All-Japan Band Competition (全日本吹奏楽コンクール Zen Nihon Suisōgaku Konkūru) is a large symphonic band contest in Japan, organised by the All-Japan Band Association and the Asahi Shimbun.
The contest is divided into four groups: junior high school, high
school, college and the workplace. Each symphonic band plays 2 songs, a
set piece song and an own-choice song.[1][2] There are three types of awards given: Gold, Silver, Bronze.
This competition has largely promoted the concert band idiom (called buraban in Japanese), but in recent years AJBA has also included separate entries for marching band and smaller chamber music ensembles within its national competition.
The All Japan Band Association annual contest appears to be the world's
largest music competition in terms of the number of active contestants,[1] with approximately 800,000 competing musicians in more than 14,000 bands.[2] The other largest music competitions in the world are the Eurovision and American Idol competitions in the field of pop music singing.
It is an
extremely competitive three-tiered contest, with local, regional, and
national levels of competition.
Buraban is a popular Japanese slang term for wind ensemble or concert band. Historically, the term is derived from the English "brass band", which is pronounced "burasubando" in Japanese. This was later shortened (using the Japanese method of abbreviation) to become simply "buraban." The term is often used to refer to school bands, which are a very popular extracurricular activity among junior high school and high school girls.
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