Trumpeter Fred Mills Dies

By Rose Scott and Lois Reitzes

Atlanta, GA – (( fred mills playing with ))

Typically the brass section of a symphony orchestra sits at the back, but Fred Mills and the Canadian Brass had a different idea…

They took their ensemble to center stage, and in the spotlight.

((music))

A founding member of the Canadian Brass…Mills studied at the famed Juilliard School in New York City and went on to play with the American Symphony Orchestra and theNew York City Ballet Orchestra.

He became part of the Music brass faculty at the University of Georgia in 1996.

Teaching would only add to his legacy says Dale Monson of UGA's Hugh Hodgson school of Music:

((he has taught someone ))

UGA officials say a memorial service will be planned celebrating the trumpeter's life.

Fred Mills was 74 years old.