MUSICIAN Iwan Williams is planning a champion performance in Norway this weekend when he takes part in the European Brass Band Championships.
Iwan from Walkden, who has a string of top titles, is the solo flugel horn player with the Yorkshire Building Society Brass Band which is hoping to successfully defend its title as European champions for the fifth successive year at the championship at Grieghdllen in Bergen, Norway, today and tomorrow.
The 29-year-old and his fellow musicians will take on 10 rival bands from across Europe. He said: "The European Championships are the highlight of the brass band musical calendar."
Iwan who was the North Wales Solo Champion and the Welsh Solo Champion by the age of 16, said: "It would be a great achievement to win the accolade again which would reflect all the hard work put in by everyone."
He has been with the Yorkshire band since 1993 and is a music teacher at The Swinton High School.
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