Yorkshire Regional 2016 Results

RESULTS
YORKSHIRE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Venue: St. Georges Hall, Bradford

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Championship Section:
Test Piece: Cambridge Variations (Philip Sparke)
Adjudicators: Michael Ball and Philip Sparke

1. Black Dyke (Prof. Nicholas J Childs)**
2. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Russell Gray)**
3. Hepworth (Mark Peacock)
4. Rothwell Temperance (David Roberts)
5. Hammonds Saltaire (Morgan Griffiths)
6. Grimethorpe Colliery (Dr. Robert Childs)
7. City of Bradford (Lee Skipsey)
8. Brighouse & Rastrick (Leigh Baker)*
9. Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel (Stig Maersk)
10. Strata Brass (Dr Owen Wedgwood)
11. Unite the Union (City of Sheffield) (David Hirst)
12. Marsden Silver (John Hinckley)

Best Principal Cornet: Kirsty Abbotts (Carlton Main Frickley Colliery)
Best Soloist: Zoe Hancock (Flugel) - Black Dyke
Best Instrumentalist: Timpanist, (Hepworth)
Youngest Player: Keir Luc Evans-Brown (aged14) - Strata Brass

*Pre-qualified for the National Final
** Qualify for the National Final

First Section:
Test Piece: Essay (Edward Gregson)
Adjudicators: John Doyle and Howard J Evans

1. Chapeltown Silver (Andrew Dennis)*
2. Hatfield (Stan Lippeatt)*
3. Lindley (Ian Knapton)
4. Elland Silver (Daniel Brooks)
5. Drighlington (John Roberts)
6. Knottingley Silver (Kevin Belcher)
7. Skelmanthorpe (Jim Davies)
8. Cornerstone Brass (Damian Wileman)
9. Hebden Bridge (Alan Hobbins)
10. South Yorkshire Police (Grenville Moore)
11. Hade Edge (Jonathan Beatty)
12. Clifton & Lightcliffe (John Clay)
13. Meltham & Meltham Mills (Norman Law)

*Top two bands qualify for National Final

Best Soloist: Jef Vermeiren (cornet) - Drighlington 
Youngest Player: Haydn Osborne (aged 11) Lindley

Second Section:
Test Piece: The Mermaid of Zennor (Philip Harper)
Adjudicators: John Doyle and Philip Sparke

1.Stannington (Derek Renshaw)*
2. Old Silkstone (Sam Fisher)*
3. Horbury Victoria (Philip Goodwin)
4. Skelmanthorpe Prospect (Philip Garlick)
5. Wakefield Metropolitan (Stig Maersk)
6. Kippax (Jack Smith)
7. Slaithwaite (Robert Westacott)
8. Emley (Garry Hallas)
9. Frickley/South Elmsall (Kyle Blake)
10. Barnsley Brass (William Rushworth)
11. Dinnington Colliery (Lindon Bolt)

*Top two bands qualify for National Final

Best Soloist: Toni Durrant (baritone) - Old Silkstone
Youngest Player: Keira Littewood (aged 10) - Dinnington Colliery

Third Section:
Test Piece: A Cambrian Suite (Michael Ball)
Adjudicators: Dr Robert Childs and Michael Dodd

1. Crofton Silver (Dean Jones)*
2. Dronfield Genquip (Simon Kerwin)*
3. Oughtibridge (Gavin Somerset)
4. Worsbrough Brass (John Hopkinson)
5. West Yorkshire Police (Kevin Wadsworth)
6. BD1 Brass (Chris Lewis)
7. Maltby Miners (Terry Clifford)
8. Barnsley Metropolitan (Alex Francis)
9. Armthorpe Elmfield (Hayden Griffiths MBE)
10. Dodworth Colliery M.W. (Eliot J. Darwin)
11. Clifton & Lightcliffe 'B' (John Clay)
12. Wetherby Silver (Michael Crowther)

*Top two bands qualify bands for National Final

Best Soloist: Andrew Clutton (cornet) - Crofton Silver 
Youngest Player: Genevieve Heiland (aged 8) – Oughtibridge

Fourth Section:
Test Piece: The Journal of Phileas Fogg (Peter Graham)
Adjudicators: Mike Kilroy and John Winterflood

1. Lofthouse 2000 (Andrew Whitaker)*
2. Rockingham (Adam Whittle)*
3. Thurcroft Welfare (Matthew Wright)
4. Huddersfield & Ripponden (Adam Bell)
5. Deepcar (Cathryn Rogers)
6. Tingley (John Belton)
7. Linthwaite (Tommy Tynan)
8. Friendly Band (Sowerby Bridge) (Neil Robinson)
9. Gawthorpe Brass '85' (John Edward)
10. Loxley Silver (Lee Dunkley)

*Top two bands qualify for National Final

Best Soloist: James Whittaker (cornet) - Lofthouse 2000
Best Percussion: Rockingham
Youngest Player: Robert Thorpe (aged 9) - Rockingham

PHOTO: Black Dyke's Richard Marshall and Martin Irwin - Courtesy Steve Jack