GBBA Virtual Solo and Ensemble Festival
The contest has been adjudicated and the results are out for the recent Gloucestershire Brass Band Association Virtual Solo and Ensemble Festival. Karin Lythell, GBBA secretary commented, “Congratulations to all prize winners and thank you to everyone who entered. We were delighted with the take up for the event, which spread beyond the GBBA. In the end Brett Baker had 48 individual performances to adjudicate, with musicians represents 18 different bands. Our sincere thanks go to Brett for his adjudications as well as to Michael Rath and Geneva Instruments for sponsoring the event. We hope to make it a regular event in our calendar for the future.”
Feedback for each performance has been sent to the individual contestants and the first three placings in each category can be viewed below.
Class A: 11 and Under Solo
1st Michael McDonald Share My Yoke by Joy Webb, arranged by Ivor Baosanko Spennymoor Town Band
2nd Phoebe Jones The Enchanted Trumpet by Allen Vizzutti Delph Youth Band
3rd Finley South Blues for Big Ears by Mark Nightingale Cheltenham Silver Band
Class B: 12 to 14 Solo
1st Toula Thomas Red White and Blues by Leonard Bernstein Royal Spa Brass
2nd Sophie Danks Flennon Study by David A Stowell Lydbrook Training Band
3rd Luna Arguelles Blues for Big Ears by Pink Panther Lydney Town Band
Class C: 15 to 17 Solo
1st Louis Charles Thomas Pas De Deux by Allen Vizzutti Parkend Silver Band
2nd Ella Lewis A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Maschwitz/Sherwin, arranged by Oliver Ledbury Bream Training Band
3rd Alasdair Woodward Study 14 by Bourgeois Lydney Town Band
Class D: Open Percussion Solo
1st Edward Jury The Double Bubble Duchess by March Shaiman and Scott Wittman, arranged by Chris Burgess Lydbrook Training Band
Class E: Open Slow Melody Solo
1st Samantha Ford Elegy, 2nd Movement from the Tenor Horn Concerto by Phillip Wilby Filton Concert Brass
2nd Anthony Smith Candlelight Carol by John Rutter, arranged by David Griffiths Filton Concert Brass
3rd Claire Cooke All That I Am by William Himes Sovereign Brass
Class F: Air Varie & Technical Solo
1st Matt Rowe Auld Lang Syne by Simone Mantia, arranged by Keith Wilkinson Flowers Band
2nd Thomas Dunne Hummingbird by Steven Bryant Filton Concert Brass
3rd David Hirst Maid of the Mist by Herbert Clarke Sovereign Brass
Class G: Open Ensemble
1st Samantha Ford and Thomas Dunne (duet) Sontata in Canon No.1, Movement 3 by Telemann Filton Concert Brass
2nd Elizabeth Forster and Eleanor Forster (duet) Blues in Bb by Jack Gale Forest of Dean Brass and Bream Training Band
3rd H’6tet (sextet) The Melody Shope by Karl King, arranged by Micah Roberts
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