Previous Competition Winners
2025
The BTS Composers' Competition:
Winner: Robin Benton, UK (Celebration Fanfare)
2nd Place: Luís Marrocos, P (Farewell to Constantinople)
3rd Place: Joe Galuszka, UK (Ruby Red)
2024
The BTS Composers' Competition:
Ian Schwalbe, USA (Through The Concrete Jungle)
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition:
Joseph Smales, UK
The BTS Intercollegiate Trombone Choir Competition:
Royal College of Music, UK
The BTS Community Trombone Choir Competition:
South Coast Trombone Ensemble, UK
The BTS Trombone Quartet Competition:
The Outsliders, UK (Robyn Anderson, Pau Hernández Santamaria, Meggie Murphy and José Teixeira)
The BTS Sackbut Competition:
Claire-Ombeline Muhlmeyer, UK
The BTS Alto Trombone Competition:
Jamie Reid, UK
2023
The BTS Composers' Competition:
Ian Schwalbe, USA (Go Where You Please)
2022
The BTS Composers' Competition:
Alberto Maniaci (Game of Oranges)
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition:
Jan Kruijsse, NL
The BTS Intercollegiate Trombone Choir Competition:
Royal College of Music, UK
The BTS Trombone Quartet Competition:
221 Bones, UK
The BTS Sackbut Competition:
Emily Saville, UK
2021
The BTS Composers' Competition:
Salvatore Sciarratta (Bright Call)
2020
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition:
Alan Adams, UK
The BTS Composers' Competition:
Andy Wareham, UK (Fanfare & Three Poems)
The BTS Intercollegiate Trombone Choir Competition:
Cancelled due to Coronavirus Pandemic
2019
BTS Quartet Competition:
Aeris Brass, London, UK (Ian Sankey, Martin Lee Thomson, Alistair Goodwin & Adam Crighton)
2018
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition:
Sam Taber, UK
2017
BTS Quartet Competition:
A Slide Too Far, Glasgow, UK (Chris Mansfield, Richard Leonard, Dan Eddison & Josiah Walters)
The Ian Bousfield Competition:
Tom Scaife, UK
Inter-Collegiate Competition:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, UK
2016
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition:
Kyle MacCorquodale, UK
The Don Lusher Competition:
Olli Martin, UK
2015
BTS Quartet Competition:
Budapest Trombone Quartet, Budapest, H (Attila Sztán, Tibor Ujj, Márk Tóth & Barnabás Brindás)
The Ian Bousfield Competition:
Michael Buchanan, UK
2014
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition:
Josh Cirtina, UK
The Don Lusher Competition:
Owen Dawson, UK
Inter-Collegiate Competition:
Guildhall School of Music, London, UK
2013
The Carol Jarvis Young Jazz Competition:
Jasper Rose, UK
2012
BTS Composer's Competition:
Unaccompanied Trombone: Mark Oliveiro, AUS (Tartarian Psalm II)
Concerto: Todd Goodman, USA (Concerto)
Bass Trombone & Piano: Iestyn Harding, Wales (Darkness Visible)
Trombone & Band: Dr Augusta Cecconi-Bates, USA (Paragraph)
Quartet (Senior Players): Kevin Fenner, AUS (Canons & Chorale)
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition:
James Buckle, UK
The Don Lusher Competition:
Kieran Stickle McLeod, UK
2010
The Don Lusher Competition:
Stephen Sykes, UK
2008
BTS Composer's Competition:
Junior Quartet: Robin Benton, UK (Dance Suite)
Senior Quartet: Philip Nell, UK (Three Variations for Four Trombones)
Trombone & Piano: Ryan Jesperson, USA (Fragments & Memories)
Unaccompanied Trombone: Dan Jenkin, UK (Fantasia)
The Don Lusher Competition: Robbie Harvey, UK
1996
BTS Composer's Competition: (Five prizes of Special Merit)
Marie Jean van Appeldorn, USA (Passages)
Anthony Hedges, UK (Sonatina)
Joe Cutler, UK (Shaman)
Lawrence Wolf, USA (Blues & Rondo)
Simon Lesley, UK (Three Sketches in the Form of a Sonata)