suntory Hall (Japan) and the Mariinsky Konzerthaus (Russia). These performances have been with several of the world's finest conductors including Paavo Järvi, Kristian Järvi, Sir Roger Norrington, Kurt Masur, Stéphan Denève, Martyn Brabbins, Gary Walker, Alexander Shelly and numerous others. 

A passionate educator, Fraser worked for several years with Live Music Now! Scotland and in 2018, was selected from an international pool of candidates to be a cohort member of the Global Leaders Program, a teaching artistry a programme run by the Youth Orchestras of the Americas. As part of this programme Fraser has visited Chile, Sweden and Jamaica where he worked extensively with the brass and wind community delivering workshops, lessons and masterclasses over a period of two weeks in March 2018. Whilst in Jamaica Fraser performed the World Premier of "Heavy - Big Flying Machine" by Scottish composer Richard Greer. 

Now based in Dresden, Germany, Fraser holds the position of Orchestra Director for the award winning music for social change project Musaik -Grenzenlos Musizieren e.V, as well as tuba teacher and coach for Spielmanzug Oberlichtenau. In 2021 Fraser was appointed as teacher of tuba and tenorhorn in the Heinrich Schutz Konservatorium Dresden.

Fraser is thankful for the support of the Dewar Awards for financial assistance in the purchase of instruments.