CONTEST RESULTS

Besson Swiss Open

Date: 23 Sep 2023
Venue: Concert Hall, Culture and Congress Centre, Lucerne
Adjudicator(s): Professor Nicholas J Childs, Pascal Eicher, Peter Graham, Blaise Héritier, Howard Lorriman
Test piece: Angels and Demons (Peter Graham)

Pos Band Conductor Test Piece Own Choice Total
Draw Points Pos Draw Points Pos points
1 Brass Band Treize Étoiles Frédéric Théodoloz 9 178 1 2 176 1 354 Flag
English Heritage (George Lloyd)
2 Brass Band Fribourg A Florent Didier 6 175 2 4 162 8 337 Flag
Spectrum (Gilbert Vinter)
3 Brass Band Berner Oberland Véronique Gyger-Pitteloud 8 171 3 1 166 5 337 Flag
Blitz (Derek Bourgeois)
4 Brass Band Bürgermusik Luzern Michael Bach 2 163 7 8 174 2 337 Flag
The Year of the Dragon (Philip Sparke)
5 Wallberg Band Ivan Meylemans 7 168 5 5 167 4 335 Flag
Variations on an Enigma (Philip Sparke)
6 Liberty Brass Band Ostschweiz Stefan Roth 3 164 6 9 170 3 334 Flag
Pageantry (Herbert Howells)
7 Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan François Roh 10 170 4 3 163 7 333 Flag
Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)
8 Oberaargauer Brass Band A Patrick Ottiger 5 152 10 10 164 6 316 Flag
Diversions on a Bass Theme (George Lloyd)
9 Paris Brass Band Laurent Douvre 4 161 8 6 154 9 315 Flag
Journey Into Freedom (Eric Ball)
10 Brass Band Luzerner Hinterland Sandro Blank 1 156 9 7 152 10 308 Flag
An Epic Symphony (Percy Fletcher)

Best flugel horn in set piece: Anthony Rausis (Brass Band Treize Etoiles)

Best performance of own-choice test: Brass Band Treize Etoiles (playing English Heritage)

For their own-choice piece, bands were required to play an original work from a prescribed list.

Links to videos of set test and own-choice performances as follows:

Brass Band Treize Etoiles

Brass Band Fribourg A

Brass Band Berner Oberland

Brass Band Bürgermusik Luzern

Wallberg Band

Liberty Brass Band Ostschweiz

Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan

Oberaargauer Brass Band A

Paris Brass Band

Brass Band Luzerner Hinterland


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.