scottish brass band championships 2022 results

An opening of poise from Unison Kinneil, Raymond Tennant ensuring a well-measured account. Scottish Championship (Fourth Section) - 13th Mar 2022 - Brass Band Results Brass Band Results Bands List BandsRegionsSections Band MapNew Map (Experimental)Search Map Compare BandsWinning Bands Contests List ContestsCalendarYearsList VenuesVenue Map Add Results People List People Compare ConductorsWinning ConductorsMost Bands Conducted Pieces Members of Fishburn Band get themselves very cosy with each other on the sprawling Perth Concert Hall stage. Soprano, flugelhorn, euphonium and trombone are among the soloists to shine. Welcome to the web site of the Yorkshire Brass Band Championships. Kirkintilloch hasn't enjoyed fluctuating form in recent years but the band is working hard to bring McCabe's score to the audience - and the adjudicators - in Perth this afternoon in its bid to secure its first Scottish Open title. The full line-up of participating bands is: But there is control, too, with the understated chorale-like passages delivered with impressive composure. The errors are sprinkled over a performance which, when its on song, has much to enjoy, including some classy solo sounds. 2020 saw Tredegar Town Band win the Championship Section of the Welsh "Regionals", therefore gaining an invitation to represent Wales at the 2022 European Championships in Birmingham. Concert Brass Poynton seek a few additional players including a Bass & Trombone & Front Row Cornet. James Doyle A Whitburn Band stalwart has been awarded by the Scottish Brass Band Association (SBBA) for his work with. It is followed by a trip to warmer climes, in Caribbean Holiday. Bandstand Boogie is measured as musical director, Stuart Black, guides his young charges through every twist and turn. With a number of well-directed accounts to consider, it was Renfrew Burgh that just missed out in third with confident rendition under Steven Craig. Boundary Street begins by taking us to a Brazilian carnival, full of energy and colour. Copyright 2022 Brass Band Results & Tim Sawyer, All Rights Reserved, Printed from https://brassbandresults.co.uk/, Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, UK. Charlie Boax and Emma. The band continues with A Whole New World, from Aladdin. Bravo. The maturity of the sounds defy the relative inexperience of the players around the stands with Campbeltown; well done, all. Oakland University Brass Band Other Results: The Niermeyer Award for Most Entertaining Band - Five Lakes Silver Band Best Individual Performer - Championship Section Robert Miller - Euph - Weston Silver Band The band brings down the curtain on its programme with Bon Jovi hit, Livin on a Prayer. February 28 Required solo trombone, soprano cornet, Bb Bass . Out of sympathy for the family and the band, the details were not announced at the event itself. With their euphonium also picking up a 'best' accolade they may have been disappointed they didn't get the Cheltenham nod, but on the day the consistent ensemble virtues of their rivals just held sway. This Bartok-inspired score is a treasure trove of diverse musical ideas. Its full of fun - but the discipline remains in the playing, which is to members credit. The Sixth Street Rag sees Alan Fernie pass the baton to music student, Laura Carter, who is clear and concise in her gesture in this jaunty number, which appears to find favour with the players around the stand. It was a wonderful moment for the band and their MD, Angela Miller. SG1 1LZ 18/19 March Kevin Williams (Regional Secretary): secretary@london.regional-contest.org.uk / 07813 154163 MIDLANDS https://mabbc.org/ New venue: The Core, Corby, Northants, NN17 1QG A very fine contesting band has regained its domestic supremacy in clear cut manner. March 1 Two iconic names in the banding world have announced a new partnership link. Whitburn is a very fine band and I'm looking forward to the next challenge with them.". 2023 Scottish Brass Band Association. March 1 The team at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) enjoyed meeting new and familiar faces at the recent Music & Drama Education Expo in London. A well-rehearsed, well-disciplined ensemble - thank you. Knight Ride is bursting with enthusiasm as the band opens its programme with great energy - no doubt inspired by its musical director, as Alan Fernie guides the young players with vigour. Comments from adjudicators Chris . Caribbean Holiday is deliciously rowdy to open, whoops and whistles aplenty. They will also represent the nation at the European Championships in Malmo in 2023. Growing Pains, the set work, has some lovely sounds around the stands, the engaging tunes finding favour with the young players of Broxburn and Livingston Future Brass. Tight snare drum rhythms pass to nicely understated intricate lines in cornets before the full band bursts into life. There's a pleasing lilt to the siciliana, with ensemble only occasionally losing its rigidity. It brings down the curtain on a characterful rendition of a fine piece, one which did much to engage the audience in Perth. Include your email address if you like. Johnstone (Mark Good): 18010. Adjudicators: Chris Shanks and Ryan Borthwick*, 1) GOLD Dalmellington Brass Academy | Cameron Paterson, SILVER Bathgate Youth Band | Stewart Brynes, SILVER Galashiels Youth Band | Stuart Black, 1) GOLD Coalburn Academy | Robbie Bremner. It's tight at the top in today's Scottish Open! The quality is undoubted and it has certainly settled into its stride - it's just a tad inconsistent. More results to follow soon. The tragic death of 20 year old Coalburn player Beth Mae Damer placed the fleeting emotions of celebration and disappointment for competitors at the Scottish Championship in Perth into stark context. Adjudicators Sheona Wade and Sandy Smith picked up on both. While things dont entirely gel, it settles into its stride as the piece progresses. Vice Chairman. Growing Pains, by Alan Fernie, is the set work in this section and is given a purposeful rendition by Kinneil Youth Band, which features among its ranks a plethora of young cornet players - great to see! The daunting prospect of tackling Gilbert Vinter's 'Spectrum' brought an informed musical response from the 10 well matched bands in the First Section. Tullis Russell (Ray Munday): 186*3. Newmains (Mike Marzella): 1846. While severely disrupted by the pandemic, those events have now been returning but it's as an own choice the piece is performed by Dalmellington today. Kirkintilloch is nicely measured to open in its choice, commissioned by Boosey and Hawkes in 1985. Scottish Championship (Championship Section) - 13th Mar 2022 - Brass Band Results Scottish Championship (Championship Section) Sun 13th Mar 2022 Reset Sort Hide Highlight Previous Event satiche Best Soprano Cornet - Scott Forrest, Whitburn Band Best Cornet - Chris Bradley, Whitburn Band Best Flugel - Lindsay Roxburgh, the cooperation band Neat and nimble work from basses passes to trombones, who pick up with aplomb, and a neat grooves develops in percussion to underpin brass. Bon-Accord B (Jennifer Cook): 1727. It's percussion aplenty in this piece, alluring grooves underpinning the melodies. Best Instrumentalist: Euphonium, Brass Sounds Inverclyde. 6) Broxburn and Livingston Future Brass | Jim Bone. The muted colours shine through particularly effectively. Dysart Colliery (Kenneth Letham): 1784. Very healthy numbers indeed in Irvine and Dreghorn Youth Band - and the sounds are equally impressive in Gonna Fly Now, which gets the band off to a super start. The composure is admirable, players turning the corners with ease and demonstrating sounds of undoubted quality. Bravo! It wasn't flawless from Whitburn, but it was wholly committed, reaching new heights in the final stages, with large spells of the brilliance audiences have long come to expect from the West Lothian outfit. They now head to Cheltenham (a round trip of well over 800 miles) for the third time since 2016 after claiming the title with a wonderfully uplifting rendition of 'The Aeronauts'. document.write(''); Intonation gremlins rise to the fore at times but they are fleeting in a mixed, though engaging, performance from Unison Kinneil Band. Unison Kinneil (Raymond Tennant): 1856. The songs get toes tapping in the audience as the band brings the curtain down on a programme in which it will have gained so much experience to stand it in good stead. The Band results are available here and the Drum Majors results here. The Scottish Championships - which gets under way at 9.30am on Saturday with the Third Section - is the regional qualifier for the 2022 National Brass Band Championships to be held at Cheltenham Racecourse on 17/18 September and the Royal Albert Hall on 15 October. The 'coop' head to the Europeans in Birmingham in need of a marked confidence boost after failing to qualify for the first time since 2013. Myriad musical colours rise to the fore before a cry of desperate proportions, delivered with ruthless efficiency by Gordon Kyle on soprano. Uddingston Strathclyde Novice Juvenile B Drumming: Edinburgh Academy 1. The thoughts of not just of Scottish banding but those from the wider brass band movement are with the family at this time. The Borders band continues with All Through the Night and the bands sound really rises to the fore, with the key lines rising to prominence throughout. It's measured to open, and the Aberdeen band settles into its stride, producing a pleasing full band sound that is exciting but never threatens to be overbearing. No doubting that as Stephan Hodel's accessible work was played with brio by all the competitors with a special mention to the excellent percussion teams. Some may have felt they deserved a place or two higher aided by the informed approaches of the MDs, but for the judges they were only pushing for potential top-six finishes. It's a well-tempered performance and an engaging reading; a fine choice and one which Bon-Accord Silver embraced on stage in Perth. Bon-Accord gets the Scottish Open back underway with Isaiah 40, music commissioned for the final of the 1996 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. Neat and nimble to open from Rainford Band, in a work first chosen as the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain test-piece in 1990. There are some fragilities which bring the sheen off but it's a performance of great commitment from Kingdom. A jazz-medley brings down the curtain on Campbeltown Youth Brass' performance, a melting pot of well-kent tunes weaving their way in and out of the texture. Although the Fourth Section contest was to be overshadowed by tragic news, there was still much to savour as Brass Sounds Inverclyde and Stranraer Brass claimed their places at Cheltenham. Well done, all. Confident and cultured on an interpretation of great certainty of thought, there were moments of individual unease and ensemble intonation heard throughout, meaning victory was clear cut rather than emphatic. Conductor Chris Binns ensures a flowing open before the disparate material which follows is threaded together nicely, lines of short, stabbing sounds punctuating the air in Perth Concert Hall. Flugelhorn player, Rona Campbell, takes centre stage in Under the Boardwalk, as a certain Helen Williams (Cory's flugel star, who is very familiar with this piece), watches on from the adjudicating table. David Roberts paces the music nicely, ensuring a gentle lilt, without forcing things. Don't forget you can always register and add missing results yourself! 10) Bon-Accord Silver | Stephen Malcolm - Isaiah 40 (Robert Redhead). Kirkintilloch Band (David Roberts): 179, **Invite to National Final and to represent Scotland at the 2023 European Championships *Invite to National Final, Best Cornet: Chris Bradley (Whitburn)Best Trombone: Mark Boyd (Bon-Accord)Best Soprano: Scott Forrest (Whitburn) Best Flugel: Lyndsay Roxburgh (the cooperation band) Best Horn: Andrew McMillan (Whitburn) Best Baritone: Carol Ednie (the cooperation band)Best Euphonium: Chris Shanks (Whitburn)Best Bass: Graham Fraser (Whitburn)Best Bass Section: WhitburnBest Percussion: Whitburn, Test piece: Spectrum (Gilbert Vinter)Adjudicators: Sandy Smith and Sheona Wade, 1. . Its soft, understated playing and chimes with the style of the song. 54 bands competed across five sections over the weekend, and we extend our thanks to Tom Allan (Regional Secretary) and all at SBBA for organising a great event. NASUWT Riverside (above), Kirkbymoorside, Tewit, Jayess Newbiggin and Flookburgh claim the Durham titles Saturday, 19 March 2022 For the fourth time in five years, the NASUWT Riverside Band lifted the Geneva Instruments Regional Championship trophy in triumph. Pirate Adventures, by Gareth Bowman, takes us on a swashbuckling adventure, with good attention to the light and shade in the music. 5) Campbeltown Brass Juniors | Katrina Barr. Previous Post. The last time the band qualified for the finals was in 1995, and given their youthful make-up you suspect not too many of them remembered that feeling. Concert march, Walkabout, provides an engaging opening to Dalmellington Brass Academy's programme; sprightly and crisp. The MD and players of Campbelltown though deserve to be flown to Cheltenham for the National Finals after yet another super victory. It gives way to a stately march, which is treated with poise. Greenbridge Lane. And here are the final results for the Preparatory and Development sections of the championships: What a day it has been at the Scottish Youth Brass Band Championships! We Will Rock You transforms the concert hall into a rock venue, stomping and clapping aplenty to bring the programme - and the section - to a close. Dunaskin Doon (Paul Drury): 1799. "It's very simple," he said, but "the devil was in the detail.". Stranraer Brass (Angela Miller): 178*3. 4) Newtongrange Silver Band | Anne Crookston - Pageantry (Herbert Howells). Saddleworth OL3 7EW, Friday 10 March Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). Abide With Me grows from a sensitive opening to a sound of impressive breadth, the lines sustained and phrases shaped with elegance. Neither opted for the full bore approach, although Dalkeith had a true 1960s colour palette vibrancy, and Bo'ness played with a bold sheen of gloss to their dynamic finish. Indeed, the solo trombone playing in the interlude is suitably melancholic, languid in its approach, and the refinement seems to inspire colleagues around the stand, the flugel sounds tender and endearing. The points were accompanied a trademark smile, but the acuteness of his observations ensured bands knew just what he and Sheona had been looking for in the box. Log In. Scottish Open Brass Band Championship Scottish Open Brass Band Championship Details Perth Concert Hall Sat 12 Mar 2022: 9:30amSun 13 Mar 2022: 9:30am Ticket price: 13.50; concessions 11.50 (inc 1.50 booking fee per ticket) per day An open day of workshops for existing players and for potential new recruits to try out a brass instrument has been read more, Ahead of its participation in the Scottish Championships, The Kirkintilloch Band will be including a performance of the First Section area read more, The Edinburgh University Brass Band is looking for a musical director following the decision by current MD Harry Marshall to step read more, The Coalburn brass band family celebrated a year of dedication, growth and excellent playing at its annual awards evening from read more, The Band of His Majestys Royal Marines Scotland will be performing in a concert that will be out of this world read more, An old clock which was presented to a former member of Dumfries Town Band on the occasion of his wedding over read more, Celebrated musical director Russell Gray will be leading a weekend course in conducting in Livingston at the end of April. 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