In what was a fine contest, the remaining top-six places went to Irvine & Dreghorn's impressive number 1 marker of colour and dynamic engagement, Broxburn & Livingston's brightly charged approach and Jedforest's more considered refinement. Fraser's Ground Pavane is a nicely-paced contrast, a reflective moment in this programme. St David's Brass (John A Dickson): 178 10. It organises the European Brass Band Championship, a competition for brass bands from different countries, and also offers support and resources for brass band musicians and organisations. 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. It was a wonderful moment for the band and their MD, Angela Miller. It's time for another conductor swap, with Alastair Gibson re-taking the baton for When the Saints Go Marching In before an arrangement of Old Mcdonald Had a Farm. Soprano, flugelhorn, euphonium and trombone are among the soloists to shine. The Girl Who Sat on the Hill brings the bands programme - and the weekend of performances - to a close with tasty harmonies, the rhythmic work positively bristling with energy. The major challenges seem to come in 'Green' where the safety first dynamic option found the soprano and especially horn too often submerged in ensemble foliage. A Little Prayer sees the programme take a reflective turn before Bandstood Boogie, which remains under control throughout. Rococo Variations was commissioned by the British Open Championships for the 2008 contest in Symphony Hall, Birmingham. The band opens its programme with Alan Fernies Growing Pains, an engaging account featuring a fine contribution from a very hard working horn team. Bad Guy, by Billy Eilish, is laced with 'attitude', the band clearly relishing this piece - and every moment of its time on stage amid the grandeur of Perth Concert Hall. Campbeltown Brass (Stephanie Mitchell): 188*2. Confidence continues around the stand too, in baritone, euphonium and cornet, as the Yorkshire outfit seeks to make a real impression at the Scottish Open. Well done, Miss cornet player, who performs her solo with confidence! You sold it to us. Scottish Championship Also/previously known as: Scottish Band Association Contest Contests Years We have events for this contest in these years. Today, it's all about the stars of the future, as part of the Scottish Youth Brass Band Championships! This is a performance imbued with light and shade, while theres an endearing, old-fashioned quality to the sound., which blends so well. West of England It was a point picked up by Sandy in what he felt was "the best" First Section contest he had heard here for some time. The sounds around the stand have a sheen to them; trombones are a fine example, the control and balance refined throughout. 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. Not a learner band. While it's not without ensemble fragilities, it's a commanding reading from Anne Crookston, steering a second movement which ebbs and flows and retains refinement in the upper reaches of cornets' register. For the Black Dyke Director of Music, he will look to add to his record of 38 Championship Section Area titles in Durham, whilst the duo will be reunited at the Grand Shield in May a contest won together in 2017. Good morning and a very warm welcome to Perth for the Scottish Festival of Brass. Not so with Granite City led by Bruce Wallace. After that the placings and marks represented, "how well the bands captured the style of Gordon Langford", but also the "tightness of ensemble" which she said could be heard in the first four bars of the piece. If you're including contest results please remember to include the date, and as much detail about the contest as you can (conductor, adjudicators, set test piece etc.). Coalburn Percussion Academy features young performers on an array of instruments, from tuned to timps - and drum kit, of course. 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'. The stamp of authoritative class over domestic rivals was evident, although they know that they will have to up their game markedly if they are to make a return to the British Open. 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. Johnstone (Mark Good): 18010. Bravo. Scottish Championships 2022 - FULL RESULTS CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION. 3) Dalmellington Brass Academy | Cameron Paterson. Sheona highlighted the need, "to pass the musical baton" with the linear phrasing, with Sandy using that 'radar' analogy to highlight the need for players to link the 'fragmented' structures of the Heaton score. Is something on this page incorrect? Scottish Power Pipe Band at the British Championships at Battery Park on Saturday 21 May 2022.This was a medley competition and the tunes listed in the progr. 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 5) Campbeltown Brass Juniors | Katrina Barr. Its full of fun - but the discipline remains in the playing, which is to members credit. The Blue Riband 'Champion of Champions' accolade was won by Murray Borthwick of North Shore Brass. Neat and nimble work from basses passes to trombones, who pick up with aplomb, and a neat grooves develops in percussion to underpin brass. There's no shortage of commitment from this group, with every single person around the stand giving their all as they embrace their moment on stage. 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. Tullis Russell (Ray Munday): 186*3. The West Lothian band finds a lightness of touch and is clearly working hard with many of the core elements of playing, including balance and intonation. John McCabes Cloudcatcher Fells was used as the test piece for the National Brass Band Championship in the same year and remains a challenge almost 40 years later. A measured opening soon kicks into a heavy rock feel, driving kit underpinning the famous melodic lines - and Mr drummer is in his element, impressive fills bringing the piece to a rousing close. January February March, by Jamie McVicar, opens the programme from the second of today's outfits from Campbeltown. It's engaging, too, only occasionally getting a little strident. The percussion section underpins the following piece, Djembe Funk, with similar assurance. 4) Scottish Borders Youth Brass Band | Alan Fernie. It features confident solo cornet playing and again, the band works hard to find the light and shade in the music. Scottish Championships (2nd Section) Winners - 1908, 1968, 1971, 1996 Scottish Championships (2nd Section) Runners-up - 1926, 1937, 1949, 1987 Scottish Championships (2nd Section) 3rd Place - 1955 Scottish Championships (3rd Section) Runners-up - 1948, 1967 Scottish Championships (3rd Section) 3rd Place - 1947, 1965 Previous Post. Lower Clyde Pipes and Drums 2. Total scores were calculated taking time penalties into account. Cooperation is leaving no stone unturned, Michael Fowles meticulous in his quest to help guide the band to its first Scottish Open title since 2013; ironically, he was the conductor to wrestle it away from coop's grasp when he won with Whitburn the following year. It opens with a trip to the movies. 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. After a quick hi-hat fix, it's straight on with the final movement, in which the energy and fervour returns in abundance. They used what they were given and made music properly in the style of Langford.". Test piece: Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)Adjudicators: Sandy Smith and Sheona Wade, 1. Among the soloists to shine is principal horn player, Andrew McMillan, an unassuming charm to his virtuosity. Whitburn Wee Band takes to the stage with Growing Pains, the set work in the Preparatory Section. They could have flown there on their power of their celebrations on Saturday evening. The cornet sounds are especially elegant, Nicholas Childs drawing a sweetness from the players around the stand in the latest performance of this recent Gregson work, the result of a collaboration among several banding nations. The programme continues with set work, Growing Pains, in which the Midlothian band demonstrates good balance and awareness of the key lines at any one time. 11th June, 2022 11th June, 2022 / News / By Paul Brown. Copyright 2022 Brass Band Results & Tim Sawyer, All Rights Reserved, Printed from https://brassbandresults.co.uk/, Scottish Championship (Championship Section), Scottish Area (Daily Herald Qualifying) Contest. Intonation is settled and the sounds are impressive from the second of Whitburn's bands to perform today (and the third this weekend). Brass are grooving and, although it has its ensemble challenges, Jim Bone keeps his young players on board en route to the piece's conclusion. 12) Fishburn Band | Duncan Beckley - English Heritage (George Lloyd). document.write(' name="x_owner" '); The band's outstanding young flugel player Iain Lowry took the 'Best Instrumentalist' prize. As they did the following day Sheona Wade and Sandy Smith gave detailed analyses of what they were looking for, and what they heard from the performances. 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. "We were jigging about in our seats", Sandy admitted in his pre-results remarks. Recent News All the Latest RSPBA NI News More News Latest Events Click Here to view all our events Principal Funders Funders This work was first set as the test-piece for the 2010 British Open and pays tribute to this diversity and to the great American brass virtuosi. document.write(' name="x_url" '); Roads, by Ian Mundy, opens with good momentum; there's a confidence apparent throughout this performance from Coalburn Bronze Band, another fine banding organisation with pathways for players as they develop in experience. The closest to pipping them came from a finely controlled Tullis Russell, as the experienced Ray Munday provided an admirable structure on which his players (especially a fine dep sop) could shine. Ah, those pesky results. The intricate euphonium and baritone work marches forward purposefully and theres a sense of poise is apparent in the performance en route to a warm, engaging close. 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. The band appears to settle into its stride as the piece progresses, feeling particularly at ease in the warmer corners of the piece, which was commissioned for the European Brass Band Championships in Falkirk in 1990. Comments from adjudicators Chris . As it hurtles towards the latter stages of the pieces, the virtuosic soloists of yesteryear float in and out of the musical mist, snippets of well-kent solos bubbling to the fore in fleeting - quality - glimpses. Dark, sinister sounds to open from Easington Colliery, courtesy of impressive trombones, in the Bruckner-inspired fanfares. Kilmarnock Concert Brass scooped a coveted gong in the Scottish Brass Band Association (SBBA) Regional Brass Band Championships, bagging top prize in the Scottish 3rd Section. Eye of the Tiger enjoys strong momentum throughout, nimble cornet melodies underpinned by secure bass and percussion grooves. The MD and players of Campbelltown though deserve to be flown to Cheltenham for the National Finals after yet another super victory. Basses do their bit, a magnificent platform on which to build a band sound, and Gary Williams guides the Ayrshire band to a confident close. It's straight into the set work, Growing Pains, for Coalburn Bronze Band, and there's a heavy rock feel to the band's interpretation of Alan Fernie's music. Include your email address if you like. document.write('
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