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Michael Grey is a Canadian musician, composer, and author. He is known for highland bagpipe music. He is the Pipe Major of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band.
Grey published seven volumes of pipe music and has received various awards. He is also a teacher and workshop leader.




Early life and education


Grey was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He received his early lessons at the age of thirteen from George Walker of the 48th Highlanders of Canada and was a member of the regiment's pipe band for three years.
He also studied under John Wilson and received tuition from Bill Livingstone, John Walsh, and Captain John A MacLellan MBE.




Career


Grey was a founding member of the 1987 World Pipe Band Champion 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band. He left that band in 1995 and became a pipe major of the Peel Regional Police (PRP) Pipe Band.
In 1999, Grey left the PRP Pipe Band to focus on solo piping. In the same year, he won the Scottish Piping Society of London's (UK) Strachan Cup and was also the aggregate winner of the British Columbia Pipers' Association Annual Gathering.
In 2003, Grey consulted with composer John Beckwith on Beckwith's commission for pipes and orchestra, A New Pibroch. Grey performed the piece's premiere in March 2003; the piece aired in June of that year on CBC Radio 2.
Grey has seven published books of music and nine solo recordings, including the December 2009 release Unqualified Favorites. His books were published in different time spans from 1989 to 2018, and his sixth solo recording, Shimla Hum, was released on May 8, 2006.
In October 2007, Grey joined the premier grade Toronto Police Pipe Band as music director and Pipe Sergeant and left the band in September 2013. He was a member of the Glasgow Police Pipe Band from November 2013 to August 2018.
On January 30, 2016, he performed as part of the Live in Ireland 87 project at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, an initiative he directed with the Celtic Connections music festival. The concert was recorded live by the BBC for broadcast.
In September 2023, Grey was appointed Pipe Major of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, one of five grade-one bands in North America.
As of 2024, he is working on a project detailing the life of GS McLennan and his famous family of pipers and dancers (while gradually assembling his eighth book of music). Grey is also owns his label, Dunaber Music.




= Books

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Highland Bagpipe Music
Music for Pipers
Old and New Tunes
The Peel Regional Police Pipe Band Collection
Music for Everyone
Damned Suites and Other Music
More Music for Everyone
Grey's Notes on a Life Around Bagpipes




= Selected Solo Recordings

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Shambolica!
Nine Blasted Notes
Shimla Hum
Unqualified Favorites




Awards


Grey has won the North American Championship four times, the overall title at the BC Piper's Association Annual Gathering twice, the Piobaireachd Society Gold Medal, and that venue's March, Strathspey & Reel and Former Winners' MSR on the same day. In 1989, he won the aggregate championship at the Cowal Highland Gathering. He has also won the Strachan Cup for March, Strathspey & Reel, playing at the Scottish Piping Society of London (UK) competitions. Grey has won the professional Ontario Championship Supreme awards for classical (pibroch) and light music seventeen times. In 1995, he won the Toronto Piper's Society Knock-Out final. Grey again won this testing event for the third year in 2003.




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