CONTEST RESULTS

Brass in Concert

Date: 18 Nov 2023
Venue: Glasshouse International Centre for Music (formerly Sage), Gateshead
Music Adjudicator(s): Dr Howard Evans, Margaret Antrobus
Entertainment Adjudicator(s): David Thornton, Simone Rebello, Jo Towler
Soloist Adjudicator(s): Professor Roger Webster

Pos Band Conductor Draw Music Ent Total
1 Foden's Michael Fowles 6 186 Flag
2 Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag Reid Gilje 4 184 Flag
3 Flowers Paul Holland 10 178 Flag
4 Brighouse & Rastrick Professor Garry E Cutt 2 173 Flag
5 Fountain City Brass Band Joseph Parisi 11 158 Flag
6 Tredegar Ian Porthouse 8 150 Flag
7 Grimethorpe Colliery Steve Phillips 1 131 Flag
8 Aldbourne Glyn Williams 9 125 Flag
9 Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Allan Withington 7 122 Flag
10 Friary Brass Band Nigel Taken 3 121 Flag
11 Hammonds Morgan Griffiths 5 117 Flag

Banks Group Trophy (quality of performance): Foden's
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Trophy (best entertainment and presentation): Foden's

Best programme content: Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag

Audience entertainment trophy: Foden's

Geoffrey Whitham Trophy (best soloist): Emily Evans (horn, Flowers) playing Curiouser and Curiouser (Lucy Pankhurst)

Cyril Beere Memorial Trophy (best new composition or arrangement): Flowers (playing Time for Tea (Lucy Pankhurst)

Harry Mortimer Trophy (best principal cornet): Dewi Griffiths (Tredegar)
Gateshead MBC Trophy (best soprano cornet): Richard Poole (Foden's)
Thomas Bulmer Memorial Trophy (best euphonium): Gary Curtin (Foden's)
Don Lusher Trophy (best trombone): Ryan Richards (Tredegar)
The Bennett Family Trophy (best flugel): Gyda Matland (Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag)
Gordon Higginbottom Trophy (best horn): Hilde Øian (Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag)
North of England Regional Committee Trophy (best baritone): Erland Øian (Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag)
John Fletcher Trophy (best basses): Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag
Louis and Colin Johnson Memorial Trophy (best percussion): Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag

Dougie Grieve Trophy (youngest player): Jake Bartlett, age 16 (Aldbourne)

Grimethorpe Colliery penalised 5 points for exceeding time limit