Piping Live 10th Anniversary Pipe Tune Competition

Glasgow International Piping Festival Piping Live! this year celebrates its 10th Birthday. As part of the celebration the festival is running a new tune composing competition and is now inviting entries to this event.

Tunes submitted must be a March of any time signature for the Highland Bagpipe and must consist of 4 parts. Tunes must be original and entrants should send in manuscripts to the address below. The manuscript should not have any other information marked on it and should be accompanied by a separate cover page stating the composers name and contact details. These should be sent with a stamped addressed envelope so that the entry can be acknowledged. Alternatively entries can be submitted via email to [email protected].uk in PDF format only. All email entries will be kept anonymous from the competition adjudicators.

Entries close at 5pm on Friday 26th July. Entries will be judged by a committee of National Piping Centre teachers chaired by the Principal, Roddy MacLeod MBE. The composers of the top 5 tunes selected will be notified on 2nd Augustand will receive an invitation to attend the performance at Piping Live!

The top 5 tunes will be performed on Tuesday 13th August at a special Piping Live! event in The National Piping Centre Auditorium at 5pm. Each of the 5 tunes will be allocated to a piper from the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland to perform in front of an independent panel and live audience. The adjudicators will not have sight of any of the composers’ details until such a time as the tunes have been judged.

The winning tune will be announced at the end of the Piping Live! Tune Competition event and the prize will be £500.

Piping Live! Tune Competition
The National Piping Centre
30-34 McPhater Street
Glasgow
G4 0HW

Terms and Conditions

1. Copyright of all entries remains with the composer. However, by entering you are granting Glasgow International Piping Festival the right to broadcast, perform, record or publish your entry.
2. The National Piping Centre teachers will not be eligible to enter this competition.
3. The composition must not have appeared anywhere in the public domain before entry to the competition or during judging.
4. Entries must be made in either printed manuscript or electronic PDF format.
5. Entries must be easily read and interpreted by the judges.
6. Any entry not conforming to these regulations or whose composer is made known to the judges by any other means will not be judged.