CONTEST RESULTS

Constest Birmingham Open

Date: 12 Apr 2025
Venue: Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Adjudicator(s): Alan Morrison, Ryan Watkins

Pos Band Conductor Draw
1 Parc & Dare Dewi Griffiths 10 Flag
Blitz (Derek Bourgeois)
2 Tewit Silver Martin Hall 5 Flag
The Raid (Oliver Waespi)
3 Audley Brass Tom Hancock 12 Flag
Albinus Variations (Etienne Crausaz)
4 Jackfield Simon Platford 14 Flag
Chivalry (Martin Ellerby)
5 Sovereign Brass David Maplestone 7 Flag
Montage (Peter Graham)
6 Thoresby Colliery Luke Pallister 4 Flag
Tallis Variations (Philip Sparke)
7 Ratby Co-operative 'Mid' Nicholas Garman 16 Flag
Friendly Takeover (Oliver Waespi)
8 Wakefield Metropolitan Duncan Beckley 18 Flag
Arkansas (Jacob de Haan)
9 City of Birmingham Brass Saphran Ali 6 Flag
Oceans (Goff Richards)
10 Staffordshire Lee Woodward 15 Flag
In Memoriam R.K. (Elgar Howarth)
11 ClockFace Miners Heritage Will Haw 11 Flag
Images for Brass (Stephen Bulla)
12 Nailsworth Silver Anri Adachi 1 Flag
Oceans (Goff Richards)
13 Syston Alex Bland 17 Flag
The Mermaid of Zennor (Philip Harper)
14 City of Wrexham Scott Lloyd 2 Flag
The Plantagenets (Edward Gregson)
15 Harborough Ben Smith 8 Flag
The Day of the Lord (Steven Ponsford)
16 Amington Chris Barker 9 Flag
Variations on Laudate Dominum (Edward Gregson)
17 Croft Silver Henry Dunger 13 Flag
I, Daedalus (Andrea Price)
18 Cleobury Mortimer Concert Brass Chris Cobon 3 Flag
Chorale and Toccata (Stephen Bulla)

Best championship section band: Tewit Silver
Best 1st section band: Parc & Dare
Best 2nd section band: Ratby Co-operative 'Mid'
Best 3rd section band: Wakefield Metropolitan
Best 4th section band: Syston

Most promising lower section band: Ratby Co-operative 'Mid'
Highest supported band: Sovereign Brass

Best instrumentalist: Andrea Lewis (flugel horn, Parc & Dare)
Mick Foley Memoriam Award (best cornet): Luke Barker (City of Birmingham Brass)
Best euphonium: Ruth Fuller (Audley Brass)
Best back row cornets: Tewit Silver
Best bass section: Parc & Dare