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Regional Championships: North West

Section 2 Summary

Year Winners Conductor Test piece
2026 Lostock Hall Memorial Tommy Tynan 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Philip Harper
2025 Middleton Jamie Cooper Friendly Takeover, Oliver Waespi
2024 Skelmersdale Benjamin Coulson Triptych, Philip Sparke
2023 Whitworth Vale & Healey Michael Golding The Pilgrim's Progress, Rodney Newton
2022 Pemberton Old Wigan DW B Jay Hall The Aeronauts, Goff Richards
2020 Uppermill Dean Redfern The Golden Sabre - Tales of the Hussar-Poet, Denis Davydov (Kit Turnbull)
2019 Bollington Brass Peter Christian Rise of the Phoenix, Darrol Barry
2018 Middleton Kevin Gibbs Ex Terra Lucem, Jonathan Bates
2017 Flixton Ian Brownbill Rhapsody in Brass, Sir Dean Goffin
2016 Haydock Mark Quinn The Mermaid of Zennor, Philip Harper
2015 Tyldesley Robert Taylor Variations on Maccabeus, Kevin Norbury
2014 Mossley Duncan Byers Chaucer's Tunes, Dr Michael Ball
2013 Whitworth Vale & Healey John Binns The Plantaganets, Eric Gregson
2012 Mossley Duncan Byers Cross Patonce, Goff Richards
2011 Morecambe Andrew Warriner Resurgam - Eric Ball
2010 Diggle James Shepherd The Kingdom of Dragons, Philip Harper
2009 Oldham (Lees) John Collins New World Sketches, Dan Price
2008 Wardle and District Anderson Brass S. Conway Three Part Invention, Kenneth Downie
2007 Wardle & District Anderson Brass S. Conway Carnival, Helen Perkin
2006 Blackpool Brass Andrew Warriner Images of the Millennium, Howard Snell
2005 Wire Brass P. Andrews Variations For Brass Band, R. Vaughan Williams
2004 Old Hall Brass N. Parkinson Kaleidoscope, Philip Sparke
2003 Bollington P. Christian Celestial Prospect, W. Heaton
2002 Moston & Beswick R. Taylor Symphony for Brass, V. Ewald
2001 Dobcross Youth T. Griffiths The Moor of Venice, W. Alwyn
2000 Oldham Brass '97 A. White Sword, Jewel and Mirror, P. Harper
1999 United Norwest Co-op Milnrow I. Brownbill Symphonic Suite for Brass, L. Locas
1998 Ashton-under-Lyne M. Evans Culloden Moor, G. Wood
1997 Haydock Ogden Travel J. Maines A New Buckenham Suite, A. Jackman
1996 Berisfords Cardway Plc H. Megarell Hollywood, G. Richards
1995 United Co-op Crewe R. Sparkes Rococo Variations, A. Street
1995 United Co-op Crewe R. Sparkes Rococo Variations, Allan Street
1994 Gorton Silver D. Evans A Salford Sinfonietta, Darrol Barry
1993 Boarshurt D. Morris Oceans, Goff Richards
1992 Longridge G. Clough Dimensions, Peter Graham
1991 Bedford Leigh B. Taylor Masque, Frederic Devreese
1990 The Trafford Band J. Norris Forth Suite, Bruce Fraser
1989 Lancashire Constabulary S. Blair Orian, Granville Bantock
1988 Marple Band G. E. Cutt Royal Parks, Lloyd
1988 Norwest Co-op Wardle A. Briggs Folk Song Heritage, M. Kenyon
1983 Fodens O.T.S. H. Snell Images, John McCabe
1983 Darwen G. Clough Caprice Brass Fair, Geoffrey Winter
1982 Warburton's Bakery J. Durrant Henry V, Vaughan Williams
1981 Stalbridge (Tetley-Walker) E. Woodhouse Concertino, Philip Lane
1980 Roberts Bakery C. Cranson Concert Overture For Brass Bands, Vilem Tausky
1979 Leyland Vehicles R. Evans Introduction, Elegy & Caprice, Morley Calvert
1978 Lancashire Constabulary H. Bentham The Three Musketeers, George Hespe
1977 Lancashire Constabulary W. Hill Morning Rhapsody, Eric Ball
1976 East Lancs. Paper Group M. Brownbill Tournament For Brass, Eric Ball
1975 Poynton A. Lawton Rhapsody in Brass, Dean Goffin
1972 Skelmersdale W. Lyon Sinfonietta For Brass Band, Joseph Horovitz
1971 Skelmersdale W. Lyon Suite Gothique, L. Boellman, Eric Ball
1970 Hoggarth's J. A. Hughes First Suite In Eb (Revised Edition), Gustav Holst
1965 Mirrlees Works W. Ashcroft Old English SUite, Three Castles, W. Rimmer
1964 Poynton Brass C. Holt Suite, The Great City, Dr. William Lovelock
1962 Carlisle St. Stephens C. Lowes Peter Schmoll,Weber, Drake Rimmer


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


Chinnor Silver

May 11 • We are looking for PERCUSSIONISTS to join us as we head into an exciting period for the band.Good and varied diary ahead.. We rehearse on Wednesdays in our own bandroom (so none of that tedious setting up and down)


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.


Mark Wilkinson


Cornet Soloist, Teacher, Adjudicator, Conductor


               

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