The University Brass Band Championships
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UniBrass 2024
The 2024 Contest was hosted by the University of Warwick and was held on Saturday 17th 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
139
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Joshua Geddes*, Alan Gifford*)
2
138
Huddersfield (Jonathan Beatty)
3
130
Chichester (Emma Button)
4
129
Warwick (Tom Stoneman)
5
124
York (Abigail Rongong*)
6
122
Manchester, Salford, MMU (Ben Hill-Wilson*)
7
121
Durham (Alex Romanec*)
8
120*
Royal Holloway (James Begg)
9
120
Oxford (Alice Knight*, David Pugh*)
10
117*
Sheffield (David McLaren)
11
117
Leeds (Matthew Pitman*)
12
112
Bristol (Imogen McAra*)
The Trophy section was adjudicated by John Barber and Mark Landon 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
Other prizes were awarded by the adjudicators as follows:
Category
Winner
Best Solo/Feature
Luke Barber | Cornet | Caprice - 'Zelda' | Birmingham
Best March
Birmingham | The Cossack
Best Percussion Section
Bangor/Liverpool
Audience Award
Cardiff
Most Entertaining
Lancaster
Best Student Conductor
Oliver Picken | Southampton
The Shield section was adjudicated by Brett Baker and Helen Varley and was won by the Lancaster University.
Position
Points
Band (Conductor)
1
144
Lancaster (Hugh Streets*, Christopher Pollock*)
2
142
Southampton (Oliver Picken*)
3
141*
Birmingham (Stuart Birnie)
4
141
Nottingham (Becky Brundrett-Hall*, Jonathan Fielden*)
5
138
Bangor & Liverpool (Dominic Wearne*)
6
135
Cambridge (Sam Thackray*)
7
134*
King's College London (Alex Borland)
8
134
Cardiff (Ianto Williams*)
9
131
Keele (Ben Spindler*)
10
128
Bath (Aaron Jones*)
11
127
UEA (Katy Stone*)
Bands with * next to points denotes where musicality points took precedent over entertainment points.
Conductors marked with * were student conductors
Other prizes were awarded by the adjudicators as follows:
Category
Winner
Best Solo/Feature
Luke Barber | Cornet | Caprice - 'Zelda' | Birmingham
Best March
Birmingham | The Cossack
Most Entertaining
Lancaster
Best Student Conductor
Oliver Picken | Southampton
Best Percussion Section
Bangor/Liverpool
Audience Award
Cardiff
The following prizes were awarded across both sections:
Category
Winner
Best Student Composition or Arrangement
Sam Thackray | Emergence | Cambridge
Spirit of UniBrass
Scott Henderson | Lancaster