

Prior to accepting his teaching position at St. Nick is a member of both the EUSPBA Judges Panel and the Music Board. He has played in multiple Grade 1 bands, most recently with the Toronto Police Pipe Band.

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Performance highlights include winning the Braemar Gold Medal (2016), Piobaireachd Society Canadian Gold Medal (2015), Overall A Grade Winner at the SPSL Contest in London (2016), Overall EUSPBA Professional award (2015, 2016), The Livingstone Invitational winner (2016), the Silver Medal at the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban (2016), and the B MSR at the Northern Meeting in Inverness (2016). He received a BFA in Music Performance under Alasdair Gillies and Jimmy McIntosh from Carnegie-Mellon University. Nick Hudson teaches piping full-time at St. Whilst pursuing his performance degree, Nick was also in the Music Education Certification program at Carnegie-Mellon and is currently Instructor of Bagpipes at St Thomas Episcopal School in Houston and also maintains a private bagpipe lesson studio.īIO_ In addition to highland piping, Nick is an active performer of border/smallpipes and whistles. Performances have taken him to Scotland, France, Canada and across the US.

He also holds the Graduate Certificate from the Institute of Piping, the highest certification possible for bagpipe performance. An experienced performer, Nick is well versed in both traditional and contemporary piping and, as a Professional grade bagpiper, has won many prizes in solo competition. He is the third ever graduate of the Bagpipe Performance degree at Carnegie-Mellon University. Nicholas Hudson is a professional, conservatory-trained bagpipe musician and instructor based in the Houston area.
