Scottish piper Amber Ives

Name: Amber Ives

Email: amberives@wedding-pipers.com

Based: Glasgow, Scotland

Location (Region Covered): Glasgow, Central belt of Scotland, Scotland, UK, Europe.

Dress: Number 2 uniform, waistcoat and jacket. Modern Lynsey or Modern Skye tartans

Experience: Amber began piping in her home town of Ballarat, (Melbourne, Australia) aged 10 and has since travelled the world performing both as a soloist and within bands.

In July 2009, she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a BA in Scottish Music- Piping.

Career highlights include winning the Australian, Victorian and New Zealand and South Pacific pipe band championships as Pipe Sergeant of the University of Ballarat pipe band (2005), performing at Celtic Connections, (2009 and 2010) Piping Live! (2006 and 2009), the Ballieul Mardi Gras (France) -2009, Interkeltisches Folkfestival (Germany) 2009, and at the Muldhorf Volksfest (Germany)- 2007.

Amber is also a keen teacher employed by the RSAMD’s junior academy program- Musicworks where she can be found most weekends passing on her knowledge and passion to children. She has also guest tutored for the The Argyll School of Bagpiping (2009), Frankfurt Academy of Bagpipes (2009), the Bagpipe Italian Group’s Spring school (2008) and toured the Isle of Mann conducting primary and secondary workshops with the group Ca Canny as part of the lead up to the festival- Yn Chruinnaght (2008).

A member of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and Torphichen and Bathgate (grade 1), Amber also plays border pipes, piano, whistle, sings and has grade 8 clarinet. She is a keen composer, and has received tuition from Major Gavin Stoddart MBE BEM, Major Stuart Samson, Allan MacDonald, Finlay MacDonald and Magaret Dunn.

Event type: Weddings, Funerals, Parties, Burns Nights, St. Andrew’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, entertainment and other media performances, concerts with Symphony Orchestras, Ceilidh bands, Irish Traditional Music bands.

Pictures: Glasgow Piper Amber Ives

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