CONTEST RESULTS

Besson Swiss Open

Date: 26 Sep 2015
Venue: Kultur und Kongresszentrum KKL (Salle Blanche), Luzern
Adjudicator(s): David Childs, Pascal Eicher, Paul Holland, Howard Lorriman, Patrick Ottiger
Test piece: Of Distant Memories (Music in an Olden Style) (Edward Gregson)

Pos Band Conductor Test Piece Entertainment Total
Draw Points Pos Draw Points Pos points
1 Brass Band Treize Étoiles James Gourlay 10 171 1 4 179 1 350
Hunnenschlacht (The Battle of the Huns) (Franz Liszt arr Bertrand Moren)
2 Brass Band Fribourg A Frédéric Théodoloz 1 169 3 10 178 2 347
Piano Concerto No 3 (Finale) (Sergei Rachmaninov arr Philip Harper)
3 Valaisia Brass Band Arsène Duc 4 170 2 6 173 3 343
The Planets Suite (Uranus & Jupiter) (Gustav Holst arr Stephen Roberts)
4 Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan François Roh 8 169 3 1 171 4 340
Scythian Suite (Sergei Prokofiev arr Julien Roh)
5 Brass Band Luzerner Hinterland Hervé Grélat 9 169 3 5 164 5 333
Firebird (excerpts) (Igor Stravinsky arr Ray Farr)
6 Brass Band Berner Oberland Corsin Tuor 2 162 7 9 163 6 325
Les Vêpres Siciliennes (Guiseppe Verdi arr Howard Lorriman)
7 Wallberg Band Professor Garry E Cutt 5 164 6 7 160 8 324
Rienzi Overture (Richard Wagner arr Howard Lorriman)
8 Oberaargauer Brass Band A Russell Gray 6 160 8 2 162 7 322
The Love for Three Oranges (Sergei Prokofiev arr Margaret Antrobus)
9 Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia Stéphane Duboux 7 157 10 3 159 9 316
Le Carnaval Romain (Hector Berlioz arr Howard Lorriman)
10 Liberty Brass Band Ostschweiz Andreas Koller 3 159 9 8 154 10 313
Der Freischütz Overture (Carl Maria von Weber arr ? ?)

Best performance of contest march: Brass Band Fribourg (playing Ravenswood (Rimmer))
Best performance of orchestral transcription: Brass Band Treize Etoiles (playing Hunnenschlacht (Liszt arr Moren))

For the entertainment programme, bands were required to play an ochestral transcription, plus a march composed by a composer from a prescribed list.

The adjudicators were in separate boxes and each awarded placings for each band for both the set test piece and the orchestral transcription.  1st place is then converted to 60 points, 2nd place 59 points, and so on.  The highest and lowest marks awarded to each band were discarded and hence a maximum of 360 points (2 x 180) were available.  Points scored for the own choice march were not included in the overall mark and were for the purpose of deciding the special march prize only.