Pittsburgh's Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming presents its Summer Concert, a fundraiser for the Ligonier Highland Games, featuring the school's 2020 guest piping instructors, Robert Mathieson and Terry Tully. Also performing will be drumming instructor Gordon Bell, Pittsburgh Celtic ensemble Road to the Isles, Scottish and Irish dancers, Balmoral Pipes & Drums, the school's director George Balderose, piping instructor Richmond Johnston, and students from Balmoral's summer program. Our emcee for the evening will be Arthur McAra.
Terry Tully, former Pipe Major of St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band, a Grade 1 pipe band based in Dublin, Ireland. Under Tully's leadership, St. Laurence O'Toole was the first Irish pipe band to win the World's Championship. has won prizes in Ireland, won the Scottish and British Championships 2008, and won the Champion of Champions in Grade 1. In 2010, they won the World, European and All-Ireland Championships. He has performed with The Chieftains at Carnegie Hall and has appeared on three of the band’s albums.
A composer of pipe music, as well as award-winning Pipe Major, Robert Mathieson served as pipe major of the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band of North Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 1986 to 2010. The band won 30 major championships under Mathieson’s leadership and was a 5-time winner of the World Pipe Band Championships.
Drumming instructor Gordon Bell, led Parlin & District’s drum corp from 1975 through the 1980s, as the band dominated the EUSPBA pipeband scene, winning the Grade 2 North American Championship, placing them in Grade 1. In the solo field, Gordon won EUSPBA Overall Champion each year from 1979 to 1987