WINNING BANDS IN THE MIDLANDS AREA (CH SECTION)

Year Winning band Conductor Draw Points
2025 The GUS Band Dr David Thornton 3
Diversions for Brass Band (Derek Bourgeois)
2024 Desford Colliery (Leics Miners Trust Fund) Ian Porthouse 10
Variations on an Enigma (Philip Sparke)
2023 The GUS Band Dr David Thornton 9
Red Priest (Philip Wilby)
2022 Desford Colliery (Leics Miners Trust Fund) Michael Fowles 10
Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)
2020 The GUS Band Chris Jeans 1
A Tale as Yet Untold (Philip Sparke)
2019 Desford Colliery (Leics Miners Trust Fund) Michael Fowles 5
Seascapes (Ray Steadman-Allen)
2018 Virtuosi GUS Adam Cooke 2
Odyssey (Kevin Norbury)
2017 Virtuosi GUS Adam Cooke 4
Pageantry (Herbert Howells)
2016 Virtuosi GUS Adam Cooke 12
Cambridge Variations (Philip Sparke)
2015 Virtuosi GUS Adam Cooke 11
The Torchbearer - Symphonic Variations on a theme by Eric Ball (Peter Graham)
2014 Virtuosi GUS Adam Cooke 6
St Magnus (Kenneth Downie)
2013 Jaguar Land Rover Dave Lea 7
Harmony Music (Philip Sparke)
2012 Desford Colliery Russell Gray 8
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Derek Bourgeois)
2011 Virtuosi GUS John Berryman 9
Paganini Variations (Philip Wilby)
2010 Virtuosi GUS John Berryman 3
English Heritage (George Lloyd)
2009 Desford Colliery Russell Gray 11
Salute to Youth (Gilbert Vinter)
2008 Desford Colliery Nigel Seaman 12 194
Festival Music (Eric Ball)
2007 Staffordshire David Maplestone 8 194
Isaiah 40 (Robert Redhead)
2006 Newstead Welfare Duncan Beckley 9 193
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Peter Graham)
2005 Wooley Pritchard Sovereign Brass Trevor Jones 9 192
Rienzi Overture (Richard Wagner arr Howard Lorriman)
2004 Travelsphere Holidays David Stowell 1 197
Tristan Encounters (Martin Ellerby)
2003 Desford Colliery Major Peter Parkes 3 192
Prague (Judith Bingham)
2002 Desford Colliery Major Peter Parkes 7 196
Whitsun Wakes (Michael Ball)
2001 Travelsphere Holidays Frank Renton 2 98
Jazz (Philip Wilby)
2000 Desford Colliery Major Peter Parkes 10 198
Variations on an Enigma (Philip Sparke)
1999 NSK-RHP Ransome Brian Grant 6 195
Blitz (Derek Bourgeois)
1998 Desford Colliery Frank Renton 10 193
Montage (Peter Graham)
1997 NSK-RHP Ransome Brian Grant 6 192
A Lowry Sketchbook (Philip Wilby)
1996 Rigid Containers Group John Berryman 8 194
Sounds (John Golland)
1995 Desford Colliery Major Peter Parkes 4 193
Un Vie de Matelot (Robert Farnon)
1994 William Davis Construction Group Dr Keith Wilkinson 9 194
Partita (Philip Sparke)