Fred Mills (musician)

[specify] He attended the Juilliard School of Music and held honorary doctorates from the New England Conservatory in Boston and Hartwick College.

The Canadian Brass ensemble performed hundreds of his arrangements including Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, which appeared on the album The Pachelbel Canon and Other Great Baroque Hits, released in 1980.

[1] 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.

100% of the profits from the CD benefit the W. Fred Mills Scholarship fund at the University of Georgia, Athens.