This was the 25th anniversary of the NPC Junior Competition and the first time the event has been held online due to the pandemic and lockdown. While we missed hosting the competition in The National Piping Centre, the online format allowed us to add six more categories to the competition, including a new Freestyle competition.
By Andrew Bova
Additionally, we had a record entry this year with 132 competitors, including international competitors. Pictured above is Under 18 Champion Cameron May on his way to winning the U18 Piobaireachd event.
Crit sheets will be emailed out over the next week, with over 350 to get through it may take a bit of time. Prizes will also be posted out shortly. Congratulations again to all our prizewinners!
Sponsors: Wallace Bagpipes, RG Hardie & Co, McCallum Bagpipes, John Dew – Composition, John Mulhearn Music, Ross Ainslie Music, G1Reeds.com, MG Reeds, Pipe Dreams, The Piobaireachd Society, Canning Reedmakers, Cpt S Samson, Maverick chanter, dh Design & Typesetting, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, D MacPhee Reeds, C Muirhead.
U12 Chanter Slow Air
1 Seonaidh Forrest 2 Calum Morrison 3 Morla Bruce 4 Joseph Townsley 5 Cairn MacKay 6 Lachlan Campbell
U12 Chanter March
1 Seonaidh Forrest 2 Liam Keeting 3 Cairn MacKay 4 Joseph Townsley 5 Calum Morrison 6 Morla Bruce
U12 Chanter Overall – Seonaidh Forrest
U15 Chanter Slow Air
1 Jack Macarthur 2 Sam Westerman 3 Hugh Anderson 4 Harris Robertson 5 Callum MacDougall 6 Nicholas Melvin
U15 Chanter March
1 Leon Lee 2 Jack MacArthur 3 Harris Robertson 4 Hugh Anderson 5 Callum McDougall 6 Sam Westerman
U15 Chanter Overall – Jack MacArthur
U12 2/4 March
1 Rory Menzies 2 Grace Kelman 3 Robbie Lithgow 4 Abby Long 5 Hamish Stephens 6 Fergus Beattie
U12 Strathspey & Reel
1 Robbie Lithgow 2 Grace Kelman 3 Rory Menzies 4 Fergus Beattie 5 Hamish Stephens 6 Abby Long
U12 Piobaireachd Ground
1 Abby Long 2 Rory Menzies 3 Grace Kelman 4 Robbie Lithgow 5 Fergus Beattie 6 Owen McCreadie
U12 Overall – Rory Menzies
U15 2/4 March
1 Hector Finlayson 2 Connor Eckert 3 Gregor Grierson 4 Ryan McCreadie 5 Luke Nisbet 6 Fraser Hamilton
U15 Strathspey & Reel
1 Cameron Bonar 2 Fraser Hamilton 3 Gregor Grierson 4 Euan Lindsay 5 Cameron MacPhail 6 Logie Johnston
U15 Jig
1 Gregor Grierson 2 Connor Eckert 3 Fraser Hamilton 4 Cameron Bonar 5 Hector Finlayson 6 Euan Lindsay
U15 Piobaireachd Ground
1 Brooklyn Morris 2 Finlay Rowe 3 Thomas Fallon 4 Millie MacLellan 5 Lewis Stewart 6 Fergus Goldie
U15 Full Piobaireachd
1 Lewis Maxwell 2 Cameron Bonar 3 Gregor Grierson 4 Fraser Hamilton 5 Connor Eckert 6 Hector Finlayson
U15 Overall – Gregor Grierson
U18 2/4 March
1 Jack McGowan 2 Cameron May 3 Jake Robertson 4 Hugo McPherson 5 Bobby Allen 6 Andrew Nelson
U18 Strathspey & Reel
1 Cameron May 2 Kyle Cameron 3 Bobby Allen 4 Gregor MacDonald 5 Eala McElhinney 6 Griffin Jackson
U18 Jig
1 Jack McGowan 2 Gregor MacDonald 3 Cameron May 4 Bobby Allen 5 Finlay Peden 6 Griffin Jackson
U18 Piobaireachd
1 Cameron May 2 Bobby Allan 3 Gregor MacDonald 4 Archie MacLean 5 Callum Lowther 6 Dugald MacKechnie
U18 Overall – Cameron May
Freestyle
1 Catriona Norman 2 Ryan McCreadie 3 Magnus Stone 4 Flora Stone 5 Eala Niamh McElhinney 6 Aly William