Blidworth Welfare Band make their first associate appointment with Fendall Hill becoming Associate Composer. Fendall is a dual citizen, New Zealand-born Australian, based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. A civil engineer by profession, he is married to Oriana, and has three teenage children. He has played cornet since 7 years of age, and was taught by his father, the great New Zealand trombonist Tom Hill. Fendall moved to his natural instrument, the soprano cornet at age