Maryborough Best of Brass - 2007
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Bundaberg 2007
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Windsor Brass do it again - Nambour 2006
Windsor Brass success at Best of Brass, Maryborough 2006
2006 Australian National Championships, Brisbane
2006 Nationals Photo Gallery - the prayers, the preparation and the celebration
Windsor Brass at the pre-contest concert with conductor Richard Madden
Enormous accolades must be given to the enthusiastic efforts of Excelsior "Windsor Brass". With Richard Madden as conductor, this was their first ever Nationals competition and to achieve a credible 5th place in B Grade was a wonderful achievement.
Friends unite at the post contest social - Kelly, Dale, Olivia and Imelda
Windsor Brass Quartet - Cathy Spratt, Susan Snape, Ros Shaw and Allen Clark
Allen Clark, Drum Major and proud father of Shimona, who carried the Banner for Windsor Brass, take time out to be photographed, prior to marching in the Parade of Bands in the 2006 National Band Championships held in Brisbane over Easter. The band received just rewards for hard work at practice, by being placed second in B Grade, their most successful marching achievement to date
2005 Nambour Contest
2005 Qld State Championships
Listen to Windsor play their stage march Aces High - click here (mp3 file approx 3MB)
Nambour Festival of Brass, 2004
Windsor Brass, their first time contesting the C Grade section, achieved first place in the Concert program and Street March, and second place in the Hymn Tune, cementing their overall victory for the C Grade section which was contested by 8 other bands. In his debut conducting gig, an ecstatic Dale Hosking proudly ventured to the stage to collect the trophies for Windsor Brass. Adjudicated by Bryan Hurdley, this is truly an outstanding victory for Windsor!
Windsor Brass conducted by Dale Hosking
Dale Hosking and Bryan Hurdley
Other solo and enemble results for the weekend include:
U19 Any other Instrument - Imelda Moore 2nd
Junior Ballad - Imelda Moore 1st
Open Ballad - Dale Hosking 2nd, Cathy Spratt 3rd
Soprano - Dale Hosking 1st
Bb Cornet - Brent Hoy 1st, Paula Russell 2nd, Rodney Everitt 3rd
Flugel - Cathy Spratt 1st
Horn - Imelda Moore 1st
Eb Bass - Julie Woods 3rd
Ensemble - XLCR 1st, Windsor Brass 3rd
Brisbane Excelsior Ensemble - Lindon Weise, Imelda Moore, Ben McLeod, Allan Clark, Allan Lonergan
Brisbane Excelsior did not compete in the band events on this occasion.
Best of Brass, Maryborough, 2004
The weekend began with an Excelsior domination of the solo events. In the Senior section, our members won the Soprano section (Dale Hosking), Flugel Horn (Amanda Casagrande), Tenor Horn (Imelda Moore from Brisbane Brass on permit but who is now a member!), Baritone (Brad Hosking), Eb Tuba (Mark Wheeler from Cairns Brass on permit!), Bb Tuba (Rick Casagrande), and in the Junior Cornet - Zaac Latter. In all, our two bands had 19 soloists entered. Mark Beilby, our accompanist for the day, was counted as performing 24 times!!
Howard Taylor was once again sensational in his leadership of Brisbane Excelsior and Windsor Brass over the weekend.
Windsor Brass were ecstatic with their wins in every section of the D Grade Competition held in Maryborough on the 12-13 June, 2004.
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Jeff Herbert, the principle cornet for Windsor Brass, had an outstanding weekend. Not only did he lead the band to success, at 77 years of age, Jeff also performed twice in the solo events on the weekend.
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They showed themselves to be the best not only on stage, but also on Parade as seen here - led by Cathy Spratt-Bulloch.
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