Matthew Welch

About the artist

American composer and Great Highland Bagpipe player born in 1976. Having studied composition under Barry Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton and Great Highland Bagpipe under Colin MacLellan, Jack Lee, Angus MacLellan & Andrew Wright, he holds a BA from Simon Fraser University (1999) and an MA from Wesleyan University (2001). He has composed in a range of styles, from traditionalist bagpipe music to electronic pieces for solo to ensemble to orchestral arrangements

Top songs

  1. Bottom's Up
  2. Enantiomorphs
  3. Blues for Seraut
  4. Siubhal Turnlar I
  5. Traversing Mad-Hatten, Opus 27
  6. Siubhal Turnlar II
  7. Siubhal Turnlar VI
  8. Symphony of Drones, Opus 44
  9. Siubhal Turnlar V
  10. Siubhal Turnlar IV
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  1. Siubhal Turnlar III
  2. Siubhal Turnlar VII
  3. Gorgamor The Giant Gecko
  4. The Self and the Other I
  5. High Street
  6. The Self and the Other II
  7. The Self and the Other III
  8. Duo-el for Two Bagpipes
  9. Cherede Otroenhe, for Bagpipe and Orchestra, Opus 46
  10. Bagpipe Quintet
  11. Salute on the Birth of Rory Mor
  12. Bottoms Up
  13. Song 2
  14. Symphony of Drones #1
  15. High Street 2005
  16. Pak Gusti Aji
  17. Song 1
  18. Song 1 2003
  19. Bottoms Up 2005
  20. Song 2 2004
  21. Gorgamor The Giant Gecko 2005
  22. Pak Gusti Aji 2006
  23. Canntaireachd Masolah: An Opera in Idioglossia, Pt. 1
  24. Lad: I. —
  25. Composition No. 77c
  26. Canntaireachd Masolah: An Opera in Idioglossia, Pt. 2
  27. Lad: Ii. —
  28. Canntaireachd Masolah - An Opera In Idioglossia Pt.1
  29. Composition No. 118a
  30. [-(+/-)] for Three Bagpipes
  31. Canntaireachd Masolah - An Opera In Idioglossia Pt.3
  32. Canntaireachd Masolah: An Opera in Idioglossia, Pt. 4
  33. Wolfe: Lad - Part 1
  34. Canntaireachd Masolah - An Opera In Idioglossia Pt.2
  35. The Upside Down World (For Glenn Branca)
  36. Canntaireachd Masolah: An Opera in Idioglossia, Pt. 3
  37. Composition No. 97e
  38. Siubhal Turnlar, Pt. 1
  39. [-(+/-)]
  40. Duo-el
  41. Canntaireachd Masolah - An Opera In Idioglossia Pt.4
  42. Siubhal Turnlar, Pt. 5
  43. Composition 119g
  44. The Self and the Other, Pt. 1
  45. Siubhal Turnlar, Pt. 2
  46. Siubhal Turnlar, Pt. 6
  47. Siubhal Turnlar i: For String Quartet
  48. Scarce Of Atari
  49. The Self and the Other, Pt. 3
  50. Siubhal Turnlar, Pt. 3
  51. Siubhal Turnlar iv: For String Quartet
  52. Composition No. 106a
  53. Composition No. 99e
  54. Wolfe: Lad - Part 2
  55. Cherede Otroenhe for bagpipe and orchestra, opus 46
  56. The Self and the Other, Pt. 2
  57. Composition No. 8h
  58. Siubhal Turnlar, Pt. 7
  59. Siubhal Turnlar, Pt. 4
  60. Composition No. 106b
  61. Self/ Non-Self and Luminosity in the Bardo, a Concerto for Harp and Ensemble
  62. Siubhal Turnlar ii: For String Quartet
  63. Welch: Seven Eruptions for Eddie Van Halen
  64. The Self And The Other i: Mirrors [A Double Concerto For Bagpipe, Piano & Percussion Ensemble]
  65. Composition No. 26f
  66. Arcticodactylus
  67. Composition No. 118e
  68. The Academic Quadrangle
  69. Siubhal Turnlar iii: For String Quartet
  70. Siubhal Turnlar v: For String Quartet
  71. Blind Piper's Obstinacy
  72. Ornamental
  73. Enantiomorphs: For Four Clarinets
  74. Siubhal Turnlar vii: For String Quartet
  75. I. —
  76. Indosax
  77. The Self And The Other iii: Heraclitus [A Double Concerto For Bagpipe, Piano & Percussion Ensemble]
  78. Siubhal Turnlar vi: For String Quartet
  79. Overture
  80. Self/Non-Self and Luminosity in the Bardo.
  81. Academic Quadrangle
  82. Gorgamor the Giant Gecko (Solo Guitar) [feat. Brian Dooley]
  83. Eudimorphodon
  84. Hodinotra Chelalhodin
  85. Borges and the Other, I. Dreams of My Double
  86. Naturally, the Egg
  87. The Self And The Other ii: Memory [A Double Concerto For Bagpipe, Piano & Percussion Ensemble]
  88. Self / Non-Self and Luminosity in the Bardo
  89. Barbarella
  90. The Favrile Opalescence (Concerto for Bagpipe and Percussion) [feat. Paul Vaillancourt & Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble]

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