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Regional Championships: North of England

Championship Section Summary

Year Winners Conductor Test piece
2026 EverReady David Morton Elgar Variations, Martin Ellerby
2025 NASUWT Riverside Brass Professor Nicholas J Childs Diversions for Brass Band, Derek Bourgeois
2024 Easington Colliery Allan Withington Variations on an Enigma, Philip Sparke
2023 NASUWT Riverside Dr Robert Childs Red Priest, Philip Wilby
2022 NASUWT Riverside Prof Nicholas Childs Contest Music, Wilfred Heaton
2020 NASUWT Riverside Professor Nicholas J Childs A Tale as Yet Untold, Philip Sparke
2019 EYMS Stig Mærsk Seascapes, Ray Steadman-Allen
2018 NASUWT Riverside David Roberts Odyssey, Kevin Norburry
2017 NASUWT Riverside David Roberts Pageantry, Herbert Howells
2016 Reg Vardy Russell Gray Cambridge Variations, Philip Sparke
2015 Reg Vardy Russell Gray The Torchbearer, Peter Graham
2014 Reg Vardy Russell Gray St Magnus, Kenneth Downie
2013 NASUWT Riverside Ray Farr Harmony Music, Philip Sparke
2012 Felling Stephen Malcolm The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, Derek Bourgeois
2011 Reg Vardy Dr Nicholas Childs Paganini Variations, Philip Wilby
2010 Reg Vardy Dr. N. Childs English Heritage, George Lloyd
2009 EYMS Dr. R. Childs Salute to Youth, Gilbert Vinter
2008 Reg Vardy Dr. N. Childs Festival Music, Eric Ball
2007 Reg Vardy R. Farr Isaiah 40, Robert Redhead
2006 Reg Vardy Ray Farr Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Peter Graham
2005 Reg Vardy Ray Farr Rienzi, Richard Wagner arr. Howard Lorriman
2004 (Reg Vardy) Ever Ready Ray Farr Tristan Encounters, Martin Ellerby
2003 Ever Ready R. Gray Prague, Judith Bingham
2002 Ever Ready N Childs Whitsun Wakes, Michael Ball
2001 Fishburn I. Robinson Jazz, Philip Wilby
2000 Ever Ready N. Childs Variations on an Enigma, Philip Sparke
1999 Ever Ready N. Childs Blitz, Derek Bourgeois
1998 EYMS J. Roberts Montage, Peter Graham
1997 EYMS A. Snell A Lowry Sketchbook, Philip Wilby
1996 EYMS R. Childs Sounds, John Golland
1995 Fishburn I. Robinson Un Vie de Matelot, Robert Farnon
1994 Ever Ready P. Parkes Partita, Philip Sparke
1993 Ever Ready P. Parkes Of Men and Mountains, Edward Gregson
1992 Fishburn I. Robinson Frontier, Michael Ball
1991 Ever Ready P. Parkes Journey Into Freedom, Eric Ball
1990 Ever Ready P. Parkes The Beacons, Ray Stadman-Allen
1989 Ever Ready P. Parkes Prisms, Peter Graham


Harlow Brass Band - SPRING CONCERT - AN ANIMATION SENSATION

Saturday 16 May • St Andrew's Methodist Church. The Stow. Harlow. CM20 3AF


Sherborne Town Band - Free-Music in the park

Sunday 17 May • Dorchester- Park Bandstand DT1 1RG


Newstead Brass - Mansfield MVC - Brass and Voices

Sunday 24 May • Forest Town Arena. Clipstone Road West,. Mansfield NG19 0EE


Contest: Whit Friday March Contests

Friday 29 May • Saddleworth & Tameside OL3


The Hepworth Band - Brassband Burgermusik Luzern

Saturday 30 May • Dewsbury Minster, Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 8DD


Hathern Band

May 10 • Due to University placement we require a Bb Bass player- we are a First Section band based at our own band room in the village of Hathern LE12 5LJ Leicestershire (between M1 Jcts 23 & 24) and close to Lougborough and Nottingham Universities


Newstead Brass

May 10 • Newstead Brass are on the lookout for a talented 2nd BARITONE player to join our ambitious and hardworking Nottinghamshire-based Championship Section band.. A rare chance to become part of an ambitious brass band striving for even greater success together.


Ibstock Brick Brass

May 9 • Ibstock Brick Brass are looking for a Solo Cornet, 3rd Cornet, 2nd Horn, Bass Trombone and B Flat Tuba as we move into the second section from 2027. We are a friendly, ambitions and progressive band that rehearse at our own bandroom in Coalville.


John Durrant

MA LLCM TD CertEd (Dist)
Conductor, Band Trainer, Composer, Trumpet and Cornet Soloist, Arranger, Adjudicator


               

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