Scottish Championship (Championship Section)

Qualifying contest for National Championship of Great Britain (Championship Section Final)

Scottish Championship (First Section)

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• We believe this contest will be run on 13th Mar 2022 at Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, UK. The testpiece will be Contest Music.

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Past Results

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Date	Winner	Conductor	Test Piece
8th Mar 2020	The Cooperation Band	Russell Gray	A Tale as yet Untold
10th Mar 2019	The Cooperation Band	Russell Gray	Seascapes
11th Mar 2018	Whitburn	Nicholas Childs	Odyssey [Norbury]
12th Mar 2017	Whitburn	Nicholas Childs	Pageantry
13th Mar 2016	Co-operative Funeralcare	Allan Ramsay	Cambridge Variations
15th Mar 2015	Whitburn	Nicholas Childs	The Torchbearer
9th Mar 2014	Co-operative Funeralcare	Nicholas Childs	St. Magnus
10th Mar 2013	Whitburn	Ian Porthouse	Harmony Music
11th Mar 2012	Co-operative Funeralcare Band	Nicholas Childs	The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
27th Feb 2011	Exchange Communications Whitburn	Ian Porthouse	Paganini Variations
14th Mar 2010	Co-operative Funeralcare	Russell Gray	English Heritage
22nd Mar 2009	Scottish Co-op	Russell Gray	Salute to Youth
9th Mar 2008	Whitburn	Russell Gray	Festival Music (Symphonic Suite)
11th Mar 2007	Kirkintilloch	Nigel Boddice	Isaiah 40
12th Mar 2006	Scottish Co-op	Nicholas Childs	Journey to the Centre of the Earth
13th Mar 2005	Newtongrange Silver	Allan Ramsay	Overture to Rienzi [arr. Lorriman]
14th Mar 2004	Scottish Co-op	Nicholas Childs	Tristan Encounters
9th Mar 2003	Scottish Co-op	Nicholas Childs	Prague
10th Mar 2002	Kirkintilloch	Frank Renton	Whitsun Wakes
11th Mar 2001	CWS (Glasgow)	Nicholas Childs	Jazz
19th Mar 2000	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	Variations on an Enigma
28th Feb 1999	Whitburn	Phillip McCann	Blitz
22nd Feb 1998	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	Montage
2nd Mar 1997	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	A Lowry Sketchbook
25th Feb 1996	CWS (Glasgow)	David King	Sounds
26th Feb 1995	Bo'ness & Carriden	Bryan Hurdley	Un Vie de Matelot (A Sailor's Life)
27th Feb 1994	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	Partita [Sparke]
28th Feb 1993	Murray International Whitburn	Peter Parkes	Of Men and Mountains
7th Mar 1992	Murray International Whitburn	Peter Parkes	Frontier!
2nd Mar 1991	Scottish Brewers (Newtongrange)	Keith Wilkinson	Journey into Freedom
3rd Mar 1990	Kirkintilloch	Frank Renton	The Beacons
4th Mar 1989	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	Prisms
5th Mar 1988	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	Ballet for Band
7th Mar 1987	Murray International Whitburn	Peter Parkes	Diversions on a Bass Theme
1st Mar 1986	Murray International Whitburn	Peter Parkes	Variations on a Theme by Haydn
2nd Mar 1985	Kirkintilloch Silver	Walter B. Hargreaves	Contest Music
3rd Mar 1984	Kirkintilloch Silver	Walter B. Hargreaves	Waverley
12th Mar 1983	Whitburn Burgh	Peter Parkes	Images [McCabe]
13th Mar 1982	Whitburn Burgh	Peter Parkes	Essay for Brass Band [Gregson]
14th Mar 1981	Whitburn Burgh	Peter Parkes	Variations on the Shining River
8th Mar 1980	Whitburn Burgh	Peter Parkes	Beatrice & Benedict
10th Mar 1979	Kilmarnock Concert Brass	Andrew Keachie	Variations for Brass Band [Vaughan Williams]
11th Mar 1978	Dalmellington	Richard Evans	The Belmont Variations
5th Mar 1977	Bo'ness & Carriden	David Richardson	Pageantry
13th Mar 1976	Dalmellington	Hugh Johnstone	Spectrum [Vinter]
15th Mar 1975	Whitburn Burgh	John Harrison	Journey into Freedom
16th Mar 1974	Whitburn Burgh Band	John Harrison	Variations on a Ninth
10th Mar 1973	Lochgelly Public	Enoch Jackson	The Plantagenets
18th Mar 1972	Whitburn Burgh	Alex Fleming	Concert Overture for Brass Band
27th Mar 1971	Scottish C.W.S.	Geoffrey Whitham	A Joyful Noise
2nd May 1970	Whitburn Burgh	Alex Fleming	Spectrum [Vinter]
12th Apr 1969	Dalmellington Silver	Hugh Johnstone	Le Carnaval Romain [arr. Wright]
24th Feb 1968	Whitburn Burgh	Alex Fleming	Themes From Beethoven's 8th Symphony
18th Feb 1967	Kinneil Colliery	John Kirkwood	Festival Music (Symphonic Suite)
19th Feb 1966	Kinneil Colliery	Alex Fleming	Blackfriars
29th May 1965	Scottish CWS	Alex Mortimer	Le Roi d'Ys
29th Feb 1964	Scottish C.W.S.	Alex Mortimer	Symphony of Marches
23rd Feb 1963	7th A. & S.H. (T.A.) Band, Bonnybridge	John Kirkwood	Overture to Rienzi [arr. Johns]
24th Feb 1962	Kinneil Colliery	John Kirkwood	Salute to Youth
25th Feb 1961	Hawick Saxhorn	James Amos	Les Preludes [arr. Rimmer]
9th Apr 1960	Scottish CWS	Alex Mortimer	Themes from Symphony no. 5 [Tchaikovsky, arr. Ball]
11th Apr 1959	Scottish CWS	Alex Mortimer	Wuthering Heights
1958	No Contest. No contest took place in 1958 because the contest dates were changed to synchronise with those of other area qualifying rounds of the National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain. Until 1958, bands qualifying from the Scottish region were taken from the previous year's Scottish Championship contest. From 1959 onwards, they have been taken from the current year's contest, now run earlier in the year than formerly was the case.
7th Dec 1957	Scottish CWS	Alex Mortimer	The Moor of Venice
1st Dec 1956	Clydebank Burgh	Rex Mortimer	Themes from Symphony no. 9 [Beethoven]
3rd Dec 1955	Clydebank Burgh	Alex Mortimer	Orion [Bantock]
4th Dec 1954	Forfar Instrumental	Elgar Clayton	The Severn Suite
5th Dec 1953	Govan Burgh	Gregor Grant	The Golden Hind
6th Dec 1952	Tullis Russell	Drake Rimmer	Unfinished Symphony [arr. Greenwood]
8th Dec 1951	Govan Burgh	Gregor Grant	Romeo and Juliet [Tchaikovsky, arr. D. Rimmer]
14th Oct 1950	Parkhead Forge Silver	Charles Telfer	Othello
29th Oct 1949	Coltness Works	Harold Moss	Jupiter Symphony
11th Sep 1948	Scottish CWS	Fred Mortimer	Henry V [Maldwyn Price]
27th Sep 1947	Scottish CWS	Fred Mortimer	Chopin [arr. Greenwood]
28th Sep 1946	Scottish CWS	Fred Mortimer	Les Preludes [arr. Rimmer]
29th Sep 1945	Coltness Works Silver	George Hawkins	The Valkyrie
25th Nov 1939	Barry, Ostlere and Shepherd	John Faulds	Robin Hood [MacFarren arr. Godfrey]
22nd Oct 1938	Scottish CWS	J. A. Greenwood	Beethoven's Works [arr. W. Rimmer]
23rd Oct 1937	Scottish CWS	J. A. Greenwood	Spohr's Faust
24th Oct 1936	Clydebank Burgh	William Halliwell	Bizet
1935	Scottish CWS	George Hawkins	Die Feen (The Fairies)
27th Oct 1934	Scottish CWS	George Hawkins	Haydn
28th Oct 1933	Clydebank Burgh	William Halliwell	Rienzi [arr. Cope]
29th Oct 1932	Govan Burgh	Gregor Grant	Berlioz
10th Oct 1931	Scottish CWS	George Hawkins	L'Etoile du Nord [arr. Godfrey]
11th Oct 1930	City of Edinburgh	F. Dimmock	Grand Selection: Mendelssohn's Works [arr. Rimmer]
12th Oct 1929	Govan Burgh	Gregor Grant	Carmen
13th Oct 1928	Motherwell and Wishaw	George Hawkins	Liszt's Works
12th Nov 1927	Scottish CWS	J. A. Greenwood	The Mastersingers (Die Meistersinger)
13th Nov 1926	Scottish CWS	J. A. Greenwood	Gounod [arr. W. Rimmer]
7th Nov 1925	Clydebank Burgh	William Halliwell	Eugene Onegin [arr. Godfrey]
1st Nov 1924	Scottish CWS	J. A. Greenwood	Adelson e Salvini
3rd Nov 1923	Clydebank Burgh	William Halliwell	Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) [arr. Godfrey]
7th Oct 1922	Clydebank Burgh	George Hawkins	Jessonda
22nd Oct 1921	Glasgow Loco	George Guy	Echoes of Meyerbeer [arr. Hawkins]
30th Oct 1920	Douglas Colliery	Robert Rimmer	Le Prophete [arr. R. Rimmer]
29th Nov 1919	Dunnikier Colliery	Robert Rimmer	Euryanthe [arr. Godfrey]
1st Dec 1917	Glasgow Loco Works	William Shaw	United Kingdom
24th Oct 1914	Dunnikier Colliery	Robert Rimmer	Parsifal
25th Oct 1913	Clydebank Burgh	William Halliwell	Haydn's Works
12th Oct 1912	Clydebank Burgh	William Halliwell	Les Huguenots [unknown arranger]
4th Nov 1911	Clydebank Burgh	J. W. Erskine	Liszt
1st Oct 1910	Clydebank Burgh	Edward Sutton	Faust [Gounod arr. Douglas]
4th Dec 1909	Clydebank Burgh	Edward Sutton	Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) [arr. Godfrey]
1908	Kelty & Blairadam	Friend Farrand	Faust [Gounod arr. Hawkins]
9th Nov 1907	Coltness Works	William Heap	Memories of Bellini
10th Nov 1906	Kelty & Blairadam	Friend Farrand	Les Huguenots [unknown arranger]
28th Oct 1905	Clydebank Burgh	Edward Sutton	Reminiscences of Tschaikowsky [arr. Godfrey]
1st Oct 1904	Polton Mills	Friend Farrand	Ivanhoe
31st Oct 1903	Bo'ness & Carriden	John Gladney Jnr	The Mastersingers (Die Meistersinger) [arr. Shipley]
25th Oct 1902	Broxburn Public	Albert Wade	Le Domino Noir [unknown arranger]
26th Oct 1901	Broxburn Public	C. Smith	Memories of Meyerbeer [arr. W. Rimmer]
27th Oct 1900	Clydebank Burgh	Edward Sutton	Memories of Britain
16th Dec 1899	Clydebank Burgh	Edward Sutton	Memories of Balfe
3rd Dec 1898	Clydebank Burgh	Edward Sutton	Memories of Rossini [arr. W. Rimmer]
9th Oct 1897	Alloa	James Robinson	Scotland
17th Oct 1896	Clydebank Burgh	Richard Marsden	Atilla [arr. Round]
19th Oct 1895	Bo'ness & Carriden	John Gladney Jnr	Eureka

Years	Band
1996 1997 1998	CWS (Glasgow)
1980 1981 1982 1983	Whitburn Burgh
1946 1947 1948	Scottish CWS
1909 1910 1911 1912 1913	Clydebank Burgh
1898 1899 1900	Clydebank Burgh

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Contest Group Notes

Prior to World War Two, this contest existed as a standalone Scottish Championship. From 1945 to 1950, Scottish entries to the National Championship of Great Britain were determined by the results of that year's Scottish Area (Daily Herald Qualifying) Contest. From 1951 to 1958, they were determined by the results of the previous year's Scottish Championships, and from 1959 onwards, they have been determined by the results of the same year's Scottish Championships, with the exception of 1965, 1969, and 1970, in which years separate regional qualifying contests were again run.

The first Scottish Championship was run in 1895, in two sections; the third section was added in 1905, and the fourth section in 1925. The contest has been run annually without interruption, barring the war years 1915-18 and 1939-44, and also 1958, which was omitted when the contest was moved from late in the year in 1957 to early in the year in 1959 in order to better mesh with the National Championship contesting structure.