Hamish and Fin Moore
www.hamishmoore.com
Makers of high quality Scottish Small Pipes, Highland Bagpipes, Border and Reel pipes.
Hamish and Fin Moore, Fungarth Steading, Dunkeld, Perthshire PH8 0ES, Scotland * email hamishandfin@hamishmoore.com * tel +[44] (0)1350 728 838
 

Biographies

Hamish Moore

Hamish MooreAfter graduating as a veterinary surgeon in 1975, Hamish Moore worked as a vet until 1986 when he retired from The Ministry of Agriculture in order to play music and make bagpipes professionally. Through his recordings, teaching, and pipe-making he has done much to promote the bellows blown pipes of Scotland.

Due to the social, political and religious history of this country much of the rich, colourful diversity of piping culture has been tragically lost and Hamish has been at the fore-front of a renaissance promoting a pre-military style of piping. This has been achieved principally through his integrated approach to teaching, where the music is taught through the medium of Gaelic song and as part of the old step dance rhythms.

Teaching

Creative inspiration and musical director of the Ceolas summer school in South Uist. Founder of many piping schools in Scotland and USA, most notably with Matt Buckley in Richmond, Vermont. Principal tutor of Scottish Small Pipes at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton 1992 -96.

Discography

Cauld Wind Pipes –Dunkeld Records 1985
Open Ended –Dunkeld Records 1987
The Bees Knees (with Dick Lee) – Greentrax Recordings 1990
Farewell to Decorum (with Dick Lee) – Greentrax Recordings 1992
Stepping on the Bridge – Greentrax Recordings 1994

Also features on numerous comilation CDs

 

Fin Moore

Fin Moore is a piper, born & bred. He plays the Highland pipes, Border pipes and Scottish Small Pipes. For five years, he played in the Vale of Atholl Juvenile Band and is now a partner with his father, Hamish, as very successful pipemakers.

Fin has gained a great reputation as a teacher of pipes, having completed four summer seasons teaching at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton. He has also taught at the Lowland and Border Pipers Society annual teaching weekend in Melrose and at The Piper Gathering, Vermont and other schools around the world.

He has now performed at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, Celtic Colours in Cape Breton, the Edinburgh International Festival and the William Kennedy Piping Festival, Armagh. He has played solo and with bands including, Dannsa who are gaining great respect in Scotland and abroad for their traditional and innovating dancing, the internationally renowened Cape Breton band, Slainte Mhath, and Scottish band Back of the Moon, winners at the Scottish traditional music awards 2003.

"this boy was born to play a reel and when he did so on the Scottish Small Pipes, stamping both feet to produce a step dance rhythm section......living precariously with his own exciting variations, he was magic" - 25th of August 1999, Alastair Clark The Scotsman.

"Fin Moore is quite outstanding has a teacher" - 2001 Angus MaxMillian, summer school student.

"Mr Fin Moore in particular, I find, is extremely well suited to teaching" - 2003 Bruce Armastrong, summer school student.

Fin has not made a solo CD yet but appears on The Piper and the Maker, Oirfeid Uibhist and the first CD or three CDs taken from the Pipers Gathering festival.
 

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