Geoffrey Payne (born c. 1957)[1] is a noted Australian classical trumpeter.
He won a major prize in the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition (now known as the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards) in 1983,[4] and in 1984 won First Prize in the 22nd International Trumpet Competition in Budapest, Hungary.
[1] Overseas groups he has played with include Hiroyuki Iwaki's Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan,[1][2] and the International Trumpet Guild in Michigan[3] and the San Diego Symphony (Guest Principal Trumpet) in the United States.
[6] He has made a number of recordings, featuring concertos by Alexander Arutiunian, Vincenzo Bellini, Domenico Cimarosa, Joseph Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, William Lovelock, Richard Mills, Henri Tomasi and Carl Maria von Weber, with the MSO conducted by John Hopkins and Michael Halász.
[9] His wife Julie is second trumpet in the MSO and his sister and brother-in-law teach music in Guernsey.