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Past Contest Test Pieces
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Open Brass Band
Year | Open A Grade | Open B Grade | Open C Grade | Open D Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 | A Lowry Sketchbook (Wilby) | Journey to the Bermuda Triangle (Karoonyavanich) | Pastiche (Ford) | Neverland (Bond) |
2025 | The Legend of King Arthur (Meechan) | Buckley's Change (McCunnie) | Carnival (Perkin) | I, Dadaelus (Price) |
2024 | The Cosmographic Mystery (Vilhelmsen) | Three Extraordinary Journeys (Sparke) | The Lost Village of Imber (Bond) | A Bournemouth Suite (Tubb-Hearne) |
2023 | Metropolis 1927 (Graham) | Rhapsody on St. Francis (Wainwright) | Ravenhill Suite (Gates) | Vengeance (McCunnie) |
2022 | Of Distant Memories (Gregson) | Legacy (Davoren) | A Cambrian Suite (Ball) | Neverland (Bond) |
2021 | Tristan Encounters (Ellerby) | Cross Patonce (Richards) | Napolean on the Alps (Harper) | World Tour (Newton) |
2020 Nationals | Torchbearer (Graham) | Traversada (Waespi) | Viking Age (Deleruyelle) | A Royal Mile Suite (Fernie) |
2019 | A Brussels Requiem (Appermont) | Aotearoa (Sparke) | Darkwood (Price) | St. Andrew's Variations (Fernie) |
2018 | Fraternity (Deleruyelle) | Cry of the Mountain (Lorriman) | St. Austell Suite (Downie) | The Journal of Phileas Fogg (Graham) |
2017 | Rococo Variations (Gregson) | The Kingdom of Dragons (Harper) | Canadian Folk Song Suite (Calvert) | The Pacemakers (Gregson) |
2016 | …Dove Descending (Wilby) | Essay (Gregson) | Saint-Saëns Variations (Sparke) | An English Pastorale (Jones) |
2015 | Breath of Souls (Lovatt-Cooper) | Fanfares and Love Songs (Higgins) | Darkness Visible (Grantham) | Three Spanish Impressions (Fernie) |
2014 | On the Shoulders of Giants (Graham) | A Moorside Suite (Holst) | An English Suite (M. Ball) | A British Isles Suite (Bates) |
2013 Nationals | Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Bourgeois) | Lyonesse (Dobson) | Northern Landscapes (Graham) | Prelude, Song and Dance (Golland) |
2012 | The Red Priest (Wilby) | Royal Parks (Lloyd) | Willow Pattern (Harper) | Voices of Youth (Gregson) |
2011 | Montage (Graham) | Prisms (Graham) | A Celtic Suite (Sparke) | A Haslemere Suite (Graham) |
2010 | The New Jerusalem (Wilby) | The Saga of Haakon the Good (Sparke) | The Once and Future King (Baker) | Four Little Maids (Carr) |
2009 | Harmony Music (Sparke) | Chaucer's Tunes (M. Ball) | The Dark Side of the Moon (Lovatt-Cooper) | Little Suite for Brass No. 1 (Arnold) |
2008 | -- Not Held -- | |||
2007 | -- Not Held -- | |||
2006 | Harrison's Dream (Graham) | Le Roi D'Ys (Lalo/Wright) | Indian Summer (Ball) | |
2005 | Chivalry (Ellerby) | Coventry Variations (Tovey) | Seven Wonders (Bloomfield) | Partita (Gregson) |
2004 | Pageantry (Howells) | Cross Patonce (Richards) | A Downland Suite (Ireland) | The Seasons (Wilby) |
2003 | Seascapes (Steadman-Allen) | St Paul's Suite (Holst/Kenyon) | Petite Suite de Ballet (Ball) | |
2002 | English Heritage (Lloyd) | Fanfare and Variations (Barry) | Chorale and Toccata (Bulla) | St. Michael's Mount (Ball) |
2001 | Paganini Variations (Wilby) | A Celtic Suite (Sparke) | Music for a Festival (Sparke) |
Open Concert Band
Year | Open A Grade | Open B Grade | Open C Grade | Open D Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 | Moondani Dances (Carter) | The Last Flight Out (Likhuta) | Land of Enchantment (Chambers) | Silent Movie (West) |
2025 | The Creation of Faith (Blackshaw) | Infinite Hope (Balmages) | Tarantella (Chambers) | Overture Spiritoso (Hultgren) |
2024 | Overture to Candide (Bernstein / Grundman) | Freedom Rising (Giroux) | The Stone Guest (Hogg) | Adventure to Empress Falls (Manton) |
2023 | Me Disagrees (Likhuta) | Cry of the Last Unicorn (Galante) | Tirana (Barnett) | The Visionaries (Hogg) |
2022 | To Walk With Wings (Giroux) | Viva Musica (Reed) | Gypsies (Jones) | To Create a Voice (Chambers) |
2021 | Give Us this Day (Maslanka) | Invocation and Toccata (Barnes) | The Light Eternal (Swearingen) | Three Dorset Songs (Vaughan Williams) |
2020 Nationals | The Speed of Heat (Giroux) | Puszta (van der Roost) | Pikes Peak (Balmages) | Suite of Old French Songs (Daehn) |
2019 | The Year of the Dragon (Sparke) | Korean Folk Songs from Jeju Island (Ticheli) | Fate of the Gods (Reinecke) | Celebration and Song (Sheldon) |
2018 | Aspen Jubilee (Nelson) | Four Norfolk Dances (Sparke) | Prelude, Sicliano and Rondo (Arnold/Paynter) | Three London Miniatures (Camphouse) |
2017 | An Outdoor Overture (Copland) | Billy the King (Copland/Hilliard) | Appalachian Spring (Copland/Longfield) | Old American Songs (Copland/Moss) |
2016 | Danceries (Hesketh) | An Original Suite (Jacob) | Greek Folk Song Suite (Cesarini) | Suite of Old French Songs (Daehn) |
2015 | Symphony for Band (Persichetti) | Spangled Heavens (Grantham) | Children's Folk Song Suite (Walczyk) | Suite from Bohemia (Nelhybel) |
2014 | Theme and Variations (Schoenberg) | San Antonio Dances (Ticheli) | Plymouth Triology (Iannaccone) | Three Ayres from Gloucester (Stuart) |
2013 Nationals | Yiddish Dances (Gorb) | Illyrian Dances (Woolfenden) | Three Klezmer Miniatures (Sparke) | Simple Gifts (Ticheli) |
2012 | Paris Sketches (Ellerby) | Bridges Over the River Cam (Bourgeois) | Southwest Saga (Sheldon) | Encanto (R.W. Smith) |
2011 | Suite of Old American Dances (Bennett) | Vesuvius (Ticheli) | A Little Concert Suite (Reed) | Whispers of the Wind (Shaffer) |
2010 | Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger) | Overture for a New Age (de Haan) | Cajun Folk Songs (Ticheli) | Renaissance Festival and Dances (Pearson) |
2009 | Armenian Dances Part 1 (A. Reed) | Ross Roy (de Haan) | Gypsy Dance (Compello) | Scenes from a Royal Tapestry (Johnson) |
2008 | -- Not Held -- | |||
2007 | -- Not Held -- | |||
2006 | ||||
2005 | Vesuvius (Ticheli) | Northbridge Portrait (Bulla) | ||
2004 | Aotearoa (Sparke) | A Moorside Suite (Holst/Wright) | ||
2003 | Evocations (Ellerby) | The Loaded Dog (Lloyd) | Ross Roy (de Haan) | |
2002 | Highland Fling (Barker) | Dolce and Dance (Fagan) | Renaissance (Susato) | |
2001 | Armenian Dances Part 2 (Reed) | First Suite in Eb (Holst) | Three Songs from Sussex (Stuart) |
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