WINNING BANDS IN THE NORTH WEST AREA (1ST SECTION)

Year Winning band Conductor Draw Points
2024 Wardle Anderson Brass Brad McCulloch 9
High Peak (Eric Ball)
2023 Wardle Anderson Brass Brad McCulloch 7
A Day in the Life of a Knight (Phil Lawrence)
2022 Ashton-under-Lyne Martyn Evans 1
Spectrum (Gilbert Vinter)
2020 Roberts Bakery Paul Lovatt-Cooper 15
Legacy (Tom Davoren)
2019 Rainford Gareth Brindle 9
Symphony of Marches (Gilbert Vinter)
2018 Oldham Band (Lees) John Collins 13
Brass Metamorphosis (James Curnow)
2017 Pemberton Old Wigan DW Ben Dixon 9
The Land of the Long, White Cloud (Philip Sparke)
2016 Vernon Building Society Poynton Neil Samuel 5
Essay for Brass Band (Edward Gregson)
2015 Roberts Bakery Simon Stonehouse 10
A London Overture (Philip Sparke)
2014 Ashton-under-Lyne (Total Rope Solutions) Philip Chalk 11
Cry of the Mountain (Howard Lorriman)
2013 Freckleton Paul Dalton 1
Brass Triumphant (Gareth Wood)
2012 Rainford Neil Samuel 3
Mountain Views (Bertrand Moren)
2011 Roberts Bakery Colin Cranson 5
Le Carnaval Romain (Hector Berlioz arr Frank Wright)
2010 Freckleton Paul Dalton 1
A Moorside Suite (Gustav Holst)
2009 Wardle Anderson Brass Sean Conway 5
Pentacle (Graham Cole)
2008 Roberts Bakery Colin Cranson 10 192
James Cook, Circumnavigator (Gilbert Vinter)
2007 Timperley David Evans 7 190
Sinfonietta - The Wayfarer (Eric Ball)
2006 Wire Brass Paul Andrews 7 191
Voyage of Discovery (Goff Richards)
2005 Freckleton Paul Dalton 11 192
Comedy Overture (John Ireland)
2004 Pemberton Old Wigan (JJB) Mark Peacock 3 191
Coventry Variations (Bramwell Tovey)
2003 United Co-op (Crewe) Jeff Sparkes 7 190
Passacaglia on a Theme of Brahms, Op 87 (Arthur Butterworth)
2002 Pemberton Old Wigan Alan Lawton 1 190
Royal Parks (George Lloyd)
2001 Mossley Simon Stonehouse 12 189
The Undaunted (Eric Ball)
2000 Longridge Mike Cotter 4 190
Music for the Common Man (Kenneth Downie)
1999 Ashton-under-Lyne Martyn Evans 8 190
Kenilworth (Sir Arthur Bliss)
1998 Congleton Brass David Evans 10 191
Purcell Variations (Kenneth Downie)
1997 Freckleton Paul Dalton 2 189
Ballet for Band (Joseph Horovitz)
1996 British Aerospace (Chadderton) Simon Wood 10 192
Spectrum (Gilbert Vinter)
1995 United Norwest Co-operatives (Rochdale) Roy Curran 5 192
The Land of the Long, White Cloud (Philip Sparke)
1994 Blackburn & Darwen Paul Dalton 8 187
Sinfonia for Brass: Maoriana, Op 85 (Arthur Butterworth)
1993 United Norwest Co-op Wardle Anthony Briggs 11 191
The Forest of Dean (Variations on a Theme of Herbert Howells) (Derek Bourgeois)
1992 British Telecom John Maines 6 188
Celebration (Eric Ball)