The Events 2012 page has the address & directions as well as registration information.  We look forward to seeing you!

Results:

Chanter:

1. Thomas Boston

Grade 5 Piping, 4/4 March:

1. Kyle Gaul
2. Katrina Jones

Adult Piping, 6/8 March:

1. Ken Robinson

Grade 4 Piping, 6/8 March:

1. Peter North
2. Karl Stahlfeld
3. Diego Alvarez
4. Stewart Nevling

Grade 4 Piping, Strathspey & Reel:

1. Karl Stahlfeld
2. Peter North
3. Diego Alvarez
4. Stewart Nevling

Grade 2 Piping, Jig:

1. Matt Rucker

Grade 2 Piping, March, Stratshpey & Reel:

1. Matt Rucker

Grade 1 Piping, 6/8 March:

1. Alexander Schiele
2. Aaron Stone

Grade 1 Piping, Hornpipe & Jig

1. Alexander Schiele
2. Aaron Stone

Drum Pad, Beginner:

1. Lauren Gaul

Grade 5 Snare, 4/4/ March:

1. Alyssa VanCamp

Grade 4 Snare, 6/8 March:

1. Robert Graham Jr.

Grade 2 Snare, Hornpipe & Jig:

1. Fiona Senyk
2. Bryce Kreger

Grade 1 Snare, Hornpipe & Jig:

1. Amber Stone

Tenor Drumming, 2/4 March

1. Alexis Hagen

Bass Drumming, Hornpipe & Jig

1. Morgan Schiele

Aggregate Placings for 2011 season below.  Note, only competitors who competed at 3 of 4 dates were eligible for aggregate ranking and awards.

Grade 5 Piping

1. Kyle Gaul
2. Katrina Jones
3. Stewart MacDonald

Adult Piping

1. Ken Robinson

Grade 4 Piping

1. Diego Alvarez
2. Peter North
3. Stewart Nevling

Grade 3 Piping

1. Elliot Thomson

Grade 1 Piping

1. Alexander Schiele
2. Aaron Stone

Drum Pad – Beginner

1. Lauren Gaul

Grade 5 Side Drumming

1. Alyssa VanCamp

Grade 4 Side Drumming

1. Robert Graham Jr

Grade 2 Side Drumming

1.  Bryce Kreger
2. Fiona Senyk

Grade 1 Side Drumming

1. Amber Stone

Tenor Drumming

1. Alexis Hagen

Bass Drumming

1. Morgan Schiele

A drawing was held among all eligible participants (10 total) who chose to be added to the scholarship drawing, and had competed at 3 of the 4 events this season. 

Congratulations Alexis Hagen, $400.00 WPA Scholarship award for Piping or Drumming school of your choice this season. 

Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee from Surrey, BC has been piping for most of his 23 years, having started at the age of 5. He was born into a family of pipers, with his father and uncle being the founders and leaders of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band.

Andrew has won many piping prizes, including the BC Pipers’ Association Grand Aggregates in grade 3 and twice in grade 1. Andrew moved up to professional in 2004 and won a number of prizes in the very competitive B.C. piping scene. He won the United States Silver Medal competitions in Kansas City in 2007. In 2010, Andrew won the United States Gold Medal for piobaireachd in Kansas City.

As well as his North American success, Andrew has been a regular prizewinner at events in Scotland, including 2nd prize in the B Strathspey Reel at Oban in 2010.

Andrew was a member of the Robert Malcolm Memorial juvenile pipe band for several years, finishing off as pipe major of the band. He won three World Juvenile Championships with RMM, and he has won the World Championship with the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band.

David Bowman

David Bowman at WPA, 2009

David is a member of the six-time World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band based in Burnaby, British Columbia. Joining in the fall of 2007, David has captured two World Pipe Band Championships and two World Drum Corps Championships with the band in 2008 and 2009.

Before joining SFU, he spent five seasons with the Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band. He began to learn pipe band drumming at the age of 6 under the instruction of his father, Lee Bowman, and later from John Fisher, a world-renowned percussionist and technician.

Along with his band accomplishments, David has begun to establish himself as a successful professional soloist throughout North America and abroad. David competed at the 2007 and 2009 World Solo Drumming Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a regular prize winner at the MHAF Gold Medal Drumming event in Kansas City, placing 4th in 2010. David was awarded the BC Piper’s Association Grand Aggregate for Professional Drumming for both the 2009 and 2010 seasons, and looks forward to another successful solo season in 2011. He sits as an ‘A’ level drumming adjudicator on both the PPBAM and BC Piper’s Association panels.

Cameron Reid

Originally from Vancouver Island, Cameron grew up taking lessons from Robbie Collins and J. Reid Maxwell. He eventually joined the Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band and went on to win World Pipe Band Championship titles at both the Juvenile, and Grade 2 levels. Cameron has also enjoyed success in Solo competition. In 2004, he placed 3rd in the Juvenile Section at the World Solo Drumming Championships.

Cameron is a current member of the Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver, BC. He is also a qualified drumming adjudicator with the BC Pipers Association, and an active instructor in Vancouver.

Patrick Downing

Patrick has been playing the pipes since the age of ten. Upon graduating high school, Patrick moved to Washington and played with SFU for the 2008 and 2009 seasons, where they won the worlds consecutively. Patrick competes at the professional level and is the proud instructor of the Bellingham Fire Pipes and Drums, formed in 2009. Patrick is a junior at Western Washington University where he studies Industrial Design. If the weather is right, you can find Patrick skiing Mount Baker!

• Feb 19th
• March 19
• April 16
• May 14

Once the dates and times are confirmed, we’ll post a 2011 registration form.

Congratulations to Amber Stone of Auburn for winning 2nd overall in the US Junior Snare Drumming Championships at the Balmoral Classic.

More details on the results are available from the Bob Dunsire Forums and Pipes|Drums.

Learn from many of the masters of piping, drumming and fiddling at the 2011 Celtic Arts Foundation Winter School in Seabeck, WA.

Applications and more information available here>>

Fiddlers and Smallpipe/Border Pipes sessions:  January 30 – February 3rd

Bagpipe & Drumming session: February 5 – 9th

Piping Instructors:

• Brian Donaldson, Cardenden, Fife, Scotland
• Bruce Gandy, Hallifax, Nova Scotia
• Alasdair Gillies, Pittsburg (via Ulapool, Scotland)
• Murray Henderson, Scotland (via New Zealand)
• Stuart Liddell, Inveraray, Scotland
• Roddy MacLeod, MBE, Glasgow, Scotland 
• Fred Morrison, Bishopton, Scotland (and Gernish, South Uist)

Border/Smallpipe Instructors (dedicated smallpipe session  January 30 – February 3rd)

• Fred Morrison, Bishopton, Scotland (and Gernish, South Uist)
• Dr. Gary West, Pitlochry in Perthshire, University of Edinburgh Celtic studies department chair

Drumming Instructors:
 

•  Michael Cole, Bass Drum, Chicago, IL
• Tyler Fry, Tenor Drum, Ontario, Canada
• John Scullion, Side Drum, Omagh County, Northern Ireland
• Blair Brown, Side Drum, Ontario, Canada
• Gordon Brown, Side Drum, West Lothian, Scotland 

Fiddle Instructors:

• Andrea Beaton
• Troy MacGillivray
• Deirdre Morrision

150 tunes by pipers from the Northwest, both past and present. Contributions are included from D.C. Mather, Donald Sutherland, John Sutherland, Kenneth MacDonald, Kevin Auld, David Lanigan, Barry Shears, Ian Hardie, Dave Richardson, Anna Murray, and Tim McCarthy.

136 pages, 10 1/2 x 8 paperback and includes history of piping in the Pacific Northwest and photographs of the Seattle Pipe Band in its earliest days as well as some of the classic old pipers whose influence is still felt in our area.

Click the image for more information on the book.  $25 plus $4 shipping and handling through John.