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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:

The Trophy section was adjudicated by John Barber and Mark Landon and was won by The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

"UniBrass Trophy Results table: 
Place 1: 139 Points - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Joshua Geddes*, Alan Gifford*)
Place 2: 138 Points - Huddersfield (Jonathan Beatty)
Place 3: 130 Points - Chichester (Emma Button)
Place 4: 129 Points - Warwick (Tom Stoneman)
Place 5: 124 Points - York (Abigail Rongong*)
Place 6: 122 Points - Manchester, Salford, MMU (Ben Hill-Wilson*)
Place 7: 121 Points - Durham (Alex Romanec*)
Place 8: 120* Points - Royal Holloway (James Begg)
Place 9: 120 Points - Oxford (Alice Knight*, David Pugh*)
Place 11: 117 Points - Leeds (Matthew Pitman*)
Place 12: 112 Points - Bristol (Imogen McAra*)"

Bands with * next to points denotes where musicality points took precedent over entertainment points.

Conductors marked with * were student conductors

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Other prizes were awarded by the adjudicators as follows

"UniBrass Trophy Prizes table: 
Best Solo/Feature: Jacob Hickson | Euphonium | O Hear Us | Huddersfield
Best March: Huddersfield | The Padstow Lifeboat
Most Entertaining: Huddersfield
Best Student Conductor: Joshua Geddes & Alan Gifford | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Best Percussion Section: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Audience Award: York"

The Shield section was adjudicated by Brett Baker and Helen Varley and was won by the Lancaster University.

"UniBrass Shield Results table: 
Place 1: 144 Points - Lancaster (Hugh Streets*, Christopher Pollock*)
Place 2: 142 Points - Southampton (Oliver Picken*)
Place 3: 141* Points - Birmingham (Stuart Birnie)
Place 4: 141 Points - Nottingham (Becky Brundrett-Hall*, Jonathan Fielden*)
Place 5: 138 Points - Bangor & Liverpool (Dominic Wearne*)
Place 6: 135 Points - Cambridge (Sam Thackray*)
Place 7: 134* Points - King's College London (Alex Borland)
Place 8: 134 Points - Cardiff (Ianto Williams*)
Place 10: 128 Points - Bath (Aaron Jones*)
Place 11: 127 Points - UEA (Katy Stone*)"

Bands with * next to points denotes where musicality points took precedent over entertainment points.

Conductors marked with * were student conductors

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Other prizes were awarded by the adjudicators as follows:

"UniBrass Shield Prizes table: 
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"
"UniBrass Prizes table: 
Best Student Composition or Arrangement: Sam Thackray | Emergence | Cambridge
Spirit of UniBrass: Scott Henderson | Lancaster"

Other prizes were awarded across both sections as follows:

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