Michael Grey received his early lessons at thirteen from George Walker of the 48th Highlanders of Canada and was a member of this illustrious band for three years. He studied under John Wilson, one of the twentieth century’s greatest players, and received extensive tuition from Bill Livingstone and John Walsh.

He has four times won the North American Championship, the overall title at the Vancouver Indoor Meet twice, the Piobaireachd Society Gold Medal and that venue’s March, Strathspey & Reel and Former Winners’ MSR on the same day and the Metro Cup.

In 1989 he won the aggregate championship at the Cowal Highland Gathering and is winner of the Scottish Piping Society of London’s Strachan Cup. He has seven- teen times won the professional Ontario Championship Supreme awards for both classical (pibroch) and light music. In 1995 he won the Toronto Pipers’ Society Knock-Out final; in 2003 he again won this testing event – for the third year in succession.

He has published seven books of pipe music, a book of essays, “Grey’s Notes on Life Around Bagpipes” (2021) and has released nine recordings.

He was a founding member of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band and was a member when they became the first non Scots band to win the Worlds in 1987.

He was P/M of the Peel Police Pipe Band from 1995-99, P/S of the Toronto Police Pipe Band from 2007-2013. He left the Glasgow Police Pipe Band (Police Federation Scotland) in 2022 after having been a guest member from 2014.

He is currently the president of The Pipers’ & Pipe Band Society of Ontario.