Stuart Liddell
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Stuart Liddell | |
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| Born | January 12, 1973 |
| Origin | Inveraray, Scotland |
| Occupation | Piano Tuner |
| Instrument | Bagpipes |
| Website | www |
Stuart Liddell MBE (born 12 January 1973) is a Scottish bagpipe player, playing Great Highland bagpipe. As well as competing in solo competitions, he is the Pipe major of the Inveraray and District Pipe Band.
He was born in Oban on 12 January 1973 and spent his early years in Inveroran, near Bridge of Orchy. His father Billy was an accomplished musician, as is his mother Agnes, and his grandfather was Ronnie McCallum, piper to the Duke of Argyll and a prominent piping tutor. At the age of four the family moved to Moffat in Dumfriesshire where Stuart went to school. The family moved to Inveraray, his mother's home town, in 1983.[1]
Band history
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For ten years (1998–2008), he played with the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band in Burnaby, British Columbia.[2] With the SFU Pipe band he won three World Pipe Band Championship titles, in 1999, 2001, and 2008.[3] Before joining the SFU Pipe Band, he played with ScottishPower Pipe Band.
Liddell lives in Inveraray and is Pipe major of the Grade 1 Inveraray & District Pipe Band, which he founded in 2003.
Stuart Liddell has won the World Pipe Band Championships as Pipe major of Inveraray & District Pipe Band in 2017, 2019, 2024 and 2025.
