CONTEST RESULTS

North American Championship (1st section)

Date: 21 & 22 Apr 2023
Venue: Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Set piece Adjudicator(s): Dr John Falskow, J Shaw, Jessica Sneeringer
Own choice Adjudicator(s): Dr John Falskow, Dr T André Feagin, Jessica Sneeringer
Test piece: The Year of the Dragon (Philip Sparke)

Pos Band Conductor Test Piece Own Choice Total
Draw Points Pos Draw Points Pos points
1 Princeton Brass Band Aaron Vanderweele 8 277.75 1 7 281.00 1 93.02
Variations on an Enigma (Philip Sparke)
2 Colorado Brass Dr Brett Keating 1 271.25 4 3 277.00 4 91.18
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Derek Bourgeois)
3 Dublin Silver Band Dr Timothy Jameson 5 277.75 1 8 258.75 9 90.05
Essay for Brass Band (Edward Gregson)
4 Arkansas Musicworks Brass Band Lt Brandon R Hults 7 271.00 5 4 266.50 5 89.73
Coventry Variations (Bramwell Tovey)
5 Triangle Brass Band Tony Granados 6 271.50 3 5 262.00 7 89.23
Chivalry (Martin Ellerby)
6 Illinois Brass Band Stephen Squires 4 249.00 9 1 279.00 2 87.00
Music of the Spheres (Philip Sparke)
7 Oakland University Brass Band Dr Kenneth Kroesche 2 250.00 7 6 277.25 3 86.97
Heroes (Bruce Broughton)
8 Diamond Brass Band Dr Sarah Labovitz 9 251.75 6 9 262.50 6 85.35
Spectrum (Gilbert Vinter)
9 Madison Brass Band Andy Malovance 3 249.75 8 2 261.00 8 84.75
From San Marco Quarter (Joop van Dijk)

The overall score is weighted as 60% of Set Piece score plus 40% of Own Choice score and then scaled as a percentage out of 300

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

Detailed scores breakdown grid available here