Stuart Cassells

Falkirk's Stuart Cassells won the 2005 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year. Against stiff competition from around Scotland. Stuart lifted the trophy at The Celtic Connections Festival on January 23rd 2005 in a storming performance at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Stuart is an Honours Graduate from Glasgow's Royal College of Music and Drama, the first to complete its piping-specific course.

Stuart's piping has seen him invited to join Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell on his official visit to China, to perform at The Scottish Proms, and to be part of the Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire".

Distinctly non-traditional developments, however, include an invitation to join glam-rockers "The Darkness" on a track for their second album - Stuart also plays with the "Red Hot Chilli Pipers" and they met up with The Darkness at Scotland's "T in the Park" music festival joining them on stage for a rip-roaring set of tunes.

Pipe Major Bill Livingstone invited Stuart to join Canada's prestigious 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band for the 2006 contest season. The traditional aspect of Stuart's playing can be evidenced by the fact that he has had stints with such notable bands as Scottish Power and the Vale of Atholl.

His first solo album entitled "Blown Away" was released in May 2006.

Contact details:

Web Site: http://www.scottishbagpiper.co.uk

Interviews:

From “The Darkness” to “Harry Potter” - read how The Scotsman summarises the career of Scottish Bagpiper’s Stuart Cassells... Harry Potter and the Piper by Jim Gilchrist STUART CASSELLS, DEMON PIPER AND bagpipe entrepreneur, seems poised to make quite a name for himself - thanks, in part, to the forces of Darkness, and Harry Potter. The 26-year-old Glasgow-based piper, who will perform at the Scots Trad Music Awards concert next month, upped his profile back in January when a fiery performance in the face of stiff competition saw him become BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of 2005. The award came with a deal to record his first CD, which sees him in the studio this month. Until now, Cassells has made a living playing for weddings and corporate events. Distinctly non-traditional developments, however, include joining glam-rockers The Darkness on a track for their second album, due for release on 28 November, and powering an idiosyncratic little number called Do the Hippogriff, which features during the Hogwarts Yule Ball sequence in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It's performed on screen by "the Weird Sisters", featuring Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead's Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood alongside a computer-generated giant piper. But the piping is very much Cassells's. ...............Read the full interview:http://www.scottishbagpiper.co.uk/index_files/page0001.html


	From “The Darkness” to “Harry Potter” - read how The Scotsman summarises the career of Scottish Bagpiper’s Stuart Cassells... From “The Darkness” to “Harry Potter” - read how The Scotsman summarises the career of Scottish Bagpiper’s Stuart Cassells... Harry Potter and the Piper by Jim Gilchrist STUART CASSELLS, DEMON PIPER AND bagpipe entrepreneur, seems poised to make quite a name for himself - thanks, in part, to the forces of Darkness, and Harry Potter. The 26-year-old Glasgow-based piper, who will perform at the Scots Trad Music Awards concert next month, upped his profile back in January when a fiery performance in the face of stiff competition saw him become BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of 2005. The award came with a deal to record his first CD, which sees him in the studio this month. Until now, Cassells has made a living playing for weddings and corporate events. Distinctly non-traditional developments, however, include joining glam-rockers The Darkness on a track for their second album, due for release on 28 November, and powering an idiosyncratic little number called Do the Hippogriff, which features during the Hogwarts Yule Ball sequence in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It's performed on screen by "the Weird Sisters", featuring Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead's Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood alongside a computer-generated giant piper. But the piping is very much Cassells's. ...............Read the full interview: http://www.scottishbagpiper.co.uk/index_files/page0001.html

Albums:

Blown Away

Gaining fame as frontman of folk rockers The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, this CD is Scots piping wiz Stuart Cassells' acclaimed debut album.