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Entries are now open for the 'World Solo Amateur Piping Competition' at Piping Live! This competition is open to adult amateur pipers worldwide, graded 3, 2 or 1. If you require a grading please visit the grading section of the website for more information.

The venue is St Aloysius College, Hill Street, Glasgow.

For non members, please note that the membership payment structure is as follows:

CLASP Membership payment windows:
1st November - 31st March - £40 (1 years membership)
1st April - 30th June - £30
1st - July - 31st October - £20

The closing date for entries will be 31st July, 2019.

Monday 12th August will start with Grade 3 amateur solo piping events. Tuesday, 13th August - Grade 2 and Wednesday 14th August Grade 1.

This year CLASP will hold events at four of Scotland's biggest Highland Games, Luss, Balloch, Rosneath and Inveraray. Entries are open to CLASP members who are graded 3, 2 or 1. For overseas pipers who are interested in competing in amateur solo piping events, please contact mdunn@thepipingcentre.co.uk & fjohnston@thepipingcentre.co.uk

Pictured: Dagmar Pesta, from Germany, on the boards at Inveraray Highland Games.

Members are now able to enter the upcoming Army School of Piping Competition, in Edinburgh, on 8th June 2019. Closing date for entries will be Wednesday 29th May, 2019.

Please see below the order of play for the upcoming CLASP Competition, held in the National Piping Centre, Glasgow, on Saturday 30th March, 2019. Please note that there are two performance rooms with the Light Music and Piobaireachd competitions running concurrently. Both events will start at 9.30am sharp.

Room 1  - JUDGE – Callum Beaumont              Starting Time – 9.30am
Grade 3 Piobaireachd

1. Philip Duthie
2. John B Hunt (+Ground)
3. Robert Thomson
4. Dorothy Moodie (+ Ground)
5. Bill Copland
6. Hector Thomson
7. Stephen McCusker
8. James Hanlon (+Ground)
9. Jeremy Levif
10. Matteo Melison
11. Joe Moore

Grade 2 Piobaireachd

1. Stewart Allan
2. Dagmar Pesta
3. Iain Kirkwood
4. David Robertson
5. Dugald Macleod
6. Helen Thomson
7. Lachlan MacDonald
8. Duncan Lamont
9. David Mackenzie

Lunch Break

Grade 1 Piobaireachd

1. Bianca Kail
2. Stewart Gaudin
3. Janette Greenwood
4. Gordon Hislop
5. Douglas Maxwell
6. Sandie Greenwood
7. Robert Wilson
8. George Gordon
9. Con Houlihan
10. Gill Cairns
11. Graham Farr
    
    Prize Giving

Room 2 - JUDGE – Matt Wilson             Starting Time – 9.30am

Grade 1 Light Music

1. Stephen Whitton
2. Gordon Hislop
3. Con Houlihan
4. Robert Wilson
5. David Mackenzie
6. Sandie Greenwood
7. Stewart Gaudin
8. Gill Cairns
9. Janette Greenwood
10. George Gordon
11. Bianca Kail
12. Graham Farr

Grade 3 Light Music

1. Hector Thomson
2. Lachlan MacDonald
3. James McKenna (M/ S&R only)
4. Jeremy Levif
5. Garry Murphy
6. Bill Copland
7. John B Hunt
8. Philip Duthie
9. Robert Thomson
10. Joe Moore
11. James Hanlon
12. Alan Gibbs (M/ S&R only)
13. Matteo Melison

    Lunch Break

Grade 2 Light Music

1. James Waugh
2. Douglas Maxwell
3. David Robertson
4. Helen Thomson
5. Dagmar Pesta
6. Duncan Lamont
7. Iain Kirkwood
8. Stewart Allan
9. Dugald Macleod

   Prize Giving

The next CLASP competition of 2019 will be held at The National Piping Centre, McPhater Street, Glasgow. To enter this competition, please log into the members section of the website.

If you are interested in competing, but are not yet a member of CLASP, please contact mdunn@thepipingcentre.co.uk and fjohnston@thepipingcentre.co.uk

Pictured above are the overall winners. From L to R - David MacKenzie (Grade 1 ) Bill Copland (Grade 3) & David Robertson (Grade 2).

Full results

Grade 3

Piobaireachd (Full)
1st Bill Copland
2nd Dorothy Moodie
3rd Robert Thomson

Piobaireachd Ground
1st Dorothy Moodie
2nd Robert Thomson
3rd (Joint) Stephen McClusker + Bjorn Frauendienst

2/4 March
1st Bill Copland
2nd Jeremy Levif
3rd Lachlan MacDonald

Strathspey and Reel
1st Bill Copland
2nd Joris Panis
3rd Jeremy Levif

Jig
1st Bill Copland
2nd Joris Panis
3rd Jeremy Levif

Grade 2

Piobaireachd
1st David MacKenzie
2nd Dugald MacLeod
3rd Dagmar Pesta

2/4 March
1st Douglas Maxwell
2nd Stewart Allan
3rd Iain Kirkwood

Strathspey and Reel
1st David Robertson
2nd Douglas Maxwell
3rd Iain Kirkwood

Jig
1st Iain Kirkwood
2nd David Robertson
3rd Douglas Maxwell

Grade 1

Piobaireachd
1st Robert Wilson
2nd Stewart Gaudin
3rd Andrew Park

2/4 March
1st David MacKenzie
2nd Janette Greenwood
3rd Con Houlihan

Strathspey and Reel
1st David MacKenzie
2nd Con Houlihan
3rd Janette Greenwood

Jig
1st Robert Wilson
2nd David MacKenzie
3rd Con Houlihan