The Croydon Wind Symphony is our senior wind ensemble. Originally founded in 1971, the Croydon Wind Symphony boasts a regular membership of around forty musicians.
We perform regularly in the community through our own concert series and we compete in State and National Championships on occasion. The Band won the Victorian B Grade State Championship in 2000, 2002, and 2017, and was runner-up at the Australian National Band Championships in 2018.
The band performs in December every year at the Maroondah Carols for an audience of more than 5,000. In the past, it has played with Australian personalities including Barry Crocker, Judi Connelli, Colleen Hewitt, Tony Barber, and Darrel Cotton.
The band rehearses at Brushy Creek Hall, 435 Maroondah Hwy Croydon North, on most Wednesday evenings between 8 pm and 10 pm.
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David Billimoria has been involved in community music for over two decades, playing with a number of bands in eastern Melbourne. He joined the Croydon Wind Symphony over twenty years ago and has been involved in every aspect of the band as a musician, committee member, band manager and since 2014, as our Musical Director.
David has wide ranging experience in community music organisations and is a former President of the Victorian Bands’ League (VBL) and Secretary of the Australian Band and Orchestra Director’s Association (ABODA).
With a wide-ranging taste in music, David aims to keep rehearsals and performances fun and engaging for band members and audiences alike by performing a variety of music from many different genres, including pop culture, television, and movies, as well as classic concert band repertoire from composers such as Grainger, Holst, Erickson, and more.
In more recent years David has been regularly involved with CPP Community Theatre as a production musician, Assistant Musical Director (The Sound of Music), and Musical Director (Fiddler on the Roof, Anything Goes).