The University Brass Band Championships
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UniBrass 2025
The 2025 Contest was hosted by the Cardiff University and was held on Saturday 15th February at the Students Union and School of Music.
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
141
Birmingham (Stephen Kane)
2
138
Huddersfield (Jonathan Beatty)
3
134
Manchester & Salford (Harry Bennett*)
4
133
Oxford (Esme Harper*, Joe Sollis*)
5
124
Warwick (Tom Stoneman)
6
122
Durham (Daniel Marsh*)
7
121
Royal Holloway (James Begg)
8
114
Leeds & Leeds Conservatoire (Chiron Leather*)
9
113
Chichester (Emma Button)
10
112
Southampton (Kevin Smith)
11
109
York (Neo Borgia*)
12
106
Lancaster (Hugh Streets*, Christopher Pollock*)
The Trophy section was adjudicated by Mark Wilkinson and Ailsa Russell and was won by the University of Birmingham.
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 Percussion Section
Bath
Most Entertaining
Sheffield
Best Student Conductor
Jake Wingfield | Bristol
Most Innovative Programme
Bristol
Audience Award
Cardiff
Best Solo/Feature
Charlie Coldwell | Cornet | Rusalka's Song To The Moon | Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam
Best March
Nottingham | The Red Shield
The Shield section was adjudicated by Christopher Bond and Emily Evans and was won by the Universities of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam.
Position
Points
Band (Conductor)
1
142
Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam (Christopher Oddy*)
2
137*
Cardiff (Ianto Williams, Tia Teague*)
3
137
Bristol (Jake Wingfield*)
4
136
Nottingham (Pawel Nieweglowski*, Becky Brundrett-Hall*)
5
131
King's College London (Alex Baker)
6
128
UWE (Anri Adachi)
7
126
Keele (Ben Spindler)
8
125*
Bangor (Abigail Grant*)
9
125
Cambridge (Rahul Joshi*)
10
123
Bath (Aaron Jones*)
11
119
UEA (Harrison Grover*)
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
Charlie Coldwell | Cornet | Rusalka's Song To The Moon | Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam
Best March
Nottingham | The Red Shield
Most Entertaining
Sheffield
Best Student Conductor
Jake Wingfield | Bristol
Best Percussion Section
Bath
Audience Award
Cardiff
Most Innovative Programme
Bristol
The following prizes were awarded across both sections:
Category
Winner
Best Student Composition or Arrangement
Christian Goodwin | Hydra | Oxford
Spirit of UniBrass
Jacob Hickson | Huddersfield