Barrie Gott

Barrie Gott has an impressive professional music career spanning five decades. He has excelled across the range of orchestral, brass and concert bands, and choral works. His expertise as a composer, arranger, conductor, educator, and adjudicator has taken him to the world stage.

His compositions are published in the United Kingdom, USA, and Australia, and are featured on concert programs worldwide. For his services to banding, he was awarded the Frank Wright medal.

As a trumpet player, he has worked with the National Training Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, and performed as a studio musician in Australia and America. He is the former owner and musical director of the Queensland Pops Orchestra, working with Australian and international artists.

Barrie has taught at all levels of education in private and government sectors and was Director of Instrumental Music at Azusa Pacific University in California, where he was responsible for the Symphony Choir and Orchestra, concert band and jazz ensemble.

Barrie has served as Bandmaster for Salvation Army bands in Sydney, Brisbane, and Pasadena. He is also a former Musical Director of the Brisbane Excelsior Brass Band and the National Brass Band Australia. He served as President of the National Band Council of Australia and continues to be in demand as an adjudicator and clinician for eisteddfods and festivals.

Barrie is the inaugural conductor of the Fraser Coast Orchestra in South East Queensland, Australia. He maintains his playing career by participating in the Maryborough Brass Band, The TNT Big Band and the local Salvation Army corps band.