Western News: May 14, 2019

12 Tuesday May 14 2019
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Global competition for piper
• By Jess Gibson
A FULL-BLOWN line-up of
competitions is in store for
award-winning piper Campbell
Wilson.
The 16-year-old St Andrew’s
College student will
take part in the Colin Craig
Claidmeamh’mor solo piping
competition in Palmerston North
on Saturday.
The competition is an invitational
event for the top pipers in
New Zealand.
Campbell will then travel to
Dunedin two weeks later to
compete in the annual Queen’s
Birthday solo competitions,
where he will compete in the A
grade.
After that, his skills will take
him to Scotland in August
to compete in under-18
and under-23 age groups of
competition in Oban and
Inverness.
Campbell said he is “very excited”
to return to Scotland.
He has been once before
when he competed with the St
Andrew’s College Pipe Band at
the World Pipe Band Championships
and stayed on for two weeks
afterwards to compete in solo
competitions.
Since Campbell began piping
when he was nine-years-old, he
has achieved a long list of highlights
in his career.
He made history at the
Hastings Highland Games
in April when he became the
youngest ever winner of the
New Zealand Gold Medal for
Piobaireachd.
Campbell was named New
Zealand Young Piper of the Year
in October, is titled the youngest
ever winner of the Silver Chanter
March, Strathspey and Reel event
and won the under-21 New Zealand
Championship Hornpipe
and Jig in January.
During his Scotland trip in
August, Campbell will be travelling
his father, Greg Wilson, who
doubles as his tutor.
Mr Wilson is classified as one
of the top pipers in the world.
He has won 14 Gold Clasp
Piobaireachd competitions – an
event which pipers can only
compete in if they have won the
New Zealand Gold Medal for
TALENT: Greg
Wilson and his
son, Campbell
Wilson, have
both achieved
success in
their piping
careers to
date ​
Piobaireachd.
Mr Wilson has also had victory
at Bratach Gorm in London
three times, has won the premier
double march, Strathspey and
Reel multiple times, and has also
been New Zealand Solo Piping
Champion on multiple occasions,
to name a few.
“I am very grateful for the opportunity
to travel such a great
distance doing what I love with
my number one role model. He
is a world class piper, and he is
an absolutely wonderful teacher,”
Campbell said.
Mr Wilson said it is “very satisfying”
seeing Campbell do well
at piping.
“I’m absolutely proud of him,
he’s done very well from a young
age,” said Mr Wilson.
Villa Maria College
to get agricultural
SAMANTHA WILLIAMS lives
on a farm that produces rare
white truffles.
Now, the 18-year-old wants
more girls at Villa Maria College
to be interested in the agrifood
sector, so she has helped
spearhead a TeenAg club.
“Our school’s science
department has been extremely
supportive of my push to set up
the club, which is amazing,” said
Samantha, who is in year 13.
“TeenAg gives students the
opportunity to learn about the
agri-food sector and be exposed
to the variety of careers within
it.”
Villa Maria joins other
SCHOOLS
WESTERN NEWS
FARMING: Samantha Williams has started a TeenAg club.
girls’ schools in the city which
have TeenAg clubs, including
Christchurch Girls’ High School,
St Margaret’s College and Rangi
Ruru Girls’ School.
“The establishment of this new
club means four of the six girls’
schools in Christchurch now have
TeenAg clubs,” said NZ Young
Farmers territory manager David
Highsted.
Samantha has been studying
agriculture and pasture
production by correspondence.
She’s passionate about the
opportunities in the sector and
plans to study a Bachelor of
Agricultural Science at Lincoln
University.
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