CONTEST RESULTS

US Open (Division I)

Date: 22 Nov 2025
Venue: Performing Arts Center, Clarkston, Michigan
Adjudicator(s): Stephen Bulla, James Gourlay, Jessica Sneeringer

Pos Band Conductor Draw Points
1 Chicago Brass Band Mark A Taylor 1 361
2 Five Lakes Silver Band Christopher Ward 2 351
3 Dublin Silver Band Dr Timothy Jameson 3 345

Niermeyer Award (most entertaining band): Chicago Brass Band
Best featured brass soloist: Beth Malovance (flugel horn, Chicago Brass Band)
Best new composition or arrangement: ? (played by Dublin Silver Band)
Best performance of a march: Chicago Brass Band, playing ?

Best cornet section: Five Lakes Silver Band
Best flugel and tenor horn section: Chicago Brass Band
Best trombone section: Imperial Brass (Division II)
Best euphonium and baritone section: Chicago Brass Band
Best bass section: Five Lakes Silver Band
Best percussion section: Chicago Brass Band

Outstanding individual performer (division I): Megan Fritz (horn, Five Lakes Silver Band)
Outstanding individual performer (division II): Mike Connor (cornet, Imperial Brass)

Each of the adjudicators awarded points out of 100 (music and performance) and 25 (entertainment)