Set Works for 2022 NBK Announced

The Dutch Brass Band Championships (NBK) has announced the set works that will test the bands across five divisions. The challenging works on display in Utrecht during the last weekend of October will prove popular with bands and audiences alike.  The selected test pieces are:

‘Argos’ by Stephan Hodel (fourth division)
‘Albinus Variations’ by Etienne Crausaz (third division)
‘Sanctuary!’ by Daniel Hall (second division)
‘James Cook –Circumnavigator’ by Gilbert Vinter (First Division)
‘Redbad’ by Jan de Haan (championship division)

It has also been announced that there has been a change in the process of choosing the Netherlands Band to represent the nation at future European Championships. It comes as a response from organisers due to Covid-19 and of a consideration to enable the representative band to have more than a six-month period to raise funds and prepare for the event.

The 2021 National Champion Soli Brass will represent the nation in Malmo in Sweden in 2023, with the 2022 winner being invited to compete at the 2024 event in Palanga, and the 2023 winner heading to Stavanger in Norway in 2025.

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