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The Melbourne School Bands/Strings Festival was a two week program where school bands mainly from metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, as well as country Victoria and interstate, gather to perform, listen and participate in tutorials. The Festival has an education focus. All ensembles receive either a Gold, Silver, Bronze, Merit or Participation shield. The Melbourne School Band festival is the brain child of Barry Croll and Douglas Heywood who created the idea and event under the Music Junction Blackburn Banner in 1989 to support the ongoing development of music education in schools. The festival was produced and sponsored by Billy Hyde Music Foundation, until their parent company Billy Hyde went into liquidation in 2012. In 2008, the Festival's 20th anniversary, over 300 concert bands, jazz ensembles and string ensembles performed at the Robert Blackwood Concert Hall and School of Music Auditorium, Monash University. Since the inception of the festival in 1989 the number of students electing to learn an instrument through their school music program has increased substantially. The festival is now one of Australia's most prestigious musical events for school musicians. The festival is designed to support and develop instrumental music education. Not only do students have the opportunity to perform at Australia's finest venues (acoustic wise), but they receive adjudication from an outstanding panel of adjudicators. The festival runs for two weeks until the Festival Finale on the last Saturday of August. The Finale showcases the most outstanding ensembles from the Festival and features the distribution of the awards. In late 2012, Allans Billy Hyde music stores went into liquidation and the Billy Hyde Foundation now ceases to exist. While select Allans Billy Hyde stores live on through a new owner the Melbourne School Bands Festival's fate is unknown.

1997: Mr. Gil Askey, USA
1998: Mr. Jeff Jervis, USA
1999: Mr. Doug Beach, Elmhurst College, Illinois, USA
2000: Mr. Daryl McKenzie, Australia
2001: Mr. Reg Walsh, Australia
2002: Mr. Patrick Crichton, WAAPA, Australia
2003: Mr. J Richard Dunscombe, Composer, USA
2004: Mr. Monte H Mumford, Australia
2005: Mr. Steve Newcomb, Australia
2006: Mr. Dean Sorenson, University of Minnesota, USA
2007: Mr. Victor Lopez, USA
2008: Mr. Brad Millard, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

2000: Mr. Michael Loughlin, Australia
2001: Mr. Willem van der Vis, Australia
2002: Ms. Andrea Keeble, Australia
2003: Mr. Peter Bandy, Australia
2004: Ms. Christine Belshaw, Australia
2005: Mr. Mark Drummond, Australia
2006: Ms. Kim Waldock, Australia
2007: Ms. Loreta Fin, Australia
2008: Mr. Malcolm Yuen, Australia