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Results: 2025 French National Championships

Haut-de-France claims a fifth consecutive French National title in Metz, with section wins for Brass Band De Gones, Brass Band Musicalis Algrange, Brass Band Lorient Bretagne Sud and Brass Band Brassaventure.

French National Championship
  Hauts de France led the way in Metz by claiming a fifth consecutive title

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Results:


Honours Division:

Adjudicators: Jonathan Bates, Russell Gray, Oliver Waespi
Set Work: As if a voice were in them (Oliver Waespi)
Set Work/Own Choice = Average Total

1. Hauts de France (Luc Vertommen): 92/99 = 95.50
2. Paris Brass Band (Glenn van Looy): 94/94 = 94.50

First Division:

Adjudicators: Jonathan Bates, Russell Gray, Oliver Waespi
Set Work: Out of the Storm Clouds (Jonathan Bates)
Set Work/Own Choice = Average Total

1. Brass Band De Gones (Anthony Galinier): 94/94 = 94.00
2. Brassage Brass Band (Maxime Bassa): 91/90 = 90.50
3. Brass Band Du Hainaut (Thibaut Bruniaux): 85/91 = 88.00
4. Brass Band Des Pays De La Loire (Hans Loirs): 87/86 = 86.50
5. Brass Band Accords (Cedric Rossero): 88/83 = 85.50*
6. Brass Band De Champagne (Bruno Nouvion): 83/88 = 85.50

*Set Work mark takes precedence

Second Division:

Adjudicators: Jonathan Bates, Russell Gray, Oliver Waespi
Set Work: In Flanders Fields (Roger Deronge)
Set Work/Own Choice = Average Total

1. Brass Band Musicalis Algrange (Sebastien Berettni): 86/88 = 87.00

Third Division:

Adjudicators: Jonathan Bates, Russell Gray, Oliver Waespi
Set Work: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Philip Harper)
Set Work/Own Choice = Average Total

1. Brass Band Lorient Bretagne Sud (Bernard Galinier): 93/88 = 90.50
2. Harmonie Municipale De La Gorgue (Arnaud Peru): 89/89 = 89.00
3. Brass Band Gouttes De Cuivre (Jerome Blanc): 85/87 = 86.00

Fourth Division:

Adjudicators: Jonathan Bates, Russell Gray, Oliver Waespi
Set Work: Argos (Stephan Hodel)
Set Work/Own Choice = Average Total

1. Brass Band Brassaventure (Medhi Mercier): 92/94 = 92.50
2. Brass Band Sagona (Laurent Douvre): 86/88 = 87.00
3. Brass Band De Jeunes Mosellans (Mathieu Reinert): 85/87 = 86.00
4. Ch'Ti Brass Band (Clement Hoogewys): 82/84 = 83.00
5. Brass Band Du Laonnois (Camille Geoffroy): 81/83 = 82.00

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