News Release
July 2000

Moravian College to host Piping and Drumming Concert

(Bethlehem, PA) -- The Balmoral School of Piping and Drumming will be sponsoring its annual Instructor’s concert on Thursday, August 3, at Moravian College. Like the legendary Brigadoon emerging from the mists, the Balmoral School will feature some of the world's top Scottish pipers and drummers to teach and perform during a three-week educational session ending on August 4.

The Thursday, August 3 concert will begin at 8 p.m. and take place at Moravian Colleges’ Foy Concert Hall. The event will include a performance by the Balmoral skilled student pipe and drum band, as well as solo and ensemble performances by the instructors. Over 110 students from the U.S., Canada and Scotland have enrolled to study with Norman Gillies of Ullapool, Scotland; Joyce McIntosh of Pittsburgh, PA; Scot Walker of Emmaus, PA; George Balderose of Pittsburgh, PA; Maureen Connor of Schenectady, NY; and champion Scottish snare drummer Gordon Bell of Parlin, NJ.

Joyce McIntosh, is an award winning Open competitive piper, as well as a member of the EUSPBA Judges’ Panel. In addition, she is a 1999 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship Awardee for Folk and Traditional Performing Arts in Highland and Scottish Dancing. Norman Gillies, is a winner of the Uist & Barra, The Scottish Pipers Association, The Edinburgh Police, & The British Legion competitions. Scot Walker was rated #1 Overall Solo Piping Competitor 7 out of 8 years by the Eastern U.S. Pipe Band Association. George Balderose is an award winning piper, smallpipe player and instructor who has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony and at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, in NYC. Maureen Connor is a Open Class competitive piper this year and in previous years won many prizes as an amateur player. Gordon Bell has won every major Scottish solo snare drumming trophy in the USA.

For information about the concert, please call (610) 861-3916. For information about the Balmoral School, please contact George Balderose, The Balmoral Schools, 1414 Pennsylvania Ave, Pittsburgh, PA. 15233 (412) 323-2707, FAX (412) 323-1817, email: info@bagpiping.org. The Balmoral School is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation.

Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college. Visit the Web site at www.moravian.edu.