Variety is the key to the classes in The Guild - and we hope to reflect that in the selection of performances brought to you each day in our main report - Today at The Guild.
The programme on Monday 23 April featured the following (please note that the list below is not necessarily the order in which the pieces are played in the programme):
MANX VOICES - Winners of the Ladies Choir Class
JOSHUA MOONEY - Winner of the Boys Treble Solo (Years 1 to 4) accompanied by Patricia Cullen
ANNA TAMAROVA - Winner of the Girls Solo (Years 1 and 2) accompanied by Graham Kirkland
MANX CONCERT BRASS - “Tom and Jerry’ - part of their winning performance in the Concert Class for Brass Bands
RUSHEN SILVER BAND - “I Wanna Be Like You” from Jungle Book - part of their performance in the Concert Class for Brass Bands and featuring WILLIAM KING on Bass Trombone, who won the additional prize for Best Soloist
RAMSEY TOWN BAND - winners of the Best Hymn Tune (Aberystwyth)
RUSHEN SILVER BAND - winners of the Best March (Star Lake)
GARETH MOORE - Winner of the Advanced Organ class - playing “Ceremonial March” by Herbert Sumsion, on the organ in St Thomas’s Church, Douglas
SONNY HAOCHEN LI - Winner of the Piano Solo class - Grades 1 and 2