Sean Patrick Regan (SPR) is a third-generation bagpiper. A student of his father, Patrick Regan, SPR completed a degree in Music Education (Summa Cum Laude) with the Bagpipe as his primary instrumental focus at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. After teaching at the middle/high school level and privately for several years, he has returned to higher education as the Pipe Band Director at Edinboro, and is concurrently pursuing the Master of Music in Bagpipe Performance at Carnegie Mellon University.
Professor Regan has been at the top of American solo bagpipe competition for over a decade, and is a former national and world solo piping champion. He has played in pipe bands at the Midwest, North American, Canadian, European, and World Pipe Band championships, winning the Midwest and Canadian championships. He has taught as a guest instructor at the College of Piping, in Glasgow, and currently instructs the Balmoral Pipes & Drums and the Grand Prairie Firefighters Pipes & Drums. He competes actively as a member of both the Balmoral P&D and the Carnegie Mellon University Pipe Band, and performs nationally with The Rogues, “America’s Celtic Band.”
SPR is featured as a soloist and ensemble member on several albums, including “A Band Transformed”(2006), by Steel Thistle Pipes & Drums, “Début”(2011), by The Great Lakes Pipe Band, “An Afternoon on the Pipes”(in post-production), by himself, “Chimera X”(2013), through Edinboro University, “That’s Too Bad”(2018), with Apologetix, and most recently “25… and LIVE!”(2019), with The Rogues. Additionally, he is published in “The Voice,” the quarterly publication of the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, as a correspondent on bagpipe education. He is sponsored in part by Lindsey Bagpipes Company, Lone Star Piper, and the Saint Andrew’s Society of Pittsburgh.
Additional information may be found at these websites:
www.sprbagpiper.com
www.therogues.com
www.balmoralpipesanddrums.org