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Results: 2010 Yeovil Championships

Tredegar make it a Welsh win in Yeovil taking the title for the sixth time.

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Tredegar conducted by Ian Porthouse has won the Yeovil Entertainment title for a sixth time.

Top Drawer

With a performance from the early number 2 draw that was described by adjudicator Dennis Wilby as 'top drawer', they took the £2,000 first prize by a single point margin from fellow Welsh rival's BTM, with Londoner's Aveley & Newham showing an encouraging return to form by coming third.

Programme

Tredegar's winning programme started with a new composition by their composer in residence Matt Hall entitled, 'Activate', before they featured the first of their two soloists with trombonist Steven Sykes in 'I Love's you Porgy'.

Philip Wilby's 'Swinging Matilda' followed before flugel horn player Zoe Hancock played 'Ellin Vannin'. The band finished their programme with 'America' and Howard Snell's arrangement of 'Folk Festival.'

Dennis Wilby was full of praise for the winners, describing their dynamic contrasts as 'stunning' in his written remarks, which he summed up with '...a fine programme of high quality'4BR

High quality

Adjudicator Dennis Wilby was full of praise for the winners, describing their dynamic contrasts 'stunning' in his written remarks which he summed up with '...a fine programme of high quality'.

Tredegar's trombone section were presented with the 'Best Section of the Contest' Award, but it was BTM's star trombonist Jonathan Pippen who took the coveted 'Best Instrumentalist Award'

The sought after 'Best Soprano' prize was won by Mark Pye of Woodfalls.

Result:

1. Tredegar (Ian Porthouse) — 195
2. BTM (Tom Davoren) — 194
3. Aveley & Newham (Nigel Taken) — 191
4. Woodfalls (Gareth Pritchard) — 190
5. Tongwynlais (Jeremy Wise) — 188
6. Camborne (Kevin MacKenzie) — 187
7. Jaguar (Coventry) (Dave Lea) — 182
8. Mount Charles (Richard Evans) — 180
9. St Dennis (Darren Hawken) — 179
10. Poole Borough (Phil Randell) — 177
11. Milton Keynes (Paul Fensom) — 175
12. Kidlington (Catherine Underwood) — 173

Adjudicator: Dennis Wilby

Best soloist: Jonathan Pippen, BTM
Best Soprano: Mark Pye, Woodfalls
Best Section: Tredegar trombone section

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