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Derek Midgley is delighted to be on Bagpipes Faculty at Cornerstone Music Studios. Derek is from Tinton Falls, New Jersey, and began piping at 12 years old under George Bell. As he grew older and played in higher grades, competition took him all across the US and Canada, and eventually to Scotland where Derek became one of a handful of Americans ever to win the B Grade Marches and Silver Medal for Piobaireachd, which he achieved in 2011 and 2012 respectively at the Northern Meetings in Inverness. He is also currently the only American to have won all three A grade events at the Scottish Piping Society's London competition and, most recently won the Dunvegan Medal for Piobaireachd in 2016, further cementing his place in the senior circuit of international piping. Derek also has significant Grade 1 pipe band experience, having played with the City of Washington, Toronto Police and ScottishPower Pipe Bands over the past 12 years. Currently a member of ScottishPower Pipe Band located in Glasgow, Scotland, the band features regularly in the top 6 in the world pipe band championships, most notably placing 2nd in 2012. As the former Vice President of the Competing Pipers Association, and currently graded A+/A+ in Scotland and Open in the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, Derek is one of only a handful of American pipers to have achieved international renown on both an individual and band level. Now, as the premier bagpiper in New Jersey and through the tuition of Roddy MacLeod MBE, Derek recently joined the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association judging panel and continues the tradition of excellence that he was brought up in by teaching individuals and bands in New Jersey and across the east coast of the United States.
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