Pipe Major Robert G. Richardson

When a client reaches out to me, I bring them a very personal touch and decades of experience in tradition, protocol, music knowledge and everything needed to ensure your event is the most memorable. I also work with clients to customize the experience in exactly the way they desire.

Pipe Major Richardson is an ordained minister and is happy to pray and bring words of comfort to the family.

Credentials, Experience and Background:
As a member of the Supreme Grade I World Champions and Champions of Champions, Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band, Pipe Major Richardson toured in the former USSR and represented Scotland and the United Kingdom at the Canadian bicentennial.

Richardson was a senior Pipe Major of the two bands of the world-renowned Pipes & Drums of British Caledonian Airways. They performed on live television over 200 times in over 40 countries, and on five occasions for HRH Queen Elizabeth.

Pipe Major Richardson has performed for a long list of famous personages.
(With various bands, including the Pipes & Drums of British Caledonian Airways.)
Royalty and Heads of State all over the world
Celebrities
Sports Legends
In many Famous Venues

Pipe Major Richardson has performed for Royalty and Heads of State all over the world:
HRH Queen Mother
HRH Prince Charles
HRH Princess Diana
HRH Duke of Edinburgh & Princess Royal
30 Prime Ministers and Heads of State of the British Commonwealth including PM Margaret Thatcher at Gleneagles.
Presidents Reagan, Carter, and Nixon
Pope John Paul II
Princess Grace of Monaco
Presidents and Heads of State in Argentina, Brazil, Kenya, Uganda, Venezuela, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia.
Dallas, Texas Mayor Ron Kirk asked Pipe Major Richardson to represent Dallas in raising support for the September 11th disaster victims in New York.

Pipe Major Richardson has performed for celebrities such as:
Paul McCartney
Sean Connery
Rod Stewart
John Wayne
Frank Sinatra
Michael Caine
Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
Jethro Tull
Phil Collins
He has performed for Sports Legends such as:
Mohammed Ali
Arnold Palmer
Payne Stewart
Jack Nicklaus
Lee Trevino
Pele
Franz Beckinbauer
Jackie Stewart

He has performed in a long list of famous venues:
The Royal Albert Hall
Hamden Park
Leningrad Concert Hall
London Palladium
New York's Times Square
Madison Square Garden
The national BBC New Years Eve Television program (for four years)
In notable cities such as Beverly Hills and Las Vegas
At many notable golf championships such as:
The British Open
The Colonial
The Bob Hope Classic

Instructors:
Seumas MacNeill College of Piping
John Johnson Glasgow Police/College of Piping
John D. Chritcheon R.S.P.B.A. Judge and Head of College Board
lan McFayden World-renowned piping champion
Robert G. Hardie Pipe Major Muirhead & Sons and top solo piper
Donald MacPherson winner of more solo prizes than anyone in history

Solo Piping:
Juvenile Glasgow schools champion. West of Scotland
R.S.P.B.A., West Scotland B.B., Knightswood, College piping, Highland games, etc.
Amateur 1966 Scotland Amature Champion
Open Professional winning prizes in five countries
Pipe Bands
Knightswood Juveniles Won all majors in Scotland
9-year member of the 5-time Grade One Champions of the World & 6-time Champion Muirhead & Sons Pipe Major, British Caledonian Airways
11 years, from grade Four to winning all majors in grade Two, to a prize-winning grade One band
Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
1970 Passed the instructors course of the S.P.B.A.
(PM. William Sloan, PM. J.K. Mac Allister, D.M. A.D. Hamilton, and D.M. Robert Bruce)
1971 First Piper to pass the Drumming certificate
(D.M. Robert Bruce)
Member of the R.S.P.B.A. adjudicators panel judging all grades and representative of the Pipe Band Association in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, England, France and Holland.
Member of the Scottish Pipe Band Advisory
Judged Solo Piping & Pipe Band Competitions in 8 countries