CONTEST RESULTS

Brass in Concert

Date: 15 Nov 2025
Venue: Glasshouse International Centre for Music (formerly Sage), Gateshead
Music Adjudicator(s): Florent Didier, Ben Haemhouts
Entertainment Adjudicator(s): Anne Crookston, Sue Collier, Al Booth
Soloist Adjudicator(s): Jocelyne Moren

Pos Band Conductor Draw Music Ent Total
1 the cooperation band Katrina Marzella-Wheeler 3 185 Flag
2 Brighouse & Rastrick Dr David Thornton 11 179 Flag
3 Cory Philip Harper 1 175 Flag
4 The GUS Band Christopher Bond 4 155 Flag
5 Brass Band Schoonhoven A Erik Janssen 8 155 Flag
6 Flowers Paul Holland 9 150 Flag
7 Foden's Michael Fowles 7 146 Flag
8 Aldbourne Glyn Williams 10 137 Flag
9 Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Allan Withington 6 129 Flag
10 Kleppe Musikklag Tormod Flaten 5 129 Flag
11 KNDS Fairey Mark Heron 2 110 Flag

Banks Group Trophy (quality of performance): the cooperation band
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Trophy (best entertainment and presentation): Brass Band Schoonhoven

Best programme content: Brass Band Schoonhoven

Audience entertainment trophy: Foden's

Geoffrey Whitham Trophy (best soloist): Gary Curtin (euphonium, Foden's)

Beere Family Memorial Trophy (best new composition or arrangement): Brass Band Schoonhoven (playing Bring the Bass (Simon Dobson))

Harry Mortimer Trophy (best principal cornet): Alex Ramsay (the cooperation band)
Gateshead MBC Trophy (best soprano cornet): Paul Richards (Flowers)
Thomas Bulmer Memorial Trophy (best euphonium): Chris Robertson (Brighouse & Rastrick)
Don Lusher Trophy (best trombone): Chris Thomas (Flowers)
The Bennett Family Trophy (best flugel): Stephanie Kennedy (the cooperation band)
Gordon Higginbottom Trophy (best horn): Jonathan Bates (Foden's)
North of England Regional Committee Trophy (best baritone): Elliot Harrington (Flowers)
John Fletcher Trophy (best basses): Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
Louis and Colin Johnson Memorial Trophy (best percussion): Flowers

Dougie Grieve Trophy (youngest player): Olava Petra Thorgrimsen-Stensvold, age 17 (Kleppe Musikklag)