CONTEST RESULTS

North American Championship (1st section)

Date: 11 Mar 2017
Venue: Embassy Theater, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Adjudicator(s): Peter Graham, Stephen Bulla, Jamie Hood
Test piece: Voyage to Worlds Unknown (Peter Graham)

Pos Band Conductor Set Piece Own Choice Total
Draw Points Pos Draw Points Pos points
1 Weston Silver Band Larry Shields 8 295.0 1 295.0 1 295.0 Flag
Endeavour (Australia 1788 - 1988) (Philip Sparke)
2 Pikes Peak Brass Band Debbie Baker 5 284.0 3 291.0 2 286.8 Flag
Blackout (Thomas Doss)
3 University of Georgia British Brass Band Philip Smith 2 286.0 2 285.0 3 285.6 Flag
4 Dublin Silver Band Dr Timothy Jameson 1 283.0 4 284.0 4 283.4 Flag
Pageantry (Herbert Howells)
5 Central Ohio Brass Band Jessica Sneeringer 9 279.0 5 277.0 6 278.2 Flag
The Land of the Long, White Cloud (Philip Sparke)
6 Oakland University Brass Band Dr Kenneth Kroesche 10 276.0 6 280.0 5 277.6 Flag
Variations on a Theme of Michael Tippett (multiple composers)
7 Illinois Brass Band Stephen Squires 4 274.0 7 269.0 8 272.0 Flag
Fragile Oasis (Peter Meechan)
8 Five Lakes Silver Band Neil Barlow 7 267.0 10 275.0 7 270.2 Flag
St Magnus (Kenneth Downie)
9 Madison Brass Band Craig Mason 3 270.0 8 268.0 9 269.2 Flag
Equilibrium (Paul Lovatt-Cooper)
9 Motor City Brass Band Craig Strain 6 270.0 8 268.0 9 269.2 Flag
A London Overture (Philip Sparke)

Programme of between 23 and 35 minutes, including set test piece

The overall score is weighted as 60% of Set Piece score plus 40% of Own Choice score

1st tiebreaker - band with the highest Set Piece score wins
2nd tiebreaker - band rated higher on the Set Piece by 2 of the 3 adjudicators wins

University of Georgia played Repton (Parry), Victory for Me (Heaton), Slavonic Dance Op 46, No 8 (Dvorak arr Steadman Allen) and The Contestor (Powell)