2025 Test Pieces
All competing bands will be required to play the designated test piece for their grade. The pieces have been chosen carefully to reflect an appropriate National standard.
2025 Brass Band
| Grade | Piece | Composer / Arranger | Watch |
| Open A Grade | The Legend of King Arthur | Pete Meechan | YouTube |
| Open B Grade | Buckley's Change | Jared McCunnie | YouTube |
| Open C Grade | Carnival | Helen Perkin | YouTube |
| Open D Grade | I, Dadaelus | Andrea Price |
2025 Open Concert Band
Please note concert band test pieces are shorter in 2025 in line with the changes made in 2022.
Bands will be required to play a slow work, a march from the NBCA Prescribed March List or approved by the WABA Music Board and an own choice program which may include several shorter works, or one longer work.
| Grade | Piece | Composer /Arranger | Watch |
| Open A Grade | The Creation of Faith | Jodie Blackshaw | SoundCloud |
| Open B Grade | Infinite Hope | Brian Balmages | YouTube |
| Open C Grade | Tarantella | Carol Brittin Chambers | YouTube |
| Open D Grade | Overture Spiritoso | Ralph Hultgren | Brolga |