Future Events

• We believe this contest will be run on 02 Mar 2025 at Huddersfield Town Hall, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Past Results

Date	Winner	Conductor	Test Piece
03 Mar 2024	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Variations on an Enigma
05 Mar 2023	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Red Priest
06 Mar 2022	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Contest Music
07 Mar 2021	Continued uncertainty over COVID-19 sees the 2021 series of regional championship events cancelled.
08 Mar 2020	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	A Tale as yet Untold
03 Mar 2019	Brighouse & Rastrick	David Thornton	Seascapes
04 Mar 2018	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Odyssey [Norbury]
05 Mar 2017	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Pageantry
06 Mar 2016	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Cambridge Variations
08 Mar 2015	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Phillip McCann	The Torchbearer
02 Mar 2014	Brighouse & Rastrick	David King	St. Magnus
03 Mar 2013	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Phillip McCann	Harmony Music
04 Mar 2012	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
06 Mar 2011	Brighouse & Rastrick	David King	Paganini Variations
07 Mar 2010	Brighouse and Rastrick	David King	English Heritage
08 Mar 2009	Rothwell Temperance	David Roberts	Salute to Youth
02 Mar 2008	Black Dyke Band	Nicholas Childs	Festival Music (Symphonic Suite)
04 Mar 2007	Brighouse & Rastrick	Alan Morrison	Isaiah 40
05 Mar 2006	Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal)	Allan Withington	Journey to the Centre of the Earth
06 Mar 2005	Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal)	Richard Evans	Overture to Rienzi [arr. Lorriman]
07 Mar 2004	Yorkshire Building Society	David King	Tristan Encounters
02 Mar 2003	Brighouse & Rastrick	Ian McElligott	Prague
03 Mar 2002	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Whitsun Wakes
04 Mar 2001	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	Jazz
05 Mar 2000	Yorkshire Building Society	David King	Variations on an Enigma
28 Feb 1999	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	John Hinckley	Blitz
01 Mar 1998	Black Dyke (1855)	James Watson	Montage
01 Mar 1997	Brighouse and Rastrick	Allan Withington	A Lowry Sketchbook
17 Mar 1996	Grimethorpe Colliery	Peter Parkes	Sounds
26 Feb 1995	Brighouse and Rastrick	Allan Withington	Un Vie de Matelot (A Sailor's Life)
27 Feb 1994	Yorkshire Building Society Hammonds	David King	Partita [Sparke]
14 Mar 1993	David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial	Alan Exley	Of Men and Mountains
08 Mar 1992	Brighouse and Rastrick	Allan Withington	Frontier!
10 Mar 1991	Grimethorpe Colliery	Frank Renton	Journey into Freedom
11 Mar 1990	John Foster Black Dyke Mills	David King	The Beacons
12 Mar 1989	Brighouse and Rastrick	Derek Broadbent	Prisms
13 Mar 1988	I.M.I. Yorkshire Imperial	James Scott	Ballet for Band
22 Feb 1987	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	Diversions on a Bass Theme
23 Feb 1986	Brighouse and Rastrick	James Watson	Variations on a Theme by Haydn
24 Feb 1985	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	Contest Music
26 Feb 1984	Brighouse and Rastrick	James Watson	Waverley
13 Mar 1983	Grimethorpe Colliery	Peter Parkes	Images [McCabe]
14 Mar 1982	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Geoffrey Brand	Essay for Brass Band [Gregson]
08 Mar 1981	Yorkshire Imperial	John Pryce-Jones	Variations on the Shining River
09 Mar 1980	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Peter Parkes	Beatrice & Benedict
11 Mar 1979	Brighouse and Rastrick	Geoffrey Brand	Variations for Brass Band [Vaughan Williams]
26 Feb 1978	Grimethorpe Colliery	James Scott	The Belmont Variations
27 Feb 1977	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Denis Carr	Pageantry
29 Feb 1976	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Trevor Walmsley	Spectrum [Vinter]
16 Feb 1975	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Trevor Walmsley	Journey into Freedom
17 Feb 1974	Grimethorpe Colliery	James Scott	Variations on a Ninth
18 Feb 1973	Grimethorpe Colliery	Elgar Howarth	The Plantagenets
13 Feb 1972	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Trevor Walmsley	Concert Overture for Brass Band
15 May 1971	Carlton Main	Robert Oughton	A Joyful Noise
09 May 1970	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Trevor Walmsley	The Corsair
10 May 1969	Hammonds Sauce Works	Geoffrey Whitham	Diadem of Gold
11 May 1968	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	Themes From Beethoven's 8th Symphony
26 Mar 1967	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	Festival Music (Symphonic Suite)
26 Mar 1966	Black Dyke Mills	Major Cecil Harry Jaeger	Le Roi d'Ys
06 Mar 1965	Black Dyke Mills	Major Cecil Harry Jaeger	Themes from the First Symphony [Beethoven]
21 Mar 1964	Black Dyke Mills	Major Cecil Harry Jaeger	Symphony of Marches
23 Mar 1963	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	Overture to Rienzi [arr. Johns]
24 Mar 1962	Crossley's Carpet Works	John Harrison	Salute to Youth
25 Mar 1961	Black Dyke Mills	George Willcocks	Les Preludes [arr. Rimmer]
02 Apr 1960	Brighouse & Rastrick	Trevor Walmsley	Themes from Symphony no. 5 [Tchaikovsky, arr. Ball]
14 Mar 1959	Black Dyke Mills	George Willcocks	Wuthering Heights
29 Mar 1958	Black Dyke Mills	George Willcocks	The Moor of Venice
06 Apr 1957	Carlton Main Frickley	Jack Atherton	Themes from Symphony no. 9 [Beethoven]
14 Apr 1956	Black Dyke Mills	Jack Emmott	Orion [Bantock]
23 Apr 1955	Black Dyke Mills	Harry Mortimer	The Severn Suite
10 Apr 1954	Brighouse & Rastrick	Eric Ball	Clive of India
18 Apr 1953	Black Dyke Mills	Alex Mortimer	Rhapsody in Brass
26 Apr 1952	Brighouse & Rastrick	Eric Ball	Resurgam
14 Apr 1951	Brighouse & Rastrick	Eric Ball	Atlantic [Wright]
15 Apr 1950	St. Hilda's	George Hespe	Festival Overture [Geehl]
23 Apr 1949	Brighouse & Rastrick	Milnes Wood	Morning Rhapsody
29 Mar 1948	Brighouse & Rastrick	Eric Ball	Fantasia in F
22 Mar 1947	Black Dyke	Harry Mortimer	Akhnaton
06 Apr 1946	Brighouse and Rastrick	Eric Ball	A Downland Suite
23 Jun 1945	Black Dyke Mills	Arthur Oakes Pearce	Lorenzo
24 Jun 1944	Brighouse and Rastrick	Fred Berry	Academic Festival Overture
26 Jun 1943	Black Dyke Mills	Arthur Oakes Pearce	Themes from Symphony No. 5 [Beethoven]