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Regional Championships: West of England

Championship Section Summary

Year Winners Conductor Test piece
2026 Flowers Paul Holland Elgar Variations, Martin Ellerby
2025 Aldbourne Glyn Williams Diversions for Brass Band, Derek Bourgeois
2024 Flowers Paul Holland Variations on an Enigma, Philip Sparke
2023 Camborne Ian Porthouse Red Priest, Philip Wilby
2022 Aldbourne Glyn Williams Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)
2020 Camborne Town Ian Porthouse A Tale as Yet Untold (Philip Sparke)
2019 Flowers Paul Holland Seascapes, Ray Steadman-Allen
2018 Flowers David Childs Odyssey, Kevin Norburry
2017 Woodfalls Dr Robert Childs Pageantry, Herbert Howells
2016 Flowers Paul Holland Cambridge Variations, Philip Sparke
2015 Flowers Paul Holland The Torchbearer, Peter Graham
2014 Flowers Paul Holland St Magnus, Kenneth Downie
2013 Flowers Paul Holland Harmony Music, Philip Sparke
2012 Flowers Paul Holland The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea, Derek Bourgeois
2011 Woodfalls Dr Nicholas Childs Paganini Variations, Philip Wilby
2010 Flowers Paul Holland English Heritage, George Lloyd
2009 Camborne Town G. Cutt Salute to Youth, Gilbert Vinter
2008 Mount Charles A. Duncan Festival Music, Eric Ball
2007 PolySteel P. Harper Isaiah 40, Robert Redhead
2006 Mount Charles Dr. Nicholas Childs Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Peter Graham
2005 Bournemouth Concert Brass Nigel Taken Rienzi, Richard Wagner arr. Howard Lorriman
2004 JAG Mount Charles Dr. Nicholas Childs Tristan Encounters, Martin Ellerby
2003 Camborne Town Frank Renton Prague, Judith Bingham
2002 SWT Woodfalls G Cutt Whitsun Wakes, Michael Ball
2001 Camborne Town F. Renton Jazz, Philip Wilby
2000 Flowers R. Evans Variations on an Enigma, Philip Sparke
1999 Bodmin N. Childs Blitz, Derek Bourgeois
1998 SWT Woodfalls M. White Montage, Peter Graham
1997 Flowers G. Cutt A Lowry Sketchbook, Philip Wilby
1996 Sun Life R. Evans Sounds, John Golland
1995 Sun Life R. Newsome Un Vie de Matelot, Robert Farnon
1994 Flowers Gary Cutt Partita, Philip Sparke
1993 Sun Life R. Newsome Of Men and Mountains, Edward Gregson
1992 Sun Life R. Newsome Frontier, Michael Ball
1991 Flowers D. Broadbent Journey Into Freedom, Eric Ball
1990 Camborne - The Beacons, Ray Stadman-Allen
1989 Sun Life Roy Newsome Prisms, Peter Graham
1963 Camborne Town F. J. Roberts Rienzi, Wagner, Haydn Johns


Harlow Brass Band - SPRING CONCERT - AN ANIMATION SENSATION

Saturday 16 May • St Andrew's Methodist Church. The Stow. Harlow. CM20 3AF


Sherborne Town Band - Free-Music in the park

Sunday 17 May • Dorchester- Park Bandstand DT1 1RG


Newstead Brass - Mansfield MVC - Brass and Voices

Sunday 24 May • Forest Town Arena. Clipstone Road West,. Mansfield NG19 0EE


Contest: Whit Friday March Contests

Friday 29 May • Saddleworth & Tameside OL3


The Hepworth Band - Brassband Burgermusik Luzern

Saturday 30 May • Dewsbury Minster, Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 8DD


Hathern Band

May 10 • Due to University placement we require a Bb Bass player- we are a First Section band based at our own band room in the village of Hathern LE12 5LJ Leicestershire (between M1 Jcts 23 & 24) and close to Lougborough and Nottingham Universities


Newstead Brass

May 10 • Newstead Brass are on the lookout for a talented 2nd BARITONE player to join our ambitious and hardworking Nottinghamshire-based Championship Section band.. A rare chance to become part of an ambitious brass band striving for even greater success together.


Ibstock Brick Brass

May 9 • Ibstock Brick Brass are looking for a Solo Cornet, 3rd Cornet, 2nd Horn, Bass Trombone and B Flat Tuba as we move into the second section from 2027. We are a friendly, ambitions and progressive band that rehearse at our own bandroom in Coalville.


Stephen Tighe

ARCM, LDBBA, (Dip)PFS.
Adjudicator / Music Director / Arranger


               

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