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Celebrate The Life Of Fred Mills

Mills was born in Guelph, Canada, and began his brass studies on a cornet purchased from a traveling salesman. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City and went on to play with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, Musica Aeterna Orchestra of the Metropolitan Museum, the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, the Casals Festival Orchestra, and the New York City Opera Orchestra.

A founding member of the Canadian Brass, he joined the UGA School of Music brass faculty in September 1996. The Canadian Brass originally began by working for the board of education in Toronto through performing for young people in the schools and establishing a brass chamber music program at the Banff School of Music in the Canadian Rockies. As a professor of trumpet and brass chamber music, Mills continued that long-standing commitment to music education. He remained active in faculty and student brass chamber ensembles at UGA as performer, arranger, and coach.

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“Louise Baranger is an accomplished and experienced instrumentalist with fire, range, and sophistication-strong chops and ideas on trumpet, piccolo trumpet, and flugelhorn.”

—JazzTimes Magazine

“The remarkable trumpeter Louise Baranger has created a magical musical homage to the distinctive Harry James sounds and his unforgettable arrangements.”

—Charles Champlin
L.A. Times Arts Editor