WindSong

Eric Klay

Eric Klay has been the Principal Bass Trombone of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 1977. Prior to this appointment he performed with the Elizabethan Trust Mlebourne Orchestra from 1976 - 77. He studied with Mr Roger Davies at The University of Melbourns, Faculty of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree.

Eugène Bozza

Eugène Bozza (1905–1991) was a French composer and violinist, best known for a large body of chamber music for wind instruments. His larger works include symphonies, operas and ballets, though these are seldom performed outside France.

Ross Edwards

One of Australia's best known and most performed composers, Ross Edwards lives and works in Sydney. His commitment to music as a positive and regenerative force has led him to explore beyond the confines of Western art music.

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington wrote jazz that slips past easy labels: three-minute standards thick with colour, growl and hush, and longer suites built for the voices of a big band. His orchestra was the instrument; the songs still own the night.

George Gershwin

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose music spanned popular song, Broadway and the classical concert hall, leaving melodies that remain widely known.

Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) was an American composer of musical theatre whose songs became standards of the twentieth-century stage and screen. Over five decades he wrote more than nine hundred songs and dozens of Broadway musicals.

Paul Sarcich

Paul Sarcich is a New Zealand-born composer and percussionist whose music is marked by rhythmic drive, dramatic flair and a practical ear for what performers need.

Lawrence Whiffin

Lawrence Whiffin (1930–2012) was a Melbourne-born composer, pianist and teacher. After years abroad he returned to Australia as Senior Tutor at La Trobe University, where teaching harmony and analysis also freed him to write more concert music.

John Barrett

John Barrett brings a warm, improvising saxophone voice to Melbourne sessions and the World Rhythm Band, writing pieces that swing from tropical funk to carillon colour with the same easy fluency across reeds, didjeridu and keys.

Robert Clérisse

Damien Collis

Peter De Visser

Peter De Visser is an arranger whose work appears on Australian brass recordings.

Frank De Vol

Piano technician

Brent Ottley

Notes

Eric Klay

Eric Klay has been the Principal Bass Trombone of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 1977. Prior to this appointment he performed with the Elizabethan Trust Mlebourne Orchestra from 1976 - 77. He studied with Mr Roger Davies at The University of Melbourns, Faculty of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree.

Layout and graphic design

Martin Wright

Recording engineer and director of Move Records, Martin Wright has well over fifty years’ experience in the industry and has been widely recognised for the calibre of his recordings.

Front cover photograph

Paul Wright

Photograph of Eric Klay

Ron Layton