Alasdair Cuthbert

I started learning the bagpipes at school aged 9 - I immediately took to the instrument, and have been a keen player ever since. I began learning under the tutoring of Pipe Major Dixie Ingram, former PM of the Scots Guards. From 2012 to 2017, I studied at Eton College under Pipe Major Jim Motherwell BEM, former PM of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Queen's Piper. While at school, I took part in several large concerts, solo, as a Pipe Band, and alongside the Brass Band and major events, including the annual CCF Military Tattoo, as well as winning twice the school Bagpipe Competition. In my final year I became the Pipe Major of the School Pipe Band, and led the band in all their events that year. Alongside this school career I have pursued many other outlets for my piping, including playing many times for the Basrah Road Dinner Club of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. Now a student at the University of Oxford, I am still furthering my playing at any opportunity, and play often for the various functions of my Reserve Unit, the Oxford University Officer's Training Corps, alongside other engagements both in and around the University, and beyond.