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R. G. Hardie & Co. Masters Solo Piping Competition

August 10th

Pipe Major of Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, Alan Bevan, retained the R. G. Hardie & Co. Masters Solo Piping Competition on Monday, August 11 at Piping Live! 2025, winning the piobaireachd event. The win gives Alan a place in the Glenfiddich Piping Championship in October of this year.

Bruce Gandy was the winner of the MSR, and was the second recipient of the Willie Beveridge Memorial Trophy for the MSR event. The full results were:

Piobaireachd

  1. Alan Bevan – Lament for Colin Roy MacKenzie
  2. Nick Hudson – Craigellachie
  3. Callum Beaumont – Mrs. MacLeod of Tallisker’s Salute
  4. Finlay Johnston – Donald Gruamach’s March
  5. Willie McCallum – The Edinburgh Piobaireachd
    Judges: Bill Wotherspoon, Bruce Hitchings and Ian Duncan.

•Bruce Gandy was the winner of the MSR event at the R. G. Hardie & Co. Masters 2025. Pictured receiving the Willie Beveridge Memorial Trophy from Willie’s daughter Anne. Photo: John Slavin

MSR

  1. Bruce Gandy – Hugh Kennedy, Ewe Wi the Crookit Horn, Stornoway Castle.
  2. Roddy MacLeod – Lord Alexander Kennedy, The Shepherd’s Crook, The Smith of Chilliechassie
  3. Connor Sinclair – David Ross of Rosehall, Lady Louden, Broadford Bay
  4. Craig Sutherland – Dugald McColl’s Farewell to France, Atholl Cummers, Sandy Cameron
  5. Jack Lee – South Hall, Islay Ball, Mrs. MacPherson of Inveran
    Judges: Jimmy Banks, Niall Matheson, Willie Morrison

• Bruce Gandy and Alan Bevan were the prize winners at the R.G. Hardie & Co. Masters 2025. Photo: John Slavin

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  • The National Piping Centre