Fountain City are NABBA Champions 2019
Congratulations to Fountain City Brass Band who retained the North American Brass Band Association National title this weekend. The band impressed with superb performances of 'Partita' by Wilfred Heaton and 'A Brussels Requiem'by Bert Appermont under the baton of Professor David King. The adjudicating panel of William Himes, Keith Wilkinson, Allan Ramsay and Stephen Bulla were clearly impressed awarding the band a sizeable lead over runners-up James Madison University, resulting in an eighth victory for Fountain City. Making up the podium prizes was the Brass Band of Central Florida who was placed third, very narrowly ahead of James Madison University.
Results:
Championship Section:
Set Work: 'Partita' (Wilfred Heaton)
1. Fountain City (Prof David King) — 291.6
2. James Madison University (Kevin Stees) — 280.0
3. Brass Band of Central Florida (Gareth Pritchard) — 279.6
4. Atlantic Brass Band (Salvatore Scarpa) — 278.8
5. Chicago Brass Band (Dr Colin Holman) — 273.2
6. Georgia Brass Band (Trey Harris) — 266.4
7. Colorado Brass (Randall Hoepker) — 261.8
8. San Antonio Brass Band (Matthew Mireles) — 255.6
First Section:
Set Work: 'Another World's Hell' (Simon Dobson)
1. Dublin Silver Band (Dr Tim Jameson) — 280.4
2. Illinois Brass Band (Stephen Squires) — 277.6**
3. Central Ohio Brass Band (Jessica Sneeringer) — 270.2*
4. Rockville Brass Band (Nigel Horne) — 269.8***
5. Oakland University Brass Band (Dr Kenneth Kroesche) — 267.8****
6. Five Lakes Silver Band (Dr Steven Kandow) — 261.2**
7. Arkansas Musicworks William Ratcliffe) — 258.6******
8. Madison Brass Band (Craig Mason) — 257.2***
Second Section:
Set Work: 'Coventry Variations' (Bramwell Tovey)
1. Capital City Brass Band (Jim Otto) — 278.6
2. Motor City Brass Band (Craig Strain) — 276.6
3. Milwaukee Festival Brass (Mark A Taylor) — 274.0
4. New England Brass Band (Stephen Bulla) — 273.4
5. Upper Canada Brass (Rita Arendz) — 269.8
6. Fillmore Philharmonic Brass (N/K) — 269.4
7. Youth of Central Florida (Aaron McGarvey) — 268.4
8. Cincinnati Brass Band (Jon Noworyta) — 266.4
9. River Brass (Dr Pat Stuckemeyer) — 266.4
10. Austin Brass Band (John Caputo) — 263.3
Third Section:
Set Work: 'Chorale & Toccata' (Stephen Bulla)
1. Old Crown Brass Band (TJ Faur) — 282.2
2. Triangle Brass Band (Tony Granados) — 275.8
3. Fountain City Academy (Lee Harrelson) — 270.0
4. Dublin Metro Brass (William Ballenger/Kevin Wallack) — 256.8
Youth Championship Section:
1. Fountain City Honor — 284.8
2. Watson Brass Band — 283.0**
Youth First Section:
1. Triangle Youth — 286.0
Youth Open Section:
1. Fountain City Youth — 273.0***
2. Triangle Youth Academy — 272.0
3. Avon High School — 267.0
Overall total is weighted 60% for test-piece and 40% for rest of programme
Tiebreaker: The band with the highest test-piece
Second Tiebreaker: The band rated higher on the test-piece by two of the three judges
Time penalty imposed at rate of 1 point per judge for each minute or fraction of a minute by which the maximum stage time is exceeded
* 3 point time penalty
** 6 point time penalty
*** 9 point time penalty
**** 12 point time penalty
***** 15 point time penalty
****** 18 point time penalty
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