Brass Ensemble
Brass Ensemble appears on
The Glass Soldier
Music from Hannie Rayson’s play The Glass Soldier. Based on a true story, it is a sincere tribute to Australians who fought in the Great War: people who had little, yet gave everything.
Members of Brass Ensemble
Geoffrey Payne
Geoffrey Payne is an Australian classical trumpeter and long-serving Principal Trumpet of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. A first-prize winner at the 1984 International Trumpet Competition in Budapest, he records as a soloist and chamber musician.
Bill Evans
Bill Evans wrote jazz that other players keep returning to: Blue in Green with its spare lyric line, the open ground of Nardis, and the gentle Children's Play Song. The pieces sit among standards because they already behave like them.
David Farrands
David Farrands is an Australian trumpeter and arranger. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, he works as a freelance musician with leading Melbourne orchestras and is a member of the Melbourne Brass Ensemble.
Brett Kelly
Brett Kelly conducts the Academy of Melbourne in classical horn concertos and living Australian scores, shaping orchestral colour that lets the solo line sing and the new work speak with clarity and warmth.
Rolf Kuhlmann
Rolf Kuhlmann is a bassoonist whose recorded work includes chamber and orchestral repertoire.