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Stirling University Summer School
Bill has taken fiddle workshops all over the UK and is a tutor at The Stirling University Summer School. You can take a one week, two week or a weekend course in the Scottish fiddle. Improve your technique, learn new tunes and have fun. If you wish to find out more about these courses visit the Stirling University website. |
| Glenfiddich
Fiddle Championship Bill has also adjudicated at the prestigious Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship, a major competition for the Scottish fiddler. The competition takes place in Blair Castle at Blair Atholl each year and fiddlers must play solo pieces for approximately fifteen minutes. A slow air, march, strathspey and reel should be played as one set, and a slow strathspey, hornpipe and jig, as another. Competitors also devise their own set using tunes from a particular composer named by the competition organisers. Around eight to ten people compete each year, and the prize is £250 plus a large quaich (which must be returned), and a miniature quaich to keep. This years winner was young Shetland fiddler Gemma Donald (17) from Whiteness. The 2007 GLENFIDDICH FIDDLE CHAMPIONSHIP will take place on Sunday, 28th October. |