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Steven mcwhirter
Steven McWhirter is a pipe band drummer from Northern Ireland. He has won multiple World Championship titles as a solo performer and as part of band. He is the lead drummer for the Inveraray & District Pipe Band.
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- Steven mcwhirter
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- Life
- Band career
- Solo career
- References
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Life
McWhirter was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, in 1983.
Band career
He joined the Cullybackey Pipe Band in Northern Ireland in 1994, and also played with the Warrnambool & District Pipe Band in Australia. When he joined Cullybackey he played the tenor drum, before moving on to play the snare.
Cullybackey won the Grade 2 World Championships in 2002, and J. Reid Maxwell invited him to join the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band in British Columbia. He played with Simon Fraser University every summer until 2008, winning the Grade 1 World Drum Corps Championship in 2004 and 2008, as well as the overall World Pipe Band Championships in 2008.
In 2008 he moved to Scotland to join the Inveraray & District Pipe Band as leading drummer. Inveraray won all five major championships in Grade 2 in 2009, and were promoted to Grade 1 for 2010. In 2014, Inveraray won its first Major at the European Championships, held in Forres.
Solo career
McWhirter won the under-15 World Solo Championships in 1997 and 1998, and the World Solo Drumming Championships in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
He has taught at schools, including Dollar Academy.