Future Events

• We believe this contest will be run on 10 May 2025 at Winter Gardens (Pavilion Theatre), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Past Results

Date	Winner	Conductor	Test Piece
11 May 2024	Amersham	Paul Fisher	The New Jerusalem
13 May 2023	Llwydcoed	Joshua Ruck	A London Overture
07 May 2022	City of Bradford	Jonathan Bates	Freedom (Brass Band Symphony No. 1)
09 May 2020	Postponed due to Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.4barsrest.com/news/39117/2020-spring-festival-postponed
18 May 2019	Northop Silver	John Doyle	Symphonic Music
12 May 2018	Oldham (Lees)	John Collins	Diadem of Gold
13 May 2017	Filton Concert Brass	Tom Davoren	Fragile Oasis
14 May 2016	Rainford	Gareth Brindle	Music for Battle Creek
09 May 2015	Jaguar Land Rover	Dave Lea	Festival Music (Symphonic Suite)
26 Apr 2014	Wingates	Paul Andrews	English Heritage
11 May 2013	Woodfalls	Nicholas Childs	Capriccio Italien [arr. Broadbent]
12 May 2012	Northop Silver	Thomas Wyss	Elgar Variations
14 May 2011	Marsden Silver Prize	Glyn Williams	Prisms
15 May 2010	Woodfalls	Gareth Pritchard	The Year of the Dragon
09 May 2009	Marsden Silver Prize (Ossett Brewery)	Glyn Williams	Pageantry
10 May 2008	East Yorkshire Motor Services	Frans Violet	Elgar Variations
19 May 2007	Wingates Brass	Andrew Berryman	Dances and Alleluias
13 May 2006	Newstead Welfare	Duncan Beckley	Harmony Music
07 May 2005	Burry Port Town	Michael Thorne	Montage
08 May 2004	The Ransome Band	Russell Gray	Journey into Freedom
03 May 2003	Rothwell Temperance	David Roberts	Paganini Variations
11 May 2002	East Yorkshire Motor Services	Gareth Pritchard	Le Carnaval Romain [arr. Wright]
05 May 2001	Peter Hawke Garages Lindley	Neil Jowett	Prometheus Unbound
1983	Section not run, and not held again until 2001.
15 May 1982	Newcastle Brown Ale	Alan Hope	Entertainments
09 May 1981	Urmston and Davyhulme Silver	Geoffrey Seals	La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny) - Overture [arr. F. Wright]
17 May 1980	Yorkshire Bus Company	Edward Griffiths	Rococo Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky [Street]
19 May 1979	Hepworth	Peter Wadsworth	Sinfonietta [Horovitz]
07 May 1978	Queensbury Music Centre	Andrew Owenson	Little Suite for Brass Band No. 2
22 May 1977	Dobcross Silver	Peter Weston	Promenade
09 May 1976	Lancashire Constabulary	Frank Hough	Suite Gothique
10 May 1975	Thornsett	Brian Taylor	Scheherazade
04 May 1974	Northop Silver	Graham Jones	Simon called Peter
05 May 1973	Skelmersdale Prize	William Lyon	Main Street
06 May 1972	Hepworth Silver	George Kaye	A Victorian Rhapsody
08 May 1971	City of Coventry B	Jon Hall	From the New World [arr. D. Rimmer]
09 May 1970	Barrow Colliery	Frank Jaques	Themes from Symphony No. 5 [Beethoven]
17 May 1969	Hoyland Town	Maurice Thompson	Coriolanus
25 May 1968	Dove Holes Public	H. Hill	Devon Fantasy
29 Apr 1967	Grimethorpe Colliery Junior	William Lippeatt	Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals
28 May 1966	Whitworth Vale and Healey	Bram Gay	Music for the Royal Fireworks
15 May 1965	Linthwaite Silver	John Willie Morley	William Tell [arr. Rimmer]
09 May 1964	Hebden Bridge	Raymond Page	Suite in Bb [Jacob]
25 May 1963	Mirrlees Works	Norman Ashcroft	Spring Song
26 May 1962	Hepworth Silver Prize	George Kaye	Glastonbury
13 May 1961	Leeds Model	Peter Kitson	From the New World [arr. D. Rimmer]
28 May 1960	Gainsborough Britannia	Harvey Nuttall	Sunset Rhapsody
09 May 1959	Haigh Prize	Harry Bentham	Egmont [arr. Ball]
17 May 1958	Arley Welfare	Bill Brotherhood	Venus and Adonis
18 May 1957	Langwith Miners' Welfare	George Henry Thorpe	The Conquerors
26 May 1956	Templemore Avenue Silver	Alfred Bell	Second Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals
21 May 1955	Agnes St. Temperance	Ernest Ruddock	Thames Valley Suite
22 May 1954	Wharncliffe Silkstone	Edmund Hoole	Call of the Sea
16 May 1953	Prince-Smith & Stells Silver	John Moor	King Lear
17 May 1952	Clipstone Colliery Welfare	Jack Boddice	Othello