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New Zealand National Championships (A Grade)

Sat 11 Apr 2026



Format: Sacred, Set Test and Own Choice Contest
Test Piece: Taniwha 2025
Adjudicators: Russell Gray
Venue: Michael Fowler Centre (Concert Hall), Wellington, New Zealand

Position Band Conductor Music Draw Test Piece Sacred Own Choice Total
1 North Shore Brass Nigel Weeks His Provision
A Brussels Requiem 2017
6 98 48 99 245
2 Woolston Brass Phillip Johnston The Light of the World
This World 2024
7 97 48.5 97 242.5
3 Wellington Brass David Bremner
Reuben Brown
Silent Vigil 2003
A Gabrieli Fantasy 2021
1 95 47.5 98 240.5
4 Hutt City Brass Matthew Stein And can it be? 2019
Music of the Spheres 2004
4 96 46 95 237
5 Hamilton City Brass Te Reo Hughes Be Thou My Vision [arr Wainwright] 2019
Bipolar 2019
5 94 46.5 93 233.5
6 Auckland City Brass Mark Close Be Thou My Vision [arr Wainwright] 2019
Vita Aeterna Variations (Variations & Fugue on an Original Theme) 2011
3 92 45 90 227
7 Waitakere Auckland Brass Steven Booth World, O World
Tristan Encounters 1998
2 91 45 91 227

Best Own Choice Test Piece Performance (The Mervyn Waters Memorial Cup): North Shore Brass
Best Sacred Item Performance (The Les Francis Memorial Trophy): Woolston Brass
Best Test Piece Performance (The Norman Goffin Memorial Cup): North Shore Brass
Conductor of Champion Band (KGL Smith Trophy For Excellence): Nigel Weeks, North Shore Brass
Conductor of the Best Own Choice Test Piece Performance (Mervyn Waters Memorial Trust Cup): Nigel Weeks, North Shore Brass

Best Section in Test Piece (Jack McDonnell Memorial Shield): Percussion, North Shore Brass
Best Principal Cornet in Own Choice (BBANZ Gil Evans Memorial Cup): Harmen Vanhoorne, North Shore Brass
Best Soloist in Test Piece (Elgar Clayton Memorial Trophy): Walter Hughes (Euphonium), Hamilton City Brass





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