Education
He attended the Juilliard School of Music and held honorary doctorates from the New England Conservatory in Boston and Hartwick College.
((Brass). Trumpet parts edited and recorded by Canadian Br...)
(Brass). Trumpet parts edited and recorded by Canadian Brass virtuosos Fred Mills and Ronald Romm, piano parts recorded by Bill Casey. Arrangements by Bill Boyd. Companiion CD includes full performances and accompaniments. Contents: Arietta * The Brook * Cleopatra's Lament * Dance a Cachucha * Gypsy Song * La Danza * Lydia * Mandolin * Rondeau * Serenade * Solace * Trumpet Air.
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He attended the Juilliard School of Music and held honorary doctorates from the New England Conservatory in Boston and Hartwick College.
He also played solo, first-chair trumpet with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, the New York City Opera Orchestra, the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada, the Casals Festival Orchestra in Puerto Rico and others, according to a biography from the University of Georgia. The Canadian Brass ensemble performed hundreds of his arrangements including Toccata and Fugue in Doctorate minor, BWV 565, which appeared on the album The Pachelbel Canon and Other Great Baroque Hits, released in 1980. On September 7, 2009, Mills was killed in a car crash in Walton County, about 45 miles east of Atlanta.
Mills was driving to his Athens home from Atlanta’s airport after a trip to Quincinetto Italy where he was a soloist at the Pentabrass Festival.
A Civil Defense in Mills" honor has been released by AppleJazz Records. 100% of the profits from the Civil Defense benefit the West. Fred Mills Scholarship fund at the University of Georgia, Athens.
Ragtime Renaissance Men Brass Theater II with Star of Indiana.
((Brass). Trumpet parts edited and recorded by Canadian Br...)
