Jury 2026 March / Marching Parade / Show
Supervisor Dieter Buschau, Germany
Hans-Dieter Buschau’s musical career started in a flute band that was converted into a marching band, where he played the flute and the trumpet. After having become conductor of the band it became very successful and became German Champions. Since then he successfully took part in various competitions with a number of bands as their conductor.
In 1987 he became an adjudicator for various organisations, e.g. the Lower Saxony Band Assocation NMV and Drumcorps Germany. He became a member of the WAMSB Judges Bureau in 2007. He has judged in numerous competitions and has been a clinician all over Germany, France, Denmark, Poland Spain, Canada, USA, Malaysia, Taiwan, Colombia and Brazil including jury assignments in 9 WAMSB world championships.
H.-D. Buschau is a retired public school teacher and he is Director of Music in the Lower Saxony Music Association, vice Director of Music in BDMV (German Band Federation) and member of the WAMSB Board of Directors.
Hans-Dieter Buschau begann seine musikalische Laufbahn als Mitglied eines Spielmannszuges, der in eine Marching Band umgestellt wurde, in der er Flöte und Trompete spielte. Nachdem er den Verein als musikalischer Leiter übernommen hatte, war dieser sehr erfolgreich und wurde Deutscher Meister. Seither hat er als musikalischer Leiter mit einer Anzahl von Gruppen erfolgreich an Wettbewerben teilgenommen.
1987 wurde er Juror für verschiedene Verbände, u.a. im Niedersächsischen Musikverband und für Drumcorps Germany. 2007 wurde er Juror der WAMSB. Er hatte Wertungs- und Dozenteneinsätze in ganz Deutschland, Frankreich, Dänemark, Polen, Spanien, Kanada, den USA, Taiwan, Malaysia, Kolumbien und Brasilien, darunter als Juror bei 9 WAMSB Weltmeisterschaften.
H.-D. Buschau pensionierter Lehrer an einem Gymnasium. Er ist einer der Landesmusikdirektoren im Niedersächsischen Musikverband, stellv. Bundesmusikdirektor Spielleutemusik in der BDMV und Mitglied des WAMSB Board of Directors.
Tang Chia Hoe, Malysia
Kasia Czyzak, Polen
She has been involved with the brass band and majorette community for over twenty years. She began her musical journey by learning to play the piano. She is a clarinettist with the OSP Brass Band in Osieczna. She has been a long-standing drum major and musician with the Leszno Town Brass Band. Coach of the Leszno Town Brass Band Majorettes, winners of national and international championships.
Judge at majorette competitions and championships, and judge for the Polish Wind Orchestra Association. Pioneer of classical majorette competition forms (baton, pom-pom and scepter). Specialist in parade drill. Collaborates with professional and amateur orchestras. Co-founder of a Polish-German fanfare orchestra project. Trainer. Since 2025, he has been leading baton exercises as part of the Master’s degree programme ‘Artistic Education in the Field of Musical Arts – specialisation: conducting brass bands, bandmaster-tambourmajor’, run by the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts at Adam Mickiewicz University.
A lawyer specialising in heritage conservation. A passionate compère and community activist.
Mathias Wehr, Germany
Elmar Riegel, Canada
Jury 2026 Konzert
Alfons Aigmüller, Austria
Pedagog. Academy with teacher training
Studied music at the Bruckner Conservatory with a degree in singing and organ
40 years as bandmaster, including 22 years as district bandmaster of the Schärding district.
41 years – since 1966 in uninterrupted succession – as an adjudicator at concert and marching music competitions (mostly as chairman of the jury).
Since 1980 member of the OÖBV regional management.
Werner Hoffmann, Germany
Werner Hoffmann learned the clarinet as a child and later turned to the flute. He received his training with Kurt Cromm (Saarbrücken University of Music). As a flautist in the Rhineland-Palatinate Police Music Corps, he began training as a conductor with Rudolph Riedel (Peter Cornelius Conservatory) and attended lectures with Sergio Celebidage at the University of Mainz. From 1985 until the dissolution of the orchestra, Werner Hoffmann was corps leader of the Düsseldorf Police Music Corps.
Respected as a profound expert on the subject, he taught for many years at the Landesmusikakademie NRW and was also a frequent guest at the Bundemusikakademie. Since 1990, he has held the position of state conductor/deputy conductor at the Volksmusikbund NRW and is a popular adjudicator throughout Germany
Martin Meier, Switzerland
Martin Meier was born 1958 in Gränichen, a small village in Switzerland. After his apprenticeship as a train traffic controller at SBB, he studied Human Resources and Management at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Zürich. His basic training as a conductor started 1990-1993. From 1994 to 1997 he studied in part-time wind orchestra direction at the Zurich University of Music. Since 1991 he is an active conductor of wind orchestras of various strengths and formations, primarily in the Eastern part of Switzerland. In the army he conducted various military orchestras. Trained as a coach for conductors , he attended various master classes. In June 2018 he successfully completed his training as an international juror at the Federal Academy of Music in Trossingen (Germany). He is regularly invited as a juror in Switzerland and in other countries.
From 2005 to 2020 he was member of the board of the Appenzell Music Association (ABV), vice-president of the education and training department, presiding the music commission. The ABV appointed him as honorary member in 2020. Since 2010 he is involved as a juror and speaker on leadership issues and personality development for conductors.
Professionally, he worked over 35 years as a Human Resources Manager in various companies before he decided to retire in June 2023. Music always stays a very important part in his everyday-life. He still plays in various orchestras as guest on the French horn.
Privately, he lives in Lutzenberg, canton Appenzell, together with his wife. Besides music, his hobbies are working in the care team (crisis intervention), travelling, visiting concerts, cooking, good wines and trips as a temporary driver at Postauto AG.
Further information at: www.meiermartin.ch