As a resident of Adelaide and citizen of Australia, William Broughton (composer/artist/conductor/producer, author and motivational speaker) spends his time composing and arranging commissions for various genres in Orchestra, Concert Band, Brass Band, Big band and other musical groups. He was, from 2003-2007, part-time lecturer at Adelaide University Elder School of Music with large and small ensembles, composition/arranging, film scoring, one to one tutoring and brass masters classes. He also travels interstate lecturing at other schools, performing as conductor and soloist as well as giving motivational presentations.

“Performing,” says Bill Broughton “is a gift you have to give away.” And Bill has given a lot in his thirty-some year career not only as a virtuoso trombonist, but as a composer, conductor, writer and producer as well.

Bill Broughton began his career as a studio musician in 1968 and soon was playing lead trombone for television and motion picture studios in Hollywood.

A small list of the television shows is Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Little House On The Prairie, Kojak, Police Woman, and Hawaii 5-0.

Just two of many motion pictures that Bill has played on are Jaws 2, and The Godfather II.

As a player, Bill performed for artists from Sinatra to Streisand, but also enjoyed tenure with The Roger Wagner Chorale and Symphonia Orchestra, The New York Ballet (West Coast performances), San Francisco Ballet, Glendale Symphony and other organizations. It was there that he came to the attention of the top composers and conductors like David Rose, Lalo Schifrin, Morton Stevens, and Carmen Dragon.

With that kind of encouragement, Bill moved easily into the next phase of his career. Composing for shows like “Quincy, M.E.,” “Hawaii 5-0,” “BJ and the Bear,” “The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo,” “The Tonight Show,” “Buck Rogers,” “The Fall Guy,” “It Happened One Christmas,” (Movie of the week) “Wheels,” (movie of the week) and others, he soon accumulated an impressive resume of nearly 100 musical scores for television. He also had several Symphonic and other commissioned compositions premiered as well.

For five years Bill was the executive producer of over 70 major musical comedy productions for Bullwinkle’s Inc. Writing many scripts and all of the music, Bill eventually compiled more than 50 songs over 100 scripts using the original cartoon voices of Bill Scott, (Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right) and June Foray, (Rocky and Natasha).