BALMORAL 2024 ONLINE WINTER WORKSHOP
Mathieson, Midgley, & Carlisle to teach at Balmoral’s Winter Workshop
The Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming is offering a weekend-long Winter Workshop for Pipers, February 2-4, 2024, for a fee of $275 USD. Students who refer new students will receive $50 off the price of the Workshop for each new student referred.
Attendees will receive online instruction via Zoom, with tech help available for those who need it. Our guest piping instructors— Robert Mathieson, Derek Midgley, and Andrew Carlisle— have all won major awards and have incomparable records of teaching and promoting pipe music around the world.
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.
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.
Derek Midgley (Piping/ESU) is a fulltime piping instructor based in New Jersey, where he works to improve the piping community along the east coast of the US. For four years, he lived in Glasgow, Scotland, and has won numerous piping awards, including B Marches and Silver Medal at the Northern Meeting, 2nd Highland Society of London Gold Medal at Oban; Dunvegan Medal, 6/8 Marches & 2/4 Marches at Dunvegan, and Overall at the United States Piping Foundation Championship.
Special deal for band members! Bring at least a few members of your pipe band to the workshop and you’ll receive a highly customizable band clinic, tailored to your band’s needs, as part of your Winter Workshop experience.