If you need a bagpiper for your event, feel free to send an e-mail to mike@mikehorvath.com or leave me a VM at 513-239-PIPE(7473).

For more information about piping services, check out the Cincinnati Bagpiper’s website.

I started playing the Great Highland pipes in 1998. I was very lucky to have had the instruction of some premier players and highly sought after teachers. I've invested a great deal of time to achieve what I have so far with my music.

My experience includes:

• Pipe Major, 2007, Cincinnati Caledonian Pipes and Drums Grade 4 Competition Band.
• Solo Competitor, in the Eastern US Pipe Band Association and Midwest Pipe Band Association.

Solo Piping Results, 2002

•  Arkansas Scottish Festival, Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas.  First Place Solo Piobaireachd! Grade Three Solo Piobaireachd! Full submitted tune: The Boat Tune.
•  Ligonier Highland Games, Ligonier, PA
  Middle of the pack in the 2/4 March event. 5th place in Piobaireachd.

Solo Piping Results, Summer 2001

•  Arkansas Scottish Festival, Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas
  Third Place Solo Piobaireachd
• Ligonier Highland Games, Ligonier, PA
  9th Place in the march against a field of 25, judge wrote, "Best pipe I've heard all day." 6th place in Piobaireachd
   

Solo Piping Results, Summer 2000

•  *Glasgow Highland Games: Glasgow, Kentucky.
    Grade 4 Senior Piper Of The Day
    First Place, Piobaireachd
    2/4 March

Instructors/Instruction

I've attended Oberlin's Ohio School of Scottish Arts in 2000, '01, '02, and ‘03. I was honored to recieve the Bob Callendar Scholarship my first year in attendance.

I've studied Piobaireachd under Iain Macey, Reay Mackay, Andrew Wright, George Lumsden, Greg Abbot, and Jimmy Bell.

I am able to teach what I may know about the instrument to willing students, and I enjoy seeing progress as they improve.

Instrument
I currently play David Naill DN4 pipes, with a Gannaway bag, with Kinnaird bass and EZ tenors.  I play a Naill blackwood chanter and a Gilmour reed, a Kron Medallist Blackwood with another Gilmour, and a Gibson Poly Chanter that is quite good.

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