Steven McWhirter

Steven McWhirter is a pipe band drummer from Northern Ireland. He has won multiple world championship titles as a solo performer and as part of band. He is the lead drummer for the Inveraray & District Pipe Band.

Life McWhirter was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, in 1983.

Career Band career He joined the Cullybackey Pipe Band in Northern Ireland in 1994, and also played with the Warrnambool & District Pipe Band in Australia. He played with Simon Fraser University every summer until 2008, winning the Grade 1 World Drum Corps Championship in 2004 and 2008, as well as the overall world pipe band championships in 2008. In 2014, Inveraray won its first Major at the European Championships, held in Forres.

Solo career McWhirter won the under-15 World Solo Championships in 1997 and 1998, and the World Solo Drumming Championships in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024. He currently holds the record for most consecutive World Solo Drumming Championship wins. and the Edinburgh Academy.