Grade 5 Piping – 6/8 March

1. Stewart MacDonald – Northwest Junior Pipe Band
2. Liam Cunningham - Northwest Junior Pipe Band
3. Connor Tappa - Northwest Junior Pipe Band

Adult Piping – 2/4 March

1. Gary Taylor
2. Cleda Thompson – Kenmore & District Pipe Band
3. Kenneth Robinson

Adult Piping – Slow Air

1. Gary Taylor
2. Cleda Thompson – Kenmore & District Pipe Band
3. Kenneth Robinson

Grade 4 Piping Piobaireachd Ground & 1st Variation

1. Katrina Jones – Northwest Junior Pipe Band
2. Diane Axworthy
3. Karl Stahlfeld - Northwest Junior Pipe Band

Grade 4 Piping 6/8 March

1. Katrina Jones – Northwest Junior Pipe Band
2. Kyle Gaul – Northwest Junior Pipe Band
3. Karl Stahlfeld – Northwest Junior Pipe Band
4. Diane Axworthy

Grade 3 Piping 6/8 March

1. Alexa Boss

Grade 3 Piping Jig

1. Alexa Boss

Grade 1 Piping 2/4 March

1. Aaron Stone – Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band
2. Alexander Schiele - Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band

Grade 1 Piping 6/8 March

1. Alexander Schiele - Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band
2. Aaron Stone - Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band

Grade 4 Drumming 6/8 March

1. Lauren Gaul – Northwest Junior Pipe Band

Grade 1 Drumming March Strathspey & Reel

1. Amber Stone - Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band
2. Bryce Kreger - Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band

Grade 2 Tenor Drumming – 2/4 March

1. Megan McCrea

Grade 1 Tenor Drumming – 2/4 March

1. Alexis Hagen - Northwest Junior Pipe Band

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.

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Our piping adjudicator is a well known face at WPA competitions, encouraging his students and appreciating the music, always willing to help out. Colin MacRae Sr has a long history of talent with piping and pipe bands in the Seattle area, as does his family and we greatly appreaciate his support adjudicating Saturday.  

Colin MacRae Sr. is the son of Alexander MacRae, founder of the Washington Scottish and the Seattle Pipe Bands.  He started taking piping lessons in 1939 from Alistair MacMillan of Tacoma in the old style of Piobaireachd.  Since then has been strongly involved in the Northwest Scottish Society.  Colin followed in his father and brother’s footsteps and was the pipe major of the Washington Scottish Pipe Band from 1967 to 1969.  He has taught pipers in the area for many years and is known for teaching the musical traditions in his piping. He also passed down the tradition of piping and drumming to his children and grandchildren.  His son, Colin MacRae, carried on the family tradition as the PM of the WaScots from 1978 to 2000. 

Grade 5 Piping – 2/4 March - 5 Competitors

1. Kyle Gaul
2. Janaki Nagarajan
3. Katrina Jones
4. Stuart MacDonald
5. Collin Dazey

Adult Piping – 2/4 March - 3 Competitors

1. Ken Robinson
2. Cleda Thompson

Adult Piping – Slow Air – 3 Competitors

1. Cleda Thompson
2. Gary Taylor
3. Ken Robinson

Grade 4 Piping – 6/8 March - 6 competitors

1. Diego Alvarez
2. Karl Stahlfeld
3. Jonathan Robertson
4. Peter North
5. Stuart Nevling
6. Bruce Poliak

Grade 4 Piping – 2/4 March - 6 competitors

1. Diego Alvarez
2. Karl Stahlfeld
3. Peter North
4. Stuart Nevling
5. Bruce Poliak
6. Jonathan Robertson

Grade 3 Piping – Strathspey & Reel – 4 competitors

1. Elliot Thomson
2. Paul Vegors
3. Marcus DeVight
4. Malcolm Roux

Grade 3 Piping – Jig - 4 competitors

1. Marcus DeVight
2. Elliot Thomson
3. Malcolm Roux

Grade 2 Piping – 6/8 March- 1 Competitor

1. Matt Rucker

Grade 2 Piping – 2/4 March – 1 Competitor

1. Matt Rucker

Grade 1 Piping – Piobaireachd – 2 Competitors

1. Alexander Schiele
2. Aaron Stone

Beginning Drumming – Pad – 3/4 March – 1 Competitor

1. Lauren Gaul

Grade 5 Drumming – 3/4 March - 1 Competitor

1. Alyssa VanCamp

Grade 4 Drumming – 2/4 March – 2 Competitors

1. Robert Graham Jr
2. Cheyenne Camp

Grade 2 Drumming – March, Stratshpey & Reel - 2 Competitors

1. Bryce Kreger
2. Fiona Senyk

Grade 1 Drumming – March, Strathspey & Reel – 1 Competitor

1. Amber Stone

Tenor Drumming – 6/8 March - 2 Competitors

1. Alexis Hagen
2. Marissa Lytle

Bass Drumming – March, Strathspey & Reel – 1 Competitor

1. Morgan Schiele

Tenor Drumming, Grade 1 – played for comments

• Colleen Salmi

Hal Senyk was our adjudicator for bagpiping. Hal’s contributions to the local and international piping scenes are widely recognized.  He was recently awarded a life membership in the British Columbia Pipers’ Association in recognition of his continuing contributions.   There’s a lifetime more stories in Hal’s background and contributions than was published in this recommended article in Pipes|Drums>>, but most recently he’s been building the next generation of pipers and drummers with White Spot Pipe Band and was one of the driving forces between the exciting new cooperation with Washington based Northwest Junior Pipe Band in forming the Northwest/White Spot United Pipe Band, a unique opportunity for youth from both bands to play at the next level together this summer and compete in Juvenile at the World Pipe Band Championships. 

Chanter: 6/8 March

1. Collin Dazey

Grade 5 Piping – Slow Air

1. Kyle Gaul
2. Janaki Nogaragan
3. Christopher Barnard
4. Russell Prewitt
5. Katrina Jones
6. Stewart MacDonald

Adult Piping – Slow Air

1. Ken Robinson
2. Cleda Thompson
3. David Barber

Adult Piping – 6/8 March

1. Ken Robinson
2. Cleda Thompson
3. David Barber

Grade 4 Piping – 2/4 March

1. Jonathan Robertson
2. Diego Alvarez
3. Peter North

Grade 4 Piping – Strathspey & Reel

1. Jonathan Robertson
2. Peter North
3. Diego Alvarez

Grade 3 Piping – 2/4 March

1. Marcus DeVight
2. Elliot Thomson
3. Paul Vegors

Grade 3 Piping – 6/8 March

1. Elliot Thomson
2. Paul Vegors
3. Marcus DeVight

Grade 2 Piping – Piobaireachd

1. Liam Hilder

Grade 1 Piping – March, Strathspey & Reel

1. Alexander Schiele
2. Aaron Stone

Grade 1 Piping – Jig

1. Alexander Schiele
2. Aaron Stone

Beginning Snare (Drum Pad) – 6/8 March

1. Allyssa Van Camp
2. Lauren Gaul

Grade 4 Snare – 4/4 March

1. Robert Graham, Jr

Grade 2 Side Drumming – 2/4 March

1. Bryce Kreger
2. Fiona Senyk

Grade 1 Side Drumming – Hornpipe & Jig

1. Amber Stone

Bass Drumming – Strathspey & Reel

1. Morgan Schiele

Chanter, Slow Air

1. Colin Dazey

Grade 5 Piping, 6/8 March

1. Kyle Gaul
2. Katrina Jones
3. Russell Prewitt
4. Christopher Barnard
5. Stewart MacDonald

Grade 4 Piping, Piobaireachd Ground & 1st Variation

1. Stuart Nevling
2. Bruce Poliak

Grade 4 Piping, 6/8 March

1. Stewart Nevling
2. Bruce Poliak

Adult Piping, Slow Air

1. Gary Taylor
2. Ken Robinson

Adult Piping, 2/4 March

1. Ken Robinson

Grade 3 Piping, Piobaireachd

1. Elliot Thomson
2. Saul Goodwin

Grade 1 Piping, 2/4 March

1. Aaron Stone
2. Alexander Schiele

Grade 1 Piping, 6/8 March

1. Alexander Schiele
2. Aaron Stone

Beginner Drumming (drum pad) 2/4 March

1. Lauren Gaul

Grade 4 Drumming, 6/8 March

1. Cheyenne Camp
2. Robert Graham, Jr

Grade 2 Drumming, Hornpipe & Jig

1. Bryce Kreger
2. Fiona Senyk

Grade 1 Drumming, March, Strathspey & Reel

1. Amber Stone

Tenor Drumming, 6/8 March

1. Marissa Lytle
2. Alexis Hagen

Bass Drumming, 2/4 March

1. Morgan Schiele

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!