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- 29 years experience playing the bagpipes.
- I
have performed at hundreds of Weddings and Funerals
and am well versed in all relevant protocols.
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I have
played numerous
times at Wedding venues such as Rupertswood, Montsalvat, Avalon Castle,
Quat Quatta, Rippon Lea
Estate, Overnewton Castle, Emu Bottom Homestead, Werribee Mansion, Glen
Erin Vineyard Retreat, Victoria Police Chapel and most
of Melbourne's CBD Churches.
- 15 years professional piping
at a Grade 1 standard with the Victoria Police Pipe Band. Grade 1 is the
highest attainable level in pipe bands. In
competition, the band was undefeated in Australia from 1988 to 1998. At
the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, the band was
placed in the top six in Grade 1 every year from
1992 to 1997. In 1998, the band achieved its goal and become the Grade
1 World Pipe Band Champions. This is
the ultimate achievement in the world of pipe bands and to
this date, the Victoria Police Pipe Band is the only band from the
Southern
Hemisphere to achieve this feat at a Grade 1 level. In addition to
playing with the band, I
was also a member of the team responsible for the tuning and setting up
of the band.
The Victoria Police Pipe Band, winning the Grade One World
Pipe Band Championships,
Glasgow Green, Scotland, 1998.
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I am well experienced performing with other musicians and
am able
to
have my bagpipe accurately tuned to suit Bb 466 or A 440.
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I have played as
a soloist
with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and
the Victorian State Orchestra. The performances included traditional
Scottish music as well as the composition "Orkney Wedding With Sunrise".
I have also played as a soloist with artists such as Eric
Burden, Marion Martin and on the mini-series "My Brother Tom".
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I have performed on internationally acclaimed pipe band
recordings, such as "Uphold The Right", "Live In Ireland", "Live In The
Rockies" and "The Masterblaster Concert", in Motherwell, Scotland.
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I have tutored a number of pipe bands to a high degree of
competitive success
relative to their grade:
- The Footscray City Highland Pipe Band, with
numerous local, state and national Championships in Grades 3 and 2,
including wins at the 1994 Grade 2 New Zealand Pipe Band Championships
and the 1996 and 1998 Grade 2 Australian Pipe Band
Championships.
- The Watsonia R.S.L. Pipe Band, who won the
1998 Grade 4 Australian Pipe Band Championships.
- The Maryborough & Districts Highland Pipe Band, with
wins at the 2000 and 2001 Grade 4 Australian Pipe Band Championships
and a 2nd place at the 2003 Grade 3 New Zealand Pipe
Band Championships. Between 2001 and 2006, the band also enjoyed
numerous wins in local Grade 3 competitions.
- I am an
accredited Piping
Judge in Australia with both the
Advanced Piping
Certificate (A.P.B.A.) and the Adjudicators Certificate (A.P.B.A.).

The Victoria
Police Pipe Band, Police Academy, early 2000s.

The
Victoria Police Pipe Band, Perth, 1996.

The Williamstown R.S.L. Pipe Band, Geelong, 2009.

The Williamstown R.S.L. Pipe
Band, Anzac Day, 2009.
Ross Bates,
27 Harcombe
Drive,
Sunbury,
Victoria,
Australia,
3429.
Phone: 03 9744 4098
Mobile: 0427
181 164
rabates@iprimus.com.au
ABN:
24 591 526 576
Website
created and maintained
by Ross Bates
Last
updated 07/06/2010
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