Alex Gandy
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Alex Gandy is new to our staff this year...and we couldn't be more excited!
Alex, at the age of 21, has earned an incredible reputation within the international piping scene.
Alex, at the age of 21, has earned an incredible reputation within the international piping scene.
As a third year Economics student at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Alex has been keeping with his studies as well as some maor contests, both solo and as a band mate.
He began piping at age ten and had the good fortune of family for VERY high level instruction; his father Bruce Gandy, his mother Beverly Gandy (played with the 78th Highland Frasers) and his grandfather Ronnie Rollo.
As a member of Field Marshall Montgomery he helped the band take 6 major prizes...including a World Championship in 2007 and a 2nd place at the Worlds in 2008. In his own words " I owe a lot toPipe Major Richard Parkes and Pipe Sergeant Alastair Dunn. [My time with them] was an incredibly valuable learning experience.
His solo prize list includes:
Canadian Gold Medal at Maxville in 2009, Champion Supreme in Professional light music in PPBSO, 2nd in Kansas City Gold Medal in 2010, 1st in Kansas City Silver Medal and Gold Medal light music in 2009, 1st in Open Jigs at Oban, 1st in Senior March at Inveraray, winner of Piobaireachd and Overall at Duncan Johnstone Memorial in 2007.
This was just published in "pipes/drums" on February 16, 2010:
'Long Beach, California – February 13-14, 2010 – Alex Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won all three Professional Solo Piping events at the annual Queen Mary Scottish Festival, against a field of 12 other competitors. The solo competitions are held on the decks and within the dry-docked ocean liner, which has served as a hotel for several decades since being decommissioned. Gandy recently joined the Grade 1 LA Scots Pipe Band, which performed as a guest band throughout the weekend.'
Having both Bruce and Alex at MSOPD is going to make for an awesome week!
He began piping at age ten and had the good fortune of family for VERY high level instruction; his father Bruce Gandy, his mother Beverly Gandy (played with the 78th Highland Frasers) and his grandfather Ronnie Rollo.
As a member of Field Marshall Montgomery he helped the band take 6 major prizes...including a World Championship in 2007 and a 2nd place at the Worlds in 2008. In his own words " I owe a lot toPipe Major Richard Parkes and Pipe Sergeant Alastair Dunn. [My time with them] was an incredibly valuable learning experience.
His solo prize list includes:
Canadian Gold Medal at Maxville in 2009, Champion Supreme in Professional light music in PPBSO, 2nd in Kansas City Gold Medal in 2010, 1st in Kansas City Silver Medal and Gold Medal light music in 2009, 1st in Open Jigs at Oban, 1st in Senior March at Inveraray, winner of Piobaireachd and Overall at Duncan Johnstone Memorial in 2007.
This was just published in "pipes/drums" on February 16, 2010:
'Long Beach, California – February 13-14, 2010 – Alex Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won all three Professional Solo Piping events at the annual Queen Mary Scottish Festival, against a field of 12 other competitors. The solo competitions are held on the decks and within the dry-docked ocean liner, which has served as a hotel for several decades since being decommissioned. Gandy recently joined the Grade 1 LA Scots Pipe Band, which performed as a guest band throughout the weekend.'
Having both Bruce and Alex at MSOPD is going to make for an awesome week!
