BIOGRAPHY
Christian Hunter has been playing the bagpipes since 2000. He learned to play as a Fighting Scot while attending The College of Wooster, and continued pursuing his passion for the pipes by playing competitively.
Throughout the years, Christian has played with the MacMillan Pipe Band and the 87th Cleveland Pipe Band, and the North Coast Pipe Band. He has competed regionally with each of those bands at different levels.
In 2010, while playing with North Coast, the band earned the titles of U.S. Champions and Midwest Champion Supreme, and later that year, traveled to compete at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, placing 4th overall in grade 4A. Christian has also performed with North Coast as the headline band for several years at the Dublin Irish Festival in Columbus, Ohio.
The 2017 competition season was completed with the North Coast Pipe Band in its Grade 3 band with an undefeated season in the U.S. Also in 2017, the band traveled to Scotland once again to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships in grade 3B.
Christian has performed solo for more than 250 weddings, funerals, corporate and private celebrations and special events around the country. He performs regularly for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and has previously been sponsored by both Red Bull and Anheuser Busch, with
appearances on local television morning programs.
Some of Christian's highlighted solo events include playing for a private event in front of Madam Pauline Hunter of Hunterston, Praefectus Venatorus Regis, the Chief of Clan Hunter on her visit to Washington, D.C. in 2018.
In 2021, Christian was given the designation of Pipe Major of Clan Hunter by Madam Pauline Hunter of Hunterson. Also in 2021, he was featured by Guinness in a St. Patrick's Day commercial. Click here to see the commercial.
Additionally, he has performed for the Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church, as well as performing in the Church of the Presidents, St. John's Church, Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.
Additionally, he has performed in the Chagrin Arts' Annual Music Crawl and is the official bagpiper for an annual “Tartan Day” event in Cleveland and for Dirty Phoenix Productions’ Annual “Burns Night” at Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland.
