The CLASP Grade 1 World Amateur Solo Piping Competition took place at St Aloysius Convent Chapel on August 11 as part of Piping Live! 2022. The competition was judged by Willie Morrison. The results were as follows:

Grade 1 Overall Winner – Daniel Johnstone 

Grade 1 overall winner, Daniel Johnstone with Finlay MacDonald, and Con Houlihan who won the Grade 1 piobaireachd, and Robert Russell who won the Grade 1 MSR and Hornpipe & Jig.

Piobaireachd 

  1. Con Houlihan
  2. Daniel Johnstone 
  3. Ben Hall
  4. Iain Kirkwood
  5. Stephen Ross
  6. Sandy Greenwood

MSR

  1. Robert Russell
  2. Neil Nicholson
  3. Daniel Johnstone
  4. Marc Warnock
  5. Con Houlihan
  6. Ben Hall

Hornpipe & Jig

  1. Robert Russell
  2. Craig Turnbull
  3. Neil Nicholson
  4. Con Houlihan
  5. Daniel Johnstone
  6. Marc Warnock 

The next CLASP events to follow Piping Live! are at Chatsworth Country Fair, Saturday September 3; the CLASP Workshop Weekend on October 7 and 8 which is online and at The National Piping Centre; and The CLASP ‘Live Online’ on November 12, 2022. More details here.