The University Brass Band Championships
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UniBrass 2023
The 2023 Contest was hosted by the University of Warwick and was held on Saturday 11th February at the Warwick Arts Centre.
Total scores were calculated taking time penalties into account. In the event of a tie, musicality points were taken over entertainment points.
The full results are as follows:
Position
Points
Band (Conductor)
1
133
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Matthew Ludford-King*, Alan Gifford*)
2
133*
Chichester (Emma Button)
3
132
Leeds & Leeds Conservatoire (Gethin Elis)
4
131
Durham (Alex Romanec*)
5
131
Bristol (Alex Hyde*)
6
127
York (Becky Lund)
7
126
Huddersfield (Jonathan Beatty)
8
122
Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan (Ben Hill-Wilson*)
9
118
Sheffield (Jack Aitken)
10
117
Nottingham (Emily Shell* & Paul Emmett*)
11
114
Birmingham (Stuart Birnie)
The Trophy section was adjudicated by Phillip Harper and Sheona White and was won by The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Bands with * next to points denotes where musicality points took precedent over entertainment points.
Conductors marked with * were student conductors
The University of Bristol were deducted 2 points as a time penalty.
Other prizes were awarded by the adjudicators as follows:
Category
Winner
Best Student Conductor
Alice Knight - Oxford
Best March
Warwick - Death or Glory
Best Solo/Feature
Royal Holloway - Hannah Griffin (Flugel) - Concierto de Aranjuez
Most Entertaining
Oxford
Best Percussion Section
Royal Holloway
Audience Award
Cardiff
The Shield section was adjudicated by Helen Williams and Anri Adachi and was won by the Oxford University.
Position
Points
Band (Conductor)
1
146
Oxford University (Alice Knight*)
2
145
University of Warwick (Tom Stoneman)
3
140
Bangor & Liverpool Universities (Dominic Wearne*)
4
138
Royal Holloway University of London (Cole Bryan* & Asia Bonuccelli*)
5
137
King's College London (Alex Borland*)
6
134
Cambridge University (Keelan Colechin*)
7
133
Lancaster University (Edmund Matthews* & Sean Barlow*)
8
131
Cardiff University (Ianto Williams* & Evie Ingles*)
9
130
Southampton University (Kevin Ponte*)
10
126
University of Bath (Aaron Jones*)
11
124
Keele University (Ben Spindler*)
Bands with * next to points denotes where musicality points took precedent over entertainment points.
Conductors marked with * were student conductors
The University of Bath were deducted 2 points as a time penalty
Other prizes were awarded by the adjudicators as follows
Category
Winner
Best Solo/Feature
Royal Holloway - Hannah Griffin (Flugel) - Concierto de Aranjuez
Best March
Warwick - Death or Glory
Most Entertaining
Oxford
Best Student Conductor
Alice Knight - Oxford
Best Percussion Section
Royal Holloway
Audience Award
Cardiff
The following prizes were awarded across both sections:
Category
Winner
Best Student Composition or Arrangement
Undiscovered (Jude Radley) — Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Spirit of UniBrass
Hannah Griffin - Royal Holloway University of London