MWPBA Education Series
The MWPBA is proud to present these highly informative seminars from some of the top names in piping and drumming.
These are provided free of charge to all. MWPBA membership is not required to view.
If you are not yet a member of the MWPBA, do please consider joining us as an individual member or supporting member, to support our mission of furthering the development of the art of piping and drumming throughout the midwest.
Piobaireachd for Amateur Grades -- May 20, 2024 Geared to all amateur grade pipers. For nearly forty years, Jack Lee of Simon University Pipe Band has been ranked among the world’s most accomplished pipers. He has won all the top solo prizes available: The Glenfiddich Championship, Gold Medals at both Oban and Inverness, the Clasp at Inverness (2), the Silver Star at Inverness (4), the Bratach Gorm at London (3) the Open Piobaireachd at Oban (2), the Silver Star at Oban and the Masters Invitational (2). Jack teaches many piping schools and workshops each year as well as numerous private students around the world via Skype. |
Jack Lee |
How to set up your band on the day of a contest -- May 12, 2024 Geared to all band grades 2-5. Richard Parkes has been Pipe Major of 13 time World Champion Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band since 1981, making history by leading FMM to become the most successful pipe band ever to come from Northern Ireland. Richard was honored with an MBE from Her Majesty The Queen in 2004 for recognition of his services to pipe band music in Northern Ireland. In 2019 he was awarded honorary doctorates by Queens University and the University of Ulster in recognition of his contribution to pipe bands, both in Northern Ireland and worldwide. |
Richard Parkes, MBE |
Improve Your Drum Corps -- March 25, 2024 Geared to all band grades 2-5. J. Reid Maxwell is in his 30th year leading the SFU Pipe Band drum corps. He is certainly one of today’s most decorated drummers, having captured nine World Pipe Band Championship titles and ten Drum Corps titles – most recently winning the Drum Corps title in 2022. |
J. Reid Maxwell |
2-parted strathspeys and reels -- Feb 21, 2024 Geared to the recently introduced Strathspey & Reel event for Grade 4 solo pipers. Bob Worrall is one of North America’s leading teachers, adjudicators and performers. Bob is a respected composer, having published three successful collections of bagpipe music. He is featured on three solo piping recordings and was a member of the folk group “Scantily Plaid”. A member of North American and the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s judging panels, Bob has been selected to judge the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow on fourteen occasions. For the last twelve years he has been the colour commentator for the BBC’s broadcast of the World Pipe Band Championships. |
Bob Worrall |
Tenor Drumming -- Jan 22, 2024 Geared to all amateur grade pipers. Owen Russell plays with Grade 1 Simon Fraser University pipe band, and came to SFU from the City of Chicago Pipe Band in 2011. He travels from St. Paul, Minnesota to play with the band. |
Owen Russell |