DVCB Awards and Recognitions

Awards

Max Whittaker Memorial Award
2016 Lucy Rowlands
2017 Cody McNeill
2018 Cheyenne Paynter

Layton Hodgetts Community Winds Award
2016 Janette Good
2017 Hugh McShane
2018 Leith Clarke
2019 Jasmine Cayzer, Marisa Santalucia
2020 Nick Rushworth

Belle Pearson Memorial Award
1998 Nick Bennett
1999 Max Whittaker
2000 Lance McCallum
2001 Kirsty Rice
2002 Rachel Thomson
2003 June Williams
2004 Sandi Dishington
2005 Bruce Rule
2006 Amanda Connors
2007 Antony Cave
2008 Chris Rice
2009 Shan Cowley
2010 Adrian James
2011 Arthur Jones
2012 Lyall McDermott
2013 Susan Reppion-Brooke
2014 Sue MacLaurin
2015 Tim Gibbons
2016 Roger Manton
2017 Clare Rieper
2018 Andrew Castles
2019 Damian Jones
2020 Carolyn Rushworth

Derwent Valley Concert Band Service Award
2018 Jessica Taylor
2019 Jim Taylor

New Norfolk High School Music Award
1994 Metka Faletic
1995 Sam Semple
1996 Christian McCallum
1997 Sarah Mebbrey
1998 Christopher Rice
1999 No award given
2000 Shan Cowley
2001 Ashley Rhodes and Shan Cowley
2002 Ashleigh Clark
2003 Ashleigh and Jenae Clark
2004 Natalie Connor
2005 Sarah Blackwell
2006 Emily Rieper
2007 Emily Rieper
2008 Mitchell Lovell
2009 Caitlin White
2010 Acacia Fenton
2011 Charlie Stewart
2012 Jaidyn Daniels
2013 Charlie Stewart
2014 Derrick Rabe
2015 Ellie Hayton
2016 Mykaela Jones-Gittus
2017 Alesha Moles

Spring School Scholarships

2016
Ellie Griffin
Rhiannon Joyce

2017
Leith Clarke
Leah Cook

2018
Benjamin Raymond
Taylah Bernes
Jasmine Cayzer

2019
Amelia Cooper
Ben Santalucia
Jasper Gye
Nicholas Lord

Conductors and Presidents

Chief Conductors
1993 – 2009 Layton Hodgetts OAM
2009 – 2010 David Schmidt
2010 – present Lyall McDermott

Presidents
1993 – 1995 Belle Pearson
1995 Mike Woolley
1995 – 1997 Belle Pearson
1998 – 2004 Gerald Plunkett
2005 – 2006 Nick Bennett
2007 – 2009 Jim Taylor
2009 – 2010 Nick Bennett
2011 – 2016 Layton Hodgetts OAM
2017 – 2018 Antony Cave
2019 – 2021 Jessica Taylor
2021 – present Jim Taylor