Tag: Glenfiddich Piping championship

The Balvenie Medal nomination process for 2024 

The Balvenie Medal nomination process for 2024 

The William Grant Foundation and The National Piping Centre invite nominations for the Balvenie Medal for 2024. The Balvenie Medal for services to piping is awarded annually, subject to a suitable candidate being identified, and is presented at the Glenfiddich Piping Championships, which take place at Blair Castle in Perthshire, […]

The glittering young piping career of Callum Beaumont

The glittering young piping career of Callum Beaumont

Callum Beaumont reached the pinnacle of piping with his overall win of the Glenfiddich Championship 2023 on Saturday, and the win fulfils a prediction given to him after his first Gold Medal win in 2011. The article below is from Piping Today in 2011 where Callum talks about very successful […]

Official photos and details from 50th Glenfiddich Championship

Official photos and details from 50th Glenfiddich Championship

The overall winner of the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2023 has been named as Callum Beaumont, as the event celebrates five decades of sensational piping. The prestigious Championship, which was first held in 1974, was founded by Sandy Grant Gordon of William Grant and Sons, and Seumas MacNeill who was […]

Early years of the Glenfiddich: Grant’s  Championship 1976

Early years of the Glenfiddich: Grant’s Championship 1976

In the build up to the 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship on October 29 we take another look through Piping Times back issues to Seumas MacNeill’s report from the Grant’s Championship in 1976. Seumas gives the contest a big build up in anticipation of hearing world class performances, but a tinge […]

Left to right: Iain Morrison, the Duke of Atholl, John D. Burgess, Iain MacFadyen.

The early years of the Glenfiddich: Grant’s Championship 1975

With the 50th anniversary of the Glenfiddich Piping Championship approaching on October 28, we take a look through the Piping Times archives to a report titled Grant’s Championship, as the competition was originally known. Piping Times was edited by Seumas MacNeill at that time, and although the article below was […]

Catch up with new piping tunes and chat on YouTube

Catch up with new piping tunes and chat on YouTube

The National Piping Centre is constantly adding top quality new content to YouTube. Most recently there have been interviews with Katie Robertson (The Wheeled Piper), former member of The National Piping Center Board of Directors, Alan Forbes, and energetic pipes and whistles exponent Ali Levack. The most recent offering in […]