Future Events

• We believe this contest will be run on 18 Oct 2025 at Market Place Theatre, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK

Past Results

Date	Winner	Conductor	Test Piece
12 Oct 2024	C.W.A.	Gary Proctor	Fanfares and Love Songs
14 Oct 2023	Roughan Silver	Stephen Crooks	Lake of the Moon
22 Oct 2022	Roughan Silver	Stephen Crooks	Kaleidoscope [Sparke]
17 Oct 2021	CWA Brass	Gary Proctor	Three Extraordinary Journeys
12 Oct 2019	Lourdes Brass	Michael Alcorn	Purcell Variations [Downie]
20 Oct 2018	Roughan Silver	Stephen Crooks	Viking Age
14 Oct 2017	Drogheda Brass Band	Michael Maher	Chaucer's Tunes
22 Oct 2016	Drogheda Brass Band	Michael Maher	Evolution - Five States of Change
17 Oct 2015	Lourdes Brass Band	Michael Hannan	Hollywood!
18 Oct 2014	Drogheda Brass Band	Michael Maher	Renaissance
19 Oct 2013	Drogheda Brass Band	Michael Maher	Kingdom of Dragons
13 Oct 2012	Third Carrickfergus Brass	Desmond Graham	The Once and Future King
22 Oct 2011	St. Joseph's Brass	Noel Barr	Variations on Maccabeus
16 Oct 2010	Downshire Brass	Michael Alcorn	Partita for Band - Postcards from Home
31 Oct 2009	Drogheda Brass Band	Michael Maher	Resurgam
01 Nov 2008	St. Joseph's Brass	Noel Barr	Prelude and Jubilate
13 Oct 2007	Downshire Brass	Windsor Hylands
28 Oct 2006	Third Carrickfergus	Desmond Graham	Oceans
22 Oct 2005	Downshire Brass	Windsor Hylands	The Deep
30 Oct 2004	Downshire Brass	Unknown	Dancing in the Park
25 Oct 2003	Third Carrickfergus Silver Band	Desmond Graham	Northern Landscapes
2002	3rd Carrickfergus	Desmond Graham	The Plantagenets
27 Oct 2001	Downshire brass	Unknown	A Salford Sinfonietta
21 Oct 2000	Ballyduff	William Hill
11 Apr 1999	Downshire	Unknown
25 Oct 1998	Drogheda Brass Band	Michael Maher	Three Miniatures [Sparke]
26 Oct 1997	Drogheda Brass Band	Michael Maher	California Legend
26 Oct 1996	Ballyduff	William Hill	Hollywood!
21 Oct 1995	3rd Carrick	Desmond Graham	Sinfonietta [Horovitz]
29 Oct 1994	3rd Carrick	Desmond Graham	Partita [Gregson]
23 Oct 1993	CWS	Brian Connolly	The Aeronauts
24 Oct 1992	Downshire	Billy McAuley	Cityscapes [de Haan]
26 Oct 1991	Ashgrove	D. Orr	Triptych [Sparke]
27 Oct 1990	Ashgrove	D. Orr	A Saddleworth Festival Overture
21 Oct 1989	Reid Memorial	Billy McAuley	St. Paul's Suite
22 Oct 1988	Ashgrove	D. Orr	Cassation
24 Oct 1987	Wellington	Unknown
01 Nov 1986	CWS	Harry Brittain	Rêves d'Enfants (Infant Dreams)
02 Nov 1985	Drogheda Brass Band	Harry Kelly	Sunset Rhapsody
20 Oct 1984	Wellington	Unknown	A French Suite
22 Oct 1983	Reid Memorial	Unknown	Prometheus Unbound
1983
30 Oct 1982	St. Colmans	Unknown	Sinfonietta for Brass Band [Langford]
14 Nov 1981	Reid Memorial	Unknown	The Shipbuilders
15 Nov 1980	Murley	Unknown	Academic Festival Overture
08 Oct 1979	Murley	Unknown	Three Inventions
27 Oct 1978	Strandtown	Unknown	Rhapsody on British Sea Shanties
19 Nov 1977	Strandtown	Unknown
13 Nov 1976	3rd Carrickfergus BB & Old Boys Silver Band	Windsor Hylands	Coriolanus
08 Nov 1975	Tyrone Youth Band	Unknown
24 Nov 1974	Ballyduff Silver Band	Unknown
17 Nov 1973	Strandtown Silver Band	Unknown
18 Nov 1972	Ballyduff Silver Band	Unknown
20 Nov 1971	Ligoniel Silver Band	Unknown
18 Nov 1970	Ligoniel Silver Band	Unknown
12 Nov 1969	Ballynahinch Silver Band	Unknown
13 Nov 1968	Ballyduff Silver Band	Unknown
15 Nov 1967	Strandtown Silver Band	Unknown
12 Nov 1966	Ballynahinch Silver Band	Robert Adair	Music for the Royal Fireworks
12 Nov 1965	Old Park	John Burch	The Great City (Suite)
15 Nov 1964	Eleanor McKee Memorial Silver Band	Unknown
23 Nov 1963	2nd Coleraine Company BB Old Boys Silver Band	W. Lake	Snowdon Fantasy
01 Dec 1962	Newtownards Silver Band	Norman McDonald	Four Preludes
11 Nov 1961	2nd Coleraine Old Boys	W. Lake	Suite Ancienne
12 Nov 1960	Ballynahinch Silver Band	Unknown
14 Nov 1959	Strandtown Silver Band	Unknown
15 Nov 1958	Botanic Silver Band	Unknown	A Tchaikowsky Suite [arr. Cook]
20 Nov 1957	Strandtown Silver Band	Unknown
31 Oct 1956	St. Thomas Silver Band	R. E. Bell	Rufford Abbey
04 Nov 1955	Ligoniel Silver Band	Unknown	In Tudor Days
10 Nov 1954	Bloomfield Amateur Silver Band	Unknown	Call of the Sea
04 Nov 1953	Eleanor McKee Memorial Silver Band	Unknown
15 Nov 1952	Eleanor McKee Memorial Silver Band	Unknown	Songs Without Words
05 Nov 1951	Templemore School Band	Alfred Bell	Excerpts from Elijah [arr. D. Rimmer]
06 Nov 1950	Ballymena	James Woodcock	Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals
07 Nov 1949	East Belfast Silver Band	Unknown	Homage to Pharaoh
08 Nov 1948	Ballymena Silver Band	James Woodcock	Divertimento [Ball]
03 Nov 1928	Portadown Old Boys	Unknown	O'er Hill and Dale
11 Dec 1925	55th Old Boys	Unknown