The Masters Solo Drumming

02/02/2026

If you attended our first Masters Solo Drumming on Saturday - we want to hear from you! Please fill out the audience feedback survey below:

https://forms.gle/6dEUrzTjBFgvyxk67

📸: Graeme Peters Photography

31/01/2026

Masters 2026 Results:

Overall:

1st - Steven McWhirter
2nd - William Glenholmes
3rd - Jake Jørgensen

MSR:

1st - Steven McWhirter
2nd - William Glenholmes
3rd - Jake Jørgensen

Medley:

1st - Steven McWhirter
2nd - William Glenholmes
3rd - Jake Jørgensen

30/01/2026

NEW VENUE:

The National Piping Centre at Otago Street has very kindly let us into the venue for tomorrow.

All tickets will be valid, shown upon entry.

IF YOU ARE STILL TO BUY A TICKET - PLEASE DO SO IN PERSON TOMORROW AND NOT VIA THE CCA WEBSITE.

30/01/2026

We have just been made aware of the CCA closure. We were not informed prior to it going public.

We are currently trying to organise an alternate venue - please bare with us.

30/01/2026

In a little over 24 hours the 2026 Masters Solo Drumming Championships will be underway!

Still some time to get tickets using the link in the comments! 🥁🏆

25/01/2026

Our organiser, Cam on The Drum Score this morning for a chat about this year's Masters Solo Drumming Championship!

Hear all about the inaugural "The Masters Solo Drumming" competition. Learn what it's all about and how it's come to be, and about the legend behind it.

23/01/2026

A massive thank you to the The Drum Score for sponsoring our Medley trophy! They'll be at the contest doing some interviews so make sure you say hi!

You can find The Drum Score here:

https://linktr.ee/thedrumscore

22/01/2026

Masters Solo Drumming 2026 Draw

21/01/2026

Our Double MSR trophy is very kindly sponsored by Drum Score Editor!

Drum Score Editor is a specialised music notation software designed specifically for pipe band style drumming with features tailored to the unique requirements of that notation for snare, tenor and bass drums.

Being designed to be as least time consuming as possible to scribe scores and iterate throughout the season, or update and reuse the tune in another setting, and yet still produce clear, easy to read scores for the corps to consume it’s almost secondary that DSE has helped produce many top quality publications in multiple languages.

Fun fact🥁: 8 out of the last 10 years, the Worlds Grade 1 winning drum corps & Grade 1 Champion of Champion drum corps have DSE as their working scoring tool of choice. It’s a similar picture in Grade 2 too!

DSE creator, Alan will be at The Masters to answer any and all DSE questions - and to present our trophy!