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University's first bagpipe major to present senior recital

When: December 1, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Add to Calendar
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
2:30 p.m. in Louis C. Cole Auditorium-Memorial Hall

The unmistakable hum and skirl of bagpipes are integral to the soundtrack of campus life at Edinboro, where the Scottish heritage of the school's founders remains a vital part of the University identity.

Few Edinboro pipers, however, can match the energy and intensity of senior Sean Patrick Regan, and soon he'll have a claim that no piper anywhere can match: the world's first music education degree with a concentration in piping.

Regan, 24, a Pittsburgher who  expects to graduate in May, will present his senior recital, "An Afternoon on the Pipes," on Saturday, December 1, at 2:30 p.m. in the University's Cole Auditorium-Memorial Hall. Admission is free.

The recital will include both modern and classical arrangements from the piping repertoire, including the debut of an arrangement for organ and bagpipe. Regan will perform with recorded accompaniment, most of which he performed himself, including percussion and additional bagpiping.

"At any given time, you'll hear between two and four of me playing," he said.

A piper for 16 years, Regan has been performing professionally for more than a decade. In 2012 alone, he has been Grade 1 Midwest Champion, winner of the "Best of the Boro" talent show and Champion Supreme of the World Online Piping & Drumming Championship.

Regan is the youngest person, at age 19, to teach as a guest instructor at the College of Piping in Glasgow, Scotland, and the youngest to found an lead a bagpipe summer camp. The Edinboro Scottish Arts Summer Camp on the University campus, will return for a second year in July 2013.

When he isn't performing solo, Regan teaches privately, in person and via Skype, and is involved in the EUP Pipe Band, the EUP Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Great Lakes Pipe Band.

On track to release a new album in December, Regan continues into his professional career with an aim of entertaining and teaching people of all ages with an interest and passion for music and the Great Highland Bagpipe.

More information about the recital and Regan is available by emailing sprbagpiper@hotmail.com or at www.sprbagpiper.com.