Full Results – LBBA Open Brass Band Competition 2022

The official results from the LBBA Open Competition, held at Loughborough Foundation Schools, Leicestershire on Sunday 20th November 2022 are as follows:

Championship Section

Adjudicator – Alan Morrison

Trainee – Rob Burnett

1. Brunel Brass (Daniel Hall) Essence Of Time

2. Ratby Co-Operative (Mareika Gray) Titans Progress

3. Enderby Band (Stephen Phillips) Paganini Variations

4. Unite the Union (Jonathan Beatty) Music of the Spheres

5. Kidlington Concert (Duncan Wilson) Gregoritas

6. Wantage Band (Jonothan Pippen) The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

7. Hucknall & Linby (Paul Whyley) Tallis Variations

• Best Instrumentalist – Soprano Cornet – Brunel Brass

• Best Trombones – Ratby Co-operative

• Best Tenor Horn – Unite the Union

First Section

Adjudicator – Nicholas Garman

1. Sandhurst Silver (David Johnson) Of Distant Memories

2. Chalford Band (Steve Tubb) Symphonietta No. 3

3. Foss Dyke Band (Gareth Westwood) Purcell Variations

4. Kibworth Band (Brendon Caddy) Trittico

5. AW Parker (Drybrook) (Joshua Ruck) Prisms

6. Soham Comrades Band (Jayne Murrill) Chivalry

7. Hathern Band (David Newman) Land of the Long White Cloud

8. Oddfellows Band (Ben Smith) Connotations

• Best Instrumentalist – Euphonium – Sandhurst Silver

Second Section

Adjudicator – Martin Heartfield

Trainee – Stuart Gray

1. Diggle Band (Sean Conway) Purcell Variations

2. Waterbeach Brass (David Minchin) Purcell Variations

3. Stamford Brass (Julian Bright) Ghosts, Goblins, Witches & Wizards

4. City of Coventry (David Nicholson) Day of the Lord

5. Harborough Band (Brad Turnbull) The Aeronauts

6. Leicestershire Co-Op (Luke Pallister) The Plantagenets

7. City of Cambridge (Phillip Fisher) Variations on Maccabeus

8. Bedford Town (Craig Patterson) Essence of Time

9. Wigston Band (Ian Needham) Rhapsody in Brass

10. Ibstock Brick Brass (Chris Banks) Dimensions

• Best Instrumentalist – Soprano Cornet – Diggle Band

Third Section

Adjudicator – Sam Fisher

1. Raunds Temperance (John Hudson) Music for a Festival

2. Littleport Brass (Ian Johnson) Rhapsody in Brass

3. Ireland Colliery Chesterfield (Sam Johnston) Dark Side of the Moon

• Best Instrumentalist – Euphonium – Raunds Temperance

Fourth Section

Adjudicator – Sam Fisher

1. Stalybridge Old Band (Martyn Evans) Shipbuilders

2. Thrapston Town (Nathan Waterman) A Malvern Suite

3. Matlock Band (Chris Banks) A Malvern Suite

4. Croft Silver (Henry Dunger) St Andrews Variations

5. Corby Silver (Andy Mayell) Divertimento for Brass

6. Abbey Brass (Rob Tompkins) New Beginnings

7. Syston Band (Colin Jones) Hollywood

8. Brunel Brass Academy (Daniel Hall) Journal of Phileaus Fogg

9. University of Warwick (Tom Stoneman) Hungerford Town

10. Royston Town Band (Steve Earley) Neverland

• Best Instrumentalist – Soprano Cornet – Stalybridge Old Band

• Best Trombones – Thrapston Town