The MWPBA Music Board creates, facilitates and administers consistent application of competitor grading levels not only within the MWPBA, but, more importantly, across a much broader scale of associations and alliances. This is intended to have all competitors entered at an appropriate level for the overall good of the association and its membership.

All band and solo competitors wishing to change grade must petition the MWPBA Music Board for consideration. A petition form and full guidelines is available here.

This page will be periodically updated as re-grades are approved by the Music Board.  (Most recent update: September 10, 2015)

The following regrades have been approved by the MWPBA Music Board for season 2015.  Congratulations to all those upgraded!

Bands:

Grade Change Band
To Grade 3 Kansas City St. Andrews Pipe Band
To Grade 4 Brian Boru Pipe Band
Flint Scottish Pipe Band
To Grade 5 Firefighters Highland Guard of Naperville
North Shore Pipe Band Club
Omaha Pipes and Drums
Wichita Caledonian Pipes & Drums


 

Piping : Piobaireachd

Grade Change Soloist
To Open Grade Jack Williamson
To Grade 1 Tony Karcz, Christian Rhoads
To Grade 2 Griffin Hall, Angus Martin
To Grade 3 Timothy Frankhouser, Wayne Hoefler, Joseph Horwath, Erin McCoy-Hall, Kolya Sier, Thomas Stonehaven, Lauren Vanderwal


 

Piping : Light Music

Grade Change* Soloist
To Open Grade Jack Williamson
To Grade 1 Christian Rhodes, James Riddle, Wes Williams
To Grade 2 Andrew Fox, Timothy Frankhouser, Griffin Hall, Angus Martin, Erin McCoy-Hall
To Grade 3 John Bauschutz, Joseph Horwath, Liam McCrindle, Jaron Park, Mariam Riddle, Kolya Sier, Thomas Stonehaven
To Grade 4 Ethan Brand-LaBarge, Lewis Bullock, Egan Dickerson, MacKay Monson, Brian Neal, Matthew Praznowski, Colleen Tennant

* Pipers who have already competed for one complete season in either Senior Novice or Junior Novice
may automatically register in Grade 4 Light Music without approval of the Music Board.
All Practice Chanter grade pipers are automatically moved to Novice after one season.

Such automatic re-grades are not listed.

 

Drumming : Snare

Grade Change Soloist
To Open Grade Hunter Gullickson
To Grade 1 Adam Tardif
To Grade 2 Alex Baird
To Grade 3 Andrew More, Joseph Barnes-Tamari

 

Drumming : Tenor

Grade Change Soloist
To Intermediate Grace Keppel

 

Drumming : Bass

Grade Change Soloist
To Advanced --