Dr David Thornton and Ian Raisbeck were presented with their Iles and Mortimer Medals on stage at the National Final. <\/p>\n
Two delighted award winners at the recent Royal Albert Hall National Championship were Dr David Thornton and Ian Raisbeck.<\/p>\n
They were the respective 2026 recipients of the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Iles and Mortimer Medals, presented to them on stage by its current Master, Alun Hughes.<\/p>\n
lles Medal<\/p>\n
Dr David Thornton joined a prestigious lineage of former Iles Medal recipients that includes the likes of Fred Mortimer, Eric Ball, Geoffrey Brand, Elgar Howarth and Bramwell Tovey. <\/p>\n
His citation described his outstanding advocacy, commitment and excellence to brass banding in many different guises \u2014 as a performer, conductor, commissioner, administrator and curator. <\/p>\n
In accepting the award, he stated that it was an “honour” to now be referenced against “names that I have such reverence for”. He added that he “was fortunate that something I’m so passionate about as formed such a formative aspect of my life.”<\/p>\n
Mortimer Medal<\/p>\n
The Mortimer Medal recipient Ian Raisbeck also follows in a line of outstanding musicians who have inspired countless young people to start their musical journey in the brass band world.<\/p>\n
Former awardees of the honour which was first presented in 1995, include Nigel Boddice, Philip McCann, Helen Minshall, Paul Fisher and Louise Renshaw. <\/p>\n
For over 25 years he has been associated with Lions Youth Band as a player, composer, tutor, deputy conductor and Musical Director. For many years he also balanced his work as a brass instructor and classroom teacher by being valued member of Foden’s Band and the manager of the Foden’s Youth Band.<\/p>\n
On receiving the award he stated: “When I was nominated, I was truly humbled. To be included alongside the illustrious names of previous recipients is a huge honour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr David Thornton and Ian Raisbeck were presented with their Iles and Mortimer Medals on stage at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[56603,56604,96,128,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-4barsrest","tag-brass-band","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}