The Association of Brass Band Adjudicators (AoBBA) recently held its hybrid 2026 Annual General Meeting where members were able to address the formal and informal agenda issues and topics of discussion.

Professional development

A minute's silence was observed before the start of the day to mark the memory of members who passed away during the past year, whilst those present were also able take part in a session of continued professional development on forms of assessment for exams and competitions, led by Dr. Andrew McBirnie, Chief Examiner for London College of Music.

Newstead Brass also delivered a test-piece workshop led by Dr. Howard Evans, Christopher Holding and Stan Lippeatt to enable members to examine and discuss the Area Championship set-works for the Second, Third and Fourth Sections.

Committee

The Executive Committee were re-appointed as follows:
Chairperson: Brett Baker
Secretary: Nicholas Garman
Treasurer: Chris King
Vice Chairperson & Development Adjudicator Programme Leader: Martin Heartfield
Public Relations Officer: Stephanie Binns, Helen Douthwaite-Teasdale (joint)

Alan Duguid, Stan Lippeatt, Jack Capstaff, Andrea Price were elected as committee members.

AoBBA members can be viewed at: https://www.aobba.com/our-adjudicators/