University of Strathclyde Recital Challenge 2009. 

Alan Bevan

Alan Bevan has won several major prizes in Scotland, including the Gold Medal (2008) Silver Medal (1994) and the ‘A’ Strathspey and Reel (1998) at the Northern Meeting. In 2003 he won both the Jig at the Argyllshire Gathering and the Hornpipe & Jig at the Northern Meeting. More recently, he was the overall winner at the 2009 Donald MacLeod Memorial Invitational.

Formerly P/M of the grade 1 Abbotsford Police Pipe Band, Alan has been a member of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band since 1995. He has won the World Championship with the band on several occasions, most recently in 2008. Alan has performed with the SFU Pipe Band at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, the Sidney Opera House and Carnegie Hall.

Alan is in demand throughout North America as a teacher, adjudicator, and pipe band clinician. In May 2008, he was called to the British Columbia Bar and he now practices as a barrister. Alan lives in Abbotsford, BC.