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Theodoloz to head to New Zealand

Frederic Theodoloz, the MD of Treize Etoile has been named as Chief Adjudicator for the 2025 New Zealand National Championships in Christchurch.

Brass Band Treize
  The MD will be the Chief Adjudicator at the event.

The Brass Band Association of New Zealand has announced that Frederic Theodoloz, the Musical Director of the current European, British Open and Swiss National Champion, Brass Band Treize-Etoiles, will be the Chief Adjudicator for the 2025 National Championships.

Oldest National

The event, the oldest National Championship in the world, will take place in Christchurch from the 2nd to the 6th of July.

The Assistant Chief Adjudicator will be SSGT Nick Johnson — Bandmaster of the New Zealand Army Band.

Before moving to New Zealand in 2009, he was the Warrant Officer Class One Bandmaster of the Welsh Guards Band based in London.


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