OSAS-Pipes

Ohio Scottish Arts School

Come Join The “Magic”! June 25—July 1, 2011 Our 33rd Year!

Pipes

All Students are expected to bring their own instrument.

The piping course for the week will include the following:

• Improving technique and execution.

• Music theory and its application to the pipes.

• Learning different types of tunes.

• Care and maintenance of the pipes.

• Working with reeds and setting up the instrument.

• Various levels of Piobaireachd instruction available.

• Playing together in a group or band

There will be opportunities to play in evening sessions and to practice your new found knowledge.

Advanced Piping

The Advanced Piping course will have you setting up your pipe for the winning sound.

• Marches

• Strathspey and Reels

• Hornpipes and Jigs

This will include selecting tunes that are suited to the player and getting the most expression from the tunes.

Advanced Piobaireachd

Course will suit those who already play piobaireachd and who want to improve their playing and at the same time increase their knowledge of the music.

Be advised that class size is limited and some classes fill

BEFORE the stated deadline for registration.

Taught originally in the Wallacestone pipe band in Falkirk, Scotland, Stuart Cassells then received solo instruction from George Lumsden and the legendary Donald MacPherson. He started playing in grade 1 pipe bands at 13 years old with Torphichen and Bathgate, then the famous Vale of Atholl with Ian and Gordon Duncan and more recently with Scottish Power and the 78th Fraser Highlanders. In 2005 he was named BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year and graduated with honours from The Royal Academy of Music and Drama with a degree in Scottish Music - Piping. He is now best known for his work with folk rock group The Red Hot Chilli Pipers.

Barry Conway has studied under Doug Ross, Ken Eller, Sandy Keith, Noel Slagle, and Bob Worrall, and had his Piobaireachd training from Jim McIntosh. He is a successful solo player having won the Ohio Scottish Games Piper of Day 3 times and won or placed at virtually every major contest in Ontario, Midwest and East including North American Championships in Maxville. Barry finished his solo career at Open level.

He is the current Pipe Major of Great Lakes Pipe Band and a former member of Windsor Police Pipe Band Gr. 1 and City of Washington Gr. 1 Pipe Band, 87th Cleveland Gr. 2 Pipe Band, and Western Reserve Gr. 2 Pipe Band. He began his career playing with The Caledonian Pipe Band, Cleveland, OH and he is founding member and former Pipe Sergeant and Pipe Major of North Coast Pipe Band.

He has produced or co-produced four recordings in career. Pipes UP, New Crossroads and “Dirty Laugh” while with North Coast Pipe Band and Generations while a member of 87th Cleveland Pipe Band.

Barry has been a bagpipe instructor in the Cleveland Ohio area for many years and has taught at the Ohio Scottish Arts School in 2008 & 2009. He is an adjudicator on both the EUSPBA and MWPBA panels.

Andrew Duncan began piping at age ten. His first teacher was his mother, Ann Marie Duncan. He has studied with John Cairns for over 18 years. Drew won the P&PBSO's Champion Supreme award for Grades II and I light music. Drew has won several professional prizes in North America including the 2004 Winnipeg Knockout Championship and the 2005 John Ure Anderson Memorial Gold Medal for Piobaireachd at Ligonier. He began competing with Grade I bands at age 15. Andrew was a member of the highly successful Windsor Police Pipe Band Organization. As a nine year member of the Windsor Police Organization he was; a member of the Grades One and Two bands, pipe major of the Grade Three band, and the primary instructor and organizer for the piping school. Andrew is currently a memberof the Peel Police Pipe Band. Andrew also teaches piping at Alma College. Andrew is a past president of the Windsor-Detroit Branch of the Piper's and Pipe Band Society of Ontario.Andrew is a Science and Math teacher by profession. He and his wife Jodie reside in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Reay Mackay was born in Toronto and studied piping under his father Colin Mackay, Murdo MacLeod and John Wilson. He turned professional at age 13 and has won most of the North American piping awards including the North American Professional Solo Championship 6 times consecutively. He has been P/M of the 48th Highlanders of Canada and the Metro Toronto Police P&D. He has judged most of the major N.A. competitions as well as World Championships in Scotland.

Stephen R. MacNeil has career consisting of 15 years of successful open piping plus 18 years experience in Grade 1 pipe bands with The MacNish Distillery and St. Thomas Police PipeBands (12 years as Pipe Sergeant). He currently plays with the Grade 1 Windsor Police Pipe Band after 4 top 5 placings at the World's in Grade 2. Steve is also a Midwest Pipe Band Association Adjudicator and founder of the Northern Michigan School of Piping. He is a member of the Celtic Folk group “Glengarry Road”. Steve was raised in the Detroit area, with strong family ties to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and now lives with his family in Manistee, Michigan.

2010 Instructors

Faculty is subject to change depending on enrollment.

Instructors for 2011 have yet to be determined