The Association of Brass Band Adjudicators (AoBBA) is pleased to announce a new cohort of trainee adjudicators. The trainee’s will commence their two-year training programme in September and will be involved in live adjudications in conjunction with the official AoBBA adjudicators. The new trainees are Stephanie Binns, Darren Hawken, Alan Hobbins, and Nicholas Sanders who […]
It is with great sadness that the Association of Brass Band Adjudicators (AoBBA) learns of the passing of our Honorary Member Alan Lawton MBE. Alan was a member of AoBBA for many years and has served with distinction until retiring from adjudicating in 2014. Alan will be remembered not only as an exceptional cornet player […]
The Association of Brass Band Adjudicators (AoBBA) is to increase trainee places from six to ten from September 2021. The scheme has been extraordinarily successful, and head of the trainee scheme, Martin Heartfield commented ““The adjudicator training scheme has been effectively embedded into our core activities and the Executive feels the time is right to […]
We are pleased to announce that our 2021 Adjudicator Member Directory is available to download as a pdf file on our website. The member directory is a useful addition to our more extensive website and includes a complete list of our current adjudicators for use by contest promoters. For further information please go to ‘Our […]
Re: Wednesday 28th April 2021, 7.30pm Brass Bands Wales (BBW) and the Association of Brass Band Adjudicators (AoBBA) are delighted to announce, ‘An evening of insight into the work of an adjudicator’. BBW are hosting an evening with AoBBA secretary, Nicholas Garman and Head of AoBBA’s Trainee Adjudicator Programme, Martin Heartfield who between them will […]
The Association of Brass Band Adjudicators (AoBBA) announce the appointment of Sheona Wade as Vice-Chair of the association. As an international tenor horn artiste of repute and with an increasing portfolio of adjudications, the executive committee were unanimous in appointing Sheona to the position. Mark Wilkinson (Chair) commented “Sheona has been a dedicated member of […]