Our management team is comprised of genuinely gifted minds, all focussed on one thing - a better pipe band movement in New Zealand.
Allister was a Board member and President of the Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands' Association and is now their Executive Officer. He has a passionate interest in youth recruitment and development for all celtic music art forms. He is a founding member of the New Zealand Piping Centre, founding member and past Chairman of the Southland Piping and Drumming Development Trust (14 years), which fund fulltime world class tutors in the Southland region, Chairs the RSPBA Oceania World Solo Drumming Championships, and is President of the Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands' Association Otago Centre.
Mark became Contest Group Leader in 2019 after two years of shadowing the previous leader, Kerry Marshall.
He has had 25 years association with the band movement, including as a drum major, and in administrative roles, as well as supporting his wife Karen (piper and previous Executive Officer of the RNZPBA) and daughter (tenor drummer for Canterbury Caledonian G1).
Mark has served 15 years with LandSAR from active field member, Management Team involvement and Group Secretary.
Chris has been a piper in the local scene since the early 1970s, twice being P/M of St Andrew’s College, then joining Canterbury Caledonian Society PB, and assuming the P/M role through the 1990s.
He joined the RNZPBA management team in 2001 with the Publication and Communications portfolio, and has been editor of NZ Pipeband magazine through most of the last 20 years.
Chris produced the Associations first website, which was latterly developed and hosted by other providers, and has developed and managed the membership database both manually, and online.
He has been on the national adjudication panel since 2002, and officiated at several contests in both NZ and Australia. In the early 2000s, he was musical director of the St Andrew’s College Pipe Band, plus has directed the Canterbury Caledonian Society Grade 2 band.
He was awarded a Life Membership of the RNZPBA in 2021.
Geoff lives in Christchurch and is no stranger to the pipe band movement. Starting piping when he was 13 in Dunedin, Geoff has amassed a number of high-profile solo and pipe band prizes, including the Silver Chanter at the annual Labour Weekend competitions. He was the Pipe Major of the City of Dunedin Pipe Band for seven years, winning the grade two New Zealand championships on three occasions. He currently competes with the current New Zealand champions, the Canterbury Caledonian Society Pipe Band.
Geoff has been passionate about piping and drumming education from early on, teaching at Summer Schools for over two decades and a regular at seminars around the country. Most recently he led the Mentor Programme for the RNZPBA, and is excited to take on the responsibility of Group Leader of the Education portfolio.
Scott has been involved in the pipe band movement most of his life.
As a former leading drummer and player in the Canterbury Caledonian Society Pipe Band he has enjoyed much success at both a National and International level.
He is a past President of the Canterbury Caledonian Society and is a Life Member of both the Society and the Band.
He is currently President of the Scottish Society of NZ Pipe Band and this along with his involvement in the RNZPBA is motivated by providing leadership and guidance where he best can, using the skills he has acquired throughout his pipe banding and business life.
