BALMORAL WINTER WORKSHOP GOES ONLINE, FEBRUARY, 2021
Mathieson, Gandy and Carlisle to teach at Balmoral’s first Winter Workshop
The Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming is proud to announce our first ever Winter Workshop for Pipers and Drummers, February 19-21, 2021, for a fee of $275 USD. Students who refer new students to us will receive $50 off the price of the Workshop for every new student referred.
Workshop attendees will receive instruction on the Great Highland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, and Scottish snare drum. Our guest piping instructors—Andrew Carlisle, Robert Mathieson and Bruce Gandy— have all won major awards and have incomparable records of teaching and promoting pipe music around the world.
Originally from Northern Ireland, now a resident of Pittsburgh, Andrew Carlisle has won numerous top awards: A Grade Strathspey and Reel at Oban, the A Grade Piobaireachd & Overall at The Cowal Highland Gathering, US Gold Medals for both Light Music & Piobaireachd, and three All-Ireland titles at Senior level. He’s 3-time winner of the Macallan Trophy at Lorient, Brittany, France. Andrew holds the prestigious positions of Professor of Music and Director of Piping at Carnegie Mellon University.
From Hamilton Scotland, Robert Mathieson is a composer of pipe music, as well as an award-winning Pipe Major. He 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.
A resident of Hallifax, Nova Scotia, Bruce Gandy was a member of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band when they were the first non-Scottish pipe band to win the World Pipe Band Championships in 1987. His solo awards include the Canadian Gold Medal, Gold Medal at the Northern Meeting, Gold Medal at Oban, and Bratach Gorm. He is a 3-time winner of the MacCrimmon Memorial Cairn for Piobaireachd and is a Vancouver Indoor 6-Time Metro Cup Winner.
Our Winter Workshop drumming instructor & head of Balmoral’s drumming program, Gordon Bell, a EUSPBA Overall Champion from 1979-1987, has over 30 years experience instructing drummers. Bell is a veteran of many top Grade One Pipe Bands.
A big part of the Balmoral experience is our community. Even in the days of social distancing, we plan to give our students the opportunity to network, as well as make friends who share a common interest in piping and drumming. Or as Balmoral Director George Balderose says, “Register for the Winter Workshop to advance your skills online and join the community that refuses to let Covid 19 stop its musical progress!”
Tech help will be made available to those not familiar with Zoom.
Balmoral Winter Workshop Online!
