CONTEST RESULTS

North American Championship (2nd section)

Date: 5 & 6 Apr 2024
Venue: Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Adjudicator(s): Major Paul Norley, Dr John Falskow, Dr Jack Stamp
Test piece: Albinus Variations (Etienne Crausaz)

Pos Band Conductor Set Piece Own Choice Total
Draw Points Pos Draw Points Pos points
1 Massanutten Brass Band Professor Kevin Stees 10 280.75 2 12 284.75 1 94.12
St James's - A New Beginning (Philip Harper)
2 Cincinnati Brass Band Joshua Thompson 14 281.75 1 13 278.50 2 93.48
The Patriots (Jan de Haan)
3 Brass Band of Huntsville Dr Casey Thomas 6 274.00 3 11 275.25 5 91.50
Saint-Saëns Variations (Philip Sparke)
4 Motor City Brass Band Gordon Ward 3 270.25 6 5 272.50 6 90.38
The Land of the Long, White Cloud (Philip Sparke)
5 St Louis Brass Band Dr John Bell 5 272.25 4 2 263.25 9 89.55
The Kingdom of Dragons (Philip Harper)
6 Central Ohio Brass Band Matthew Henry 7 271.00 5 6 263.75 7 89.37
A London Overture (Philip Sparke)
7 Milwaukee Festival Brass Mark A Taylor 9 262.00 9 14 275.50 4 89.13
Vivat! (Tom Davoren)
8 Tampa Brass Band Tina Di Meglio 2 266.00 7 8 261.75 10 88.10
Spinnaker (Brendan Sweeney)
9 Natural State Brass Band Nevada Mills 13 255.25 11 9 277.25 3 88.02
Lions of Legends (Thierry Deleruyelle)
10 Austin Brass Band John Caputo 11 263.00 8 1 259.00 12 87.13
Brass Triumphant (Gareth Wood)
11 River Brass Eric Obermeyer 1 253.00 12 10 263.50 8 85.73
The Aeronauts (Goff Richards)
12 Old Crown Brass Band T J Faur 8 258.50 10 4 251.75 13 85.27
Music for a Festival (Philip Sparke)
13 Dublin Metro Brass Dr Keith Wilkinson 4 251.00 13 3 261.50 11 85.07
Lakeland Variations (Philip Sparke)
14 Jericho Brass Frank Hale 12 241.25 14 7 247.25 14 81.22
Cathedrals (Nick Simmons-Smith)

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