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{{AfC submission|t||ts=20240809183153|u=Beenano|ns=118|demo=}}<!-- Important, do not remove this line before article has been created. -->{{Infobox person
| name = Michael Grey
| citizenship = Canadian
'''Michael Grey''' is a Canadian musician, composer, and author. He is known for highland bagpipe music. He is the Pipe Major of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=1969-12-31 |title=Grey tests hits in retrospective CD |url=https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/Grey-tests-hits-in-retrospective-CD/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=pipes{{!}}drums |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Slavin |first=John |date=2022-06-13 |title=June 2006: Michael Grey's Shimla Hum |url=https://bagpipe.news/2022/06/13/june-2006-michael-greys-shimla-hum/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Bagpipe News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=A Bryan Greenwood Production music, videos, stats, and photos |url=https://www.last.fm/music/A+Bryan+Greenwood+Production |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Last.fm |language=en}}</ref>▼
| occupation = Musician
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▲'''Michael Grey''' is a Canadian musician, [[composer]], and author. He is known for highland bagpipe music. He is the Pipe Major of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=1969-12-31 |title=Grey tests hits in retrospective CD |url=https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/Grey-tests-hits-in-retrospective-CD/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=pipes{{!}}drums |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Slavin |first=John |date=2022-06-13 |title=June 2006: Michael Grey's Shimla Hum |url=https://bagpipe.news/2022/06/13/june-2006-michael-greys-shimla-hum/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Bagpipe News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=A Bryan Greenwood Production music, videos, stats, and photos |url=https://www.last.fm/music/A+Bryan+Greenwood+Production |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Last.fm |language=en}}</ref>
Grey published seven volumes of pipe music and has received various awards. He is also a teacher and workshop leader.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=FolkWorld CD Reviews |url=http://folkworld.eu/2/CDs2d.html |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=folkworld.eu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=MusicMoz - Releases: Compilations: G: Great Highland Bagpipe, The - In Modern Times Piping Progressions |url=https://musicmoz.org/Releases/Compilations/G/Great_Highland_Bagpipe,_The_-_In_Modern_Times_Piping_Progressions/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=musicmoz.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Release group “The Composer’s Series, Vol.1” by Michael Grey - MusicBrainz |url=https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/75729da3-0a71-4c7c-94a1-8a760b56f762 |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=musicbrainz.org}}</ref>
== Early life and education ==
Grey was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He received his early lessons at the age of thirteen from George Walker of the 48th Highlanders of Canada and was a member of the regiment's [[pipe band]] for three years.
He also studied under John Wilson and received tuition from [[Bill Livingstone]], John Walsh, and Captain John A MacLellan MBE.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/16234658-Various-An-Evening-of-Champions</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Michael Grey {{!}} Piper {{!}} Composer {{!}} Arranger {{!}} Pipe Tunes |url=https://pipetunes.ca/composer/michael-grey/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=pipetunes.ca |language=en-CA}}</ref>
== Career ==
Grey was a founding member of the 1987 World Pipe Band Champion 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band. He left that band in 1995 and became a pipe major of the [[Peel Regional Police]] (PRP) Pipe Band.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Review: ‘Live in Ireland 2016’, at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall – Piping Press |url=https://pipingpress.com/2016/02/01/review-live-in-ireland-2016-at-glasgows-royal-concert-hall/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=pipingpress.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Grey |url=http://www.dunaber.com/michael-grey/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Dunaber Music}}</ref>
In 1999, Grey left the PRP Pipe Band to focus on solo piping. In the same year, he won the Scottish Piping Society of London's (UK) Strachan Cup and was also the aggregate winner of the British Columbia Pipers' Association Annual Gathering.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Slavin |first=John |date=2023-09-08 |title=Michael Grey appointed Pipe Major of 78th Fraser Highlanders |url=https://bagpipe.news/2023/09/08/michael-grey-is-new-pipe-major-of-78th-fraser-highlanders/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Bagpipe News |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2003, Grey consulted with composer [[John Beckwith (composer)|John Beckwith]] on Beckwith's commission for pipes and [[orchestra]], A New Pibroch. Grey performed the piece's premiere in March 2003; the piece aired in June of that year on CBC Radio 2.
Grey has seven published books of music and nine solo recordings, including the December 2009 release Unqualified Favorites. His books were published in different time spans from 1989 to 2018, and his sixth solo recording, Shimla Hum, was released on May 8, 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio Scotland - Pipeline, Spotlight on Canada: in Conversation with Michael Grey |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011s4g |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=Mike Grey and the 78th Fraser Highlanders/ 100 Pipers Pipe Band – Even More Info – Piping Press |url=https://pipingpress.com/2023/09/13/mike-grey-and-the-78th-fraser-highlanders-100-pipers-pipe-band-even-more-info/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=pipingpress.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Great Highland Bagpipe |url=https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-highland-bagpipe-emc |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}}</ref>
In October 2007, Grey joined the premier grade [[Toronto Police Pipe Band]] as music director and [[Pipe major|Pipe Sergeant]] and left the band in September 2013. He was a member of the [[Glasgow Police Pipe Band]] from November 2013 to August 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=067: Michael Grey – Pipers Persuasion |url=https://www.piperspersuasion.com/michael-grey/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
On January 30, 2016, he performed as part of the Live in Ireland 87 project at [[Glasgow Royal Concert Hall]], an initiative he directed with the Celtic Connections music festival. The concert was recorded live by the BBC for broadcast.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Michael Grey – Celtic Life International |url=https://celticlifeintl.com/michael-grey/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Development |first=PodBean |title=The Big Rab Show Podcast. Episode 246. Michael Grey {{!}} The Big Rab Show Podcast |url=https://bigrabshow.podbean.com/e/the-big-rab-show-podcast-episode-246-michael-grey/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=bigrabshow.podbean.com |language=en}}</ref>
In September 2023, Grey was appointed Pipe Major of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, one of five grade-one bands in North America.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Grey's collection - Tunes for the Highland bagpipe |url=https://www.sonerien.com/contemporain/656-partitions-grey.html |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Ti ar Sonerien - La maison des Sonneurs |language=fr-fr}}</ref>
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== Awards ==
Grey has won the [[North American Championship]] four times, the overall title at the BC Piper's Association Annual Gathering twice, the Piobaireachd Society Gold Medal, and that venue's March, Strathspey & Reel and Former Winners' MSR on the same day. In 1989, <ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-01-31 |title=Grey makes Tunes For Everyone available free for all |url=https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/grey-makes-tunes-for-everyone-available-free-for-all/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=pipes{{!}}drums |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7" /> he won the aggregate championship at the [[Cowal Highland Gathering]]. He has also won the Strachan Cup for March, Strathspey & Reel, playing at the Scottish Piping Society of London (UK) competitions. Grey has won the professional Ontario Championship Supreme awards for classical (pibroch) and light music seventeen times. In 1995, he won the Toronto Piper's Society Knock-Out final. Grey again won this testing event for the third year in 2003.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
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