I’ve always been a bagpiper…
My parents knew something was off when I started carrying a fanny pack around the house. After some investigation, they discovered I was pretending it was a set of bagpipes.
I told them I wanted to be a bagpiper more than anything. I was four years old.
They found me a teacher, and I’ve been a bagpiper since.
Bagpipes have taken me around the United States, Canada, and Scotland. I was a founding member of the Feadan Or Pipe Band in Rochester before competing with the world championship-winning 78th Fraser Highlanders in Toronto, Canada.
With Josh Allen of the Bills at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club.
Piping in my hometown of Spencerport, NY.
Since 2023, I’ve been the only full-time piper in the Rochester area. I pinch myself daily to remember it’s true.
I currently teach almost twenty students, am a bagpipe faculty member at the Hochstein School of Music, am available for hire for any occasion, and am current pipe major of Feadan Or’s Grade Five competition band.
Watch my actual freakin’ TED talk at Nazareth University, Fall 2024.
If you’re looking for a professional with lifelong experience and a commitment to making your event special, I’d love to be your piper.
If you’re looking for someone who lives, eats, and breathes pipes to teach you how to become a piper yourself, I’m here to help.
Get in touch, and if it requires bagpipes, I’m your guy.
My first performance with my first and still teacher, Kevin Angus.
My cousin’s wedding in Aberdeen, Scotland.
My student Max at his first performance.
Don’t feel like reading? Watch the video below to learn some things about me that having nothing to do with bagpipes.