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In 2014, Ailis joined Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band and won the Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championships under the direction of Ryan Canning in 2015. During her eight seasons with Brechin, Ailis enjoyed success in the solos as a junior and was a member of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland from 2009 to 2015. Ailis joined her local pipe band in Brechin and started competing in the 2006 season in Grade 4A, progressing quickly with the bandвЂ™s promotions to Grade 3B and Grade 3A in consecutive years.

She started learning the pipes at the age of 9 and was taught by her father Alec Sutherland. Recently Steven lead the group in a live performance at the ScotвЂ™s Music Trad Awards as well as a celebration of Gordon DuncanвЂ™s work collaborating with Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton at the Perth Concert Hall.ДЄilis is a piper and flute player from Kirriemuir, Angus. He has also served as Musical Director of the Gordon Duncan Experience which is a trad big band project involving young people from various genres. StevenвЂ™s вЂBystanderвЂ™ project culminated in a suite of 5 pieces fusing impressionism with old and modern folk practices which was performed as part of Celtic Connections and released as an album. In 2014 he took part in Creative ScotlandвЂ™s вЂ20for14вЂ™ project in which 20 writers across the arts were commissioned to create art which responded to GlasgowвЂ™s hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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Steven has also kept busy as a writer whose portfolio ranges form solo bagpipe repertoire through to scoring for full Symphony Orchestra. Over the years Rura have collected many of the coveted awards in the folk scene including вЂњUp and Coming Act of the YearвЂќ at the MG Alba Traditional Music Awards 2012, nominees for вЂFolk Band of the YearвЂ 2013 and were nominees BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for the coveted вЂHorizonвЂ award and are this years winners of вЂLive Act of the YearвЂ™ and they were nominated for вЂAlbum of the YearвЂ™ in the MG Alba Traditional Music Awards. With three heralded albums, Rura affirm their position as one of ScotlandвЂ™s leading instrumental groups. StevenвЂ™s main project RURA are a multi award-winning act and one of ScotlandвЂ™s most sought-after folk bands.

Tryst have created a number of special performances, including appearing at the MG Alba Trad Awards, the annual piping concert at Celtic Connections, a special Celtic Connections concert featuring large scale commissions from each member of the ensemble, and the William Kennedy Piping Festival. Steven is a founding member of Tryst, an ensemble of pipers/ composers exploring new writing techniques for a pipe core. Other notable musical collaborations have included working with legendary Indian musician Rakesh Chaurasia, touring south east Asia with Judy Collins, as well appearing as a soloist with the Band of the Royal Marines and the NZ Army Band. He has also taken the stage as a soloist with quite a few orchestral line-ups including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Royal Northern College of MusicвЂ™s Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera and performed with Opera North in the U.K.вЂ™s first Opera to include bagpipes in the score. He has appeared at some of the worldвЂ™s most renowned folk festival stages including Heb Celt, Celtic Connections- at The Old Fruit Market in Glasgow- and Tonder festival in Denmark. Steven has performed in large scale line-ups such as The Unusual Suspects to intimate solo spots in chamber concerts. In 2020 Steven was appointed to the role of Director of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, bringing his wealth of performance, composition and recording experience to this challenging role.ДЇrom his beginnings as a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2008 he has set about forging a dynamic performance career across the globe from Japan, India, China to the U.S., Canada and all around Europe- including extensively touring the UK. A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Steven is perhaps best known for his work with ScotвЂ™s Trad Awards вЂLive Act of the Year 2015вЂ™ RURA. Steven is experienced with traditional piping, contemporary folk music and composition and possesses a unique style of playing which sets him apart from his peers.

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