01 HIGHLAND MEDIA

HIGHLAND MEDIA is a family-owned business partnership run by GS & RB CAMPBELL which was born out of magazine publishing in 1986.

We currently run a vibrant MUSIC and TEXT BOOK publishing firm, DUNTROON PUBLISHING, (see our internal links on the left) as well as an expanding digital magazine publishing section of our small firm and our tutorial service, THE PIPING SCHOOL.

Our best selling print book is ‘The MacCrimmon Pipers of Skye: A Tradition Under Siege’ although others such as ‘The Royal Pipers’ and ‘The Piping Legends of the MacCrimmons of Skye’ have also notched up higher than expected sales. In addition to other text books we currently have 12 pipe music books in print including the DAVID GLEN PIOBAIREACHD COLLECTION (3 volumes to date), the DUNTROON COLLECTION of HIGHLAND PIPE MUSIC (2 volumes) and the HOLYROOD COLLECTION (3 volumes) plus the new products SGOIL nam PIOBAIRE BOOK 1, LEARN TO PLAY THE BAGPIPE and MY KING HAS LANDED IN MOIDART: PIPERS OF THE FORTY FIVE. Our latest product is LET’S LEARN TO PLAY PIOBAIREACHD, a CD ROM with linked musical illustrations.

In March 2009 we launched the digital version of our magazine PIPING WORLD and very soon the success of this e-magazine, and also our re-born THE PIPING SCHOOL, meant that it was too difficult to continue two other e-magazines which have now both been discontinued (although back issues are still available). PIPING WORLD has a global readership in excess of 20,000 making it the most popular and highly read piping magazine in history.

THE PIPING SCHOOL organises piping workshops/seminars and supporting recitals and also has a range of tuition products available (with more to come) while our small recording label ARGYLL MUSIC has been growing over the last year - (22 years after we produced our first commercially recorded piping album). The latest major release is the first of the CDs in the BINNEAS IS BORERAIG series, archival Piobaireachd recordings of Malcolm Ross MacPherson.

The day-to-day running, accounts and admin is carried out by Susan Campbell while Bruce Campbell handles the publishing, distribution and musical, performance and teaching operations.