J. Reid Maxwell

John Reid Maxwell (born 29 January 1961) is a pipe band drummer and current leading drummer of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. Maxwell is the first person to have led the drum corps of two different bands to victory at the World Pipe Band Championships.

Life Maxwell was born in Kirkcaldy and raised in Bowhill, Cardenden, Fife, Scotland,

Band career As a teenager, he won the World Pipe Band Championships twice and the World Drum Corps Championships with the Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band.

He was leading drummer of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band when it won the World Championships in 1987, becoming the first pipe band based outside Scotland to do so. Subsequently, the SFUPB won the World Championships a total of six times. Maxwell helped start the "Piping Hot Summer Drummer" instructional program in 1994 as a drumming-only school. It has now been running for more than twenty years as a summer camp for pipers, drummers and highland dancers of all ages and levels.

In New Zealand, he has taught many drummers and judged competitions.

In 2015 he received a BC Community Achievement Award.