The RSPBA Dundee, Perth and Angus Branch held a very well attended competition in the grounds of Dollar Academy today. The full results are as follows: GRADE 1 Drums: Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band GRADE 2 Drums: Buchan Peterson Pipe Band GRADE 3 Drums: Pitlochry & Blair […]
Emerging Composers is a fantastic professional development opportunity offering paid commissions for emerging composers creating exciting repertoire from new perspectives for The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. Now in our third year of the programme, Emerging Composers offers paid commissions to write for NYPBS – Scotland’s only concert pipe […]
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland is seeking to appoint seven trainees to support the delivery of their outreach programme, as well as their three National Bands this year. Each trainee will gain real world professional development opportunities throughout NYPBS 2023-24 year of activity. These are entry-level positions for […]
By Stuart Milne. The outdoor competition season in northern Europe kicked off in style on May 6-7 at the Peine Highland Gathering in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Saturday pipe band contest was the largest for years, drawing 18 bands from the usual mix of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. […]
Piping Live! will return for its 20th edition this summer with an eclectic calendar of events from Saturday 12th – Sunday 20th August 2023. The world’s biggest piping festival annually attracts over 30,000 attendees to Glasgow and this year the Piping Live! team hopes to bring in even more visitors, as it celebrates two decades as a cornerstone […]
In the last five days The National Piping Centre has added three videos to their Youtube Channel. Two of the videos are from the Glenfiddich Championship in 2022, and feature Jack Lee performing and Connor Sinclair being interviewed. The third video is an addition to the What’s In A Tune […]
The pipe band season returned to Scotland over the weekend of May 13 and 14 at Banchory, Dunbar and Gourock. The full results are as follows: Dunbar Pipe Band Championships, May 13, 2023 Grade 1 Grade 2 Drums: City of Edinburgh Grade 3 Drums: City of Newcastle Juvenile Novice Juvenile […]
By Stuart Milne. Piping Today #89, 2017. It is 2004, and in the hall of Inveraray Primary School in the heart of Argyll in the south west of Scotland, five youngsters are having a lesson in piping and drumming. Stuart Liddell, one of the world’s top solo pipers and then […]
A specially composed piping lament will be played for the first time on Saturday 20 May at the Black Hill south of Stonehaven. Piper Ian Dallas wrote the piece The Black Hill – 100 Years for the Stonehaven War Memorial Rededication ceremony. The event will honour 100 years since the […]
Harmony Writing Part Six. By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #90, 2018. Those of you following along with this mini-series on Harmony Writing may remember the project from the previous article, which involved developing a more involved harmony for the first part of John Walsh’s The Korgi (a reel in the […]
