About Balquhidder Music

Established in 1991, the Balquhidder Music catalog contains an extensive list of brass pedagogical and chamber music works by leading international performers and teachers. That list includes Bai Lin, William Bing, Irving Bush, Charles Fricke, Jon Gresham, Clifford Lillya, Rob Roy McGregor, Anthony Plog, Mark Ponzo, Roy Poper, Bobby Shew, Pierre Thibaud and William Vacchiano.

The mission of Balquhidder Music is to publish and leave a legacy of the finest publications for trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba. Among its outstanding list of contributing editors are James Bovinette (Arban), Allan Dean, Mark Dulin, Michael Ewald (Bach and Telemann), Mario Guarneri (Schumann), John Korak (Concone), David Mathie, Gordon Mathie (Telemann), Raymond Mase (American Brass Quintet Series), Rob Roy McGregor (Fricke), Neil Mueller, and Ralph Sauer (Bach and Brahms).

Composers of solo and ensemble works (either original or in arrangement) include C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach, David Baldwin, L. Beethoven, Lauren Bernofsky, Johannes Brahms, Kevin Brown, Paul Dukas, Richard Halligan, Jacob Handl, Paul Kirby, Nick Lane, Frederick Lesemann, Mark Lewis, Rob Roy McGregor, Kevin McKee, Greg McLean, Maceo Pinkard, Henry Purcell, Giacomo Puccini, Robert Schumann, Joey Sellers, G. P. Telemann, Britton Theurer, J. Thielmans.

Founder and President, Rob Roy McGregor, brings thirty-five years of major orchestral trumpet experience (Baltimore Symphony, eleven years, Los Angeles Philharmonic, twenty-four years) to the music publishing company.

The name "Balquhidder", a word of Gaelic origin, derives from the area in Scotland where that most famous MacGregor, Rob Roy, lived and is buried.