CONTEST RESULTS

US Open (Division I)

Date: 23 Nov 2024
Venue: Performing Arts Center, Clarkston, Michigan
Adjudicator(s): Tom Davoren, Jamie Hood, Jessica Sneeringer

Pos Band Conductor Draw Points
1 Five Lakes Silver Band Christopher Ward 358
2 Dublin Silver Band Dr Timothy Jameson 309
3 Chicago Brass Band Mark A Taylor 305

Niermeyer Award (most entertaining band): ?
Best featured brass soloist: Amy Schumacher Bliss (euphonium, Dublin Silver Band)
Best new composition or arrangement: Bridge Over Troubled Water (played by Dublin Silver Band)
Best performance of a march: Motor City Academy (division II), playing Torchbearers (Eric Ball)

Best cornet section: Five Lakes Silver Band
Best flugel and tenor horn section: Chicago Brass Band
Best trombone section: Five Lakes Silver Band
Best euphonium and baritone section: Dublin Silver Band
Best bass section: Five Lakes Silver Band
Best percussion section: Chicago Brass Band

Outstanding individual performer (division I): David Koch (cornet, Five Lakes Silver Band)
Outstanding individual performer (division II): Ed King (trombone, Old Crown Brass Band)

Each of the adjudicators awarded points out of 100 (music and performance) and 25 (entertainment)