Previous Competition Winners
2024
The BTS Composers' Competition: Ian Schwalbe (Through The Concrete Jungle)
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition: Joseph Smales
The BTS Intercollegiate Trombone Choir Competition: Royal College of Music
The BTS Community Trombone Choir Competition: South Coast Trombone Ensemble
The BTS Trombone Quartet Competition: The Outsliders
(Robyn Anderson, Pau Hernández Santamaria, Meggie Murphy and José Teixeira)
The BTS Sackbut Competition: Claire-Ombeline Muhlmeyer
The BTS Alto Trombone Competition: Jamie Reid
2023
The BTS Composers' Competition: Ian Schwalbe (Go Where You Please)
2022
The BTS Composers' Competition: Alberto Maniaci (Game of Oranges)
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition: Jan Kruijsse
The BTS Intercollegiate Trombone Choir Competition: Royal College of Music
The BTS Trombone Quartet Competition: 221 Bones
The BTS Sackbut Competition: Emily Saville
2021
The BTS Composers' Competition: Salvatore Sciarratta (Bright Call)
2020
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition: Alan Adams
The BTS Composers' Competition: Andy Wareham (Fanfare & Three Poems)
The BTS Intercollegiate Trombone Choir Competition: Cancelled due to Coronavirus Pandemic
2019
BTS Quartet Competition: Aeris Brass, London
(Ian Sankey, Martin Lee Thomson, Alistair Goodwin & Adam Crighton)
2018
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition: Sam Taber
2017
BTS Quartet Competition: A Slide Too Far, Glasgow
(Chris Mansfield, Richard Leonard, Dan Eddison & Josiah Walters)
The Ian Bousfield Competition: Tom Scaife
Inter-Collegiate Competition: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
2016
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition: Kyle MacCorquodale
The Don Lusher Competition: Olli Martin
2015
BTS Quartet Competition: Budapest Trombone Quartet, Budapest
(Attila Sztán, Tibor Ujj, Márk Tóth & Barnabás Brindás)
The Ian Bousfield Competition: Michael Buchanan
2014
The Bob Hughes Bass Trombone Competition: Josh Cirtina
The Don Lusher Competition: Owen Dawson
Inter-Collegiate Competition: Guildhall School of Music, London
2013
The Carol Jarvis Young Jazz Competition: Jasper Rose
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
The Don Lusher Competition: Kieran Stickle McLeod
2010
The Don Lusher Competition: Stephen Sykes
2008
The Don Lusher Competition: Robbie Harvey