Vienna, VA Bagpipes Lessons

I use a really fun and fast approach to getting any student up and playing in no time and more advanced players to the next level by improving their technique, dialing in tuning and tone, and expanding their repertoire. 26 years experience teaching beginner to professional level pipers.

My initial instruction follows the John Sprague school method, which focuses on precise articulation of ornamentation, leading into pipe band music.

Once a grounding in pipe band technique has been achieved, I can continue to work with students along the pipe band path through the intermediate level, or branch off into folk/kitchen piping, informed my extensive experience as a fiddler.

I am also willing to teach small pipe and border pipe students.

Grade One Professional Bagpiper with the British Columbia Piper's Association (Vancouver, Canada). I have played bagpipes since childhood and competed starting in Grade 5 all the way through Grade One. Former pipe major of the Northwest Junior Pipe Band. I studied under Kevin Auld and Brian McKenzie out of Seattle Washington, and taken additional lessons with Roddy McLeod, Brian Donaldson, and Fred Morrison. I look forward to bringing bagpipes to your life and revealing the shocking harmonic beauty that can be achieved from simple practice.