Margaret Dunn
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Margaret Dunn is an Irish bagpiper
, originally from Cullen, Co. Cork, now living in Scotland. She started learning the pipes when she was 9 years old and was initially taught by her father Con Houlihan. She later received lessons from Stephen Power (ex Scots Guards) and moved to Scotland when she was 17 to study piping. Dunn is Pipe Major of Cullen Pipe Band from Cork. The band became world
champions in Grade 3B in 2007.
While in Scotland she joined the grade 1 Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe
Band and with them won the World Pipe Band Championships in 2000. In 2003 Dunn graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
Drama, with an honours degree in Scottish Traditional Music.
In 2003 Dunn became the first ever female to win an A grade
Light music competition and in 2008 went on to be the first female to ever
play on the Former Winners March Strathspey & Reel competition stage at the
Argyllshire Gathering in Oban.
Bagpipes
Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
, originally from Cullen, Co. Cork, now living in Scotland. She started learning the pipes when she was 9 years old and was initially taught by her father Con Houlihan. She later received lessons from Stephen Power (ex Scots Guards) and moved to Scotland when she was 17 to study piping. Dunn is Pipe Major of Cullen Pipe Band from Cork. The band became world
champions in Grade 3B in 2007.
While in Scotland she joined the grade 1 Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe
Band and with them won the World Pipe Band Championships in 2000. In 2003 Dunn graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
Drama, with an honours degree in Scottish Traditional Music.
In 2003 Dunn became the first ever female to win an A grade
Light music competition and in 2008 went on to be the first female to ever
play on the Former Winners March Strathspey & Reel competition stage at the
Argyllshire Gathering in Oban.
Awards
- Northern Meetings Silver Medal in 2007
- 1st MacGregor Memorial Piobaireachd (22 and under) Oban 1999
- 1st B Grade March, Oban 1999
- 1st Duncan Johnstone Memorial Piobaireachd 2001
- 1st B Grade Piobaireachd, Inveraray 2003
- 1st Strachan Memorial MSR, London 2000
- 1st A Grade Strathspey and Reel, Oban 2003
- 1st A Grade March Argyleshire Gathering 2007