Future Events

• We believe this contest will be run on 23 Feb 2025 at Winter Gardens (Opera House Theatre), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Past Results

Date	Winner	Conductor	Test Piece
25 Feb 2024	Skelmersdale	Benjamin Coulson	Triptych [Sparke]
26 Feb 2023	Whitworth Vale & Healey	Michael Golding	The Pilgrim's Progress
27 Feb 2022	Pemberton Old Wigan DW B	Jay Hall	The Aeronauts
28 Feb 2021	Continued uncertainty over COVID-19 sees the 2021 series of regional championship events cancelled.
23 Feb 2020	Uppermill	Dean Redfern	The Golden Sabre - Tales of the Hussar-Poet, Denis Davydov
24 Feb 2019	Bollington Brass	Peter Christian	Rise of the Phoenix
25 Feb 2018	Middleton	Kevin Gibbs	Ex Terra Lucem
26 Feb 2017	Flixton	Ian Brownbill	Rhapsody in Brass
28 Feb 2016	Haydock	Mark Quinn	The Mermaid of Zennor
01 Mar 2015	Tyldesley	Robert Taylor	Variations on Maccabeus
09 Mar 2014	Mossley	Duncan Byers	Chaucer's Tunes
10 Mar 2013	Whitworth Vale and Healey	John Binns	The Plantagenets
26 Feb 2012	Mossley	Duncan Byers	Cross Patonce
27 Feb 2011	Morecambe	Andrew Warriner	Resurgam
14 Mar 2010	Diggle	Jim Shepherd	Kingdom of Dragons
01 Mar 2009	Oldham (Lees)	John Collins	New World Sketches
09 Mar 2008	Wardle and District Anderson Brass	Sean Conway	Three Part Invention
11 Mar 2007	Wardle and District Anderson	Sean Conway	Carnival [Perkin]
12 Mar 2006	Blackpool Brass	Andrew Warriner	Images of the Millennium
13 Mar 2005	Wire Brass	Paul Andrews	Variations for Brass Band [Vaughan Williams]
14 Mar 2004	Old Hall Brass	Neil Parkinson	Kaleidoscope [Sparke]
09 Mar 2003	Bollington	Peter Christian	Celestial Prospect
10 Mar 2002	Moston & Beswick	Robert Taylor	Symphony for Brass [arr. Hopkinson]
11 Mar 2001	Dobcross Youth	Edward Griffiths	The Moor of Venice
12 Mar 2000	Oldham Brass '97	Andrew White	Sword, Jewel and Mirror
14 Mar 1999	United Norwest Co-op Milnrow	Ian Brownbill	Symphonic Suite for Brass
08 Mar 1998	Ashton-under-Lyne	Martyn Evans	Culloden Moor
09 Mar 1997	Haydock Ogden Travel	John Maines	A New Buckenham Suite
10 Mar 1996	Berisfords Cardway	Hugh Megarrell	Hollywood!
12 Mar 1995	United Co-op Crewe	Roy Sparkes	Rococo Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky [Street]
13 Mar 1994	Gorton Silver Band	David Evans	A Salford Sinfonietta
14 Mar 1993	United Co-op Crewe	Roy Sparkes	Oceans
22 Mar 1992	Longridge	Gordon Clough	Dimensions
24 Mar 1991	Bedford Leigh	Barry Taylor	Masque [Devreese]
25 Mar 1990	The Trafford Band	Jeff Norris	Forth Suite
19 Mar 1989	Lancashire Constabulary	Sandy Blair	Orion [Bantock]
27 Mar 1988	Marple	Garry Cutt	Royal Parks
29 Mar 1987	Boarshurst	Dave Morris	The Margam Stones
02 Mar 1986	Kennedy's Swinton Concert	David King	California Legend
24 Mar 1985	Bedford (Leigh) Band	Malcolm Brownbill	Music for a Brass Band
25 Mar 1984	Urmston & Davyhulme	Jeff Norris	Dimensions
20 Mar 1983	Darwen	Gordon Clough	Caprice Brass Fair
21 Mar 1982	Warburtons Bakery	John Durrant	Henry the Fifth [Vaughan Williams]
22 Mar 1981	Stalybridge Tetley Walker Band	Ernest Woodhouse	Concertino [Lane]
30 Mar 1980	Roberts Bakery Band	Colin Cranson	Concert Overture for Brass Band
01 Apr 1979	Leyland Vehicles	Richard Evans	Introduction, Elegy and Caprice
02 Apr 1978	Lancashire Constabulary	Harry Bentham	The Three Musketeers
03 Apr 1977	Lancashire Constabulary	William Hill	Morning Rhapsody
28 Mar 1976	East Lancs. Paper Group	Malcolm Brownbill	Tournament for Brass
23 Mar 1975	Poynton	Alan Lawton	Rhapsody in Brass
24 Mar 1974	Port Sunlight Royal British Legion	Gareth Thomas	Song and Dances
25 Mar 1973	Wigan & District	Edward Gray	The White Company
26 Mar 1972	Skelmersdale	William Lyon	Sinfonietta [Horovitz]
18 Apr 1971	Skelmersdale	William Lyon	Suite Gothique
12 Apr 1970	Hoggarth's	J. A. Hughes	First Suite in Eb [arr. Herbert]
20 Apr 1969	Rochdale	Norman Ashcroft	Second Suite in F
20 Apr 1968	Greenway Moor	Edward Gray	Vizcaya
06 May 1967			Kenilworth
26 Mar 1966	Cheetham Hill Public	N. Coglan	Quo Vadis?
10 Apr 1965	Mirrlees Works	Norman Ashcroft	Old English Suite: Three Castles
18 Apr 1964	Poynton Brass	Charles Holt	The Great City (Suite)
20 Apr 1963	Goodshaw (Crawshawbooth)	Frederick Lonsdale Garth	Spring Song
03 Mar 1962	Storeys of Lancaster Works	Arthur Brownbill	Peter Schmoll
22 Apr 1961	Cammell Laird	Rex Mortimer	Symphonic Suite for Brass
23 Apr 1960	Haigh Public	Harry Bentham	Galleons Reach
07 Mar 1959	Mossley Public	Derek Sanderson	Yorkshire Ridings Suite
26 Apr 1958	Hoggarth's Tractor Works	James Eddowes	Venus and Adonis
30 Mar 1957	Farnworth Old	Wright Hurst	Land of the Ever Young
24 Mar 1956	Farnworth Old	Wright Hurst	Snowdon Fantasy
16 Apr 1955	Chapel-en-le-Frith	J. A. Cooke	Thames Valley Suite
13 Feb 1954	Storeys of Lancaster	Arthur Brownbill	Call of the Sea
21 Mar 1953	Cheetham Hill Public	Fred Bonelli	King Lear
22 Mar 1952	Farnworth Old	Wright Hurst	Springtime
28 Apr 1951	Stretford Old	Ronald Yarwood	The English Maiden
04 Feb 1950	British Legion Oldham	Leonard Lamb	Three Brass Band Studies
26 Feb 1949	Rhyl Silver	Reg Little	Sirius [Wright]
13 Mar 1948	Pemberton Old	James Fairhurst	Four Preludes
08 Feb 1947	Leyland Motors	J. A. Hughes	Sinfonietta Pastorale
16 Mar 1946	Wigan Borough	Ted Farrington	Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
09 Jun 1945	Horwich Old	Arthur Hazelhurst	Carmen