Alisdair McLaren
Alisdair McLaren is the Pipe Major of the Piper’s Trail Pipe Band, the former Pipe Major for the Grade One Glasgow Police Pipe Band, and the former director of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. After moving to Scotland from Kalamunda, Australia, in 2007 became a member of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow and in 2011 became the first West-Australian to ever win the World Pipe Band Championships as part of the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band.
Prior to his move to Scotland, McLaren attended Trinity College and was pipe major of Trinity College Pipes and Drums until 1997 when he joined the WA Police Pipe Band for 10 years.
In January 2020 McLaren resigned from his post as the Pipe Major of the Glasgow Police Pipe Band and the director of the National Youth Pipe Band in order to return to his native Australia.
