Former national fiddle champion Alistair McCulloch, is one of the busiest and best-known fiddlers in Scotland and is in constant demand as a performer, teacher, adjudicator and composer. He studied music at the University of Strathclyde where he graduated with first class honours. August 2009 marks the release of Alistair's much anticipated third solo album 'Four Seasons in One Day' which will coincide with his annual tour of the Scottish Highlands.

For several years Alistair was a soloist with the renowned Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, with which he performed in some of the UK 's major concert halls, including the Royal Albert Hall and Barbican, London; Birmingham Town Hall; the Ulster Hall, Belfast; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. He also works widely as a session musician having performed, toured and recorded with many Scottish artists. To date, Alistair has appeared on 35 commercial albums and regularly broadcasts for the BBC. For those of you who have wondered, yes, Alistair is the fiddler on the soundtrack of the hit BBC children's programme, Balamory.

Alistair also leads the band 'Coila' and produced the band's most recent release 'The Complete Ceilidh'. He has toured extensively, having performed in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Iceland, Norway, Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, China, Venezuela, Nigeria, Dubai, Kuwait and Qatar.

Alistair is a renowned composer and commissions have included a piece premiered at the Edinburgh Festival celebrating the life and times of the Orkney writer, George Mackay Brown, and a suite for William Grant & Sons of Glenfiddich Whisky. His first book of compositions 'The Alistair McCulloch Collection' was recently reprinted.

Alistair's teaching roles include being Scots Fiddle tutor at both the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama and the University of Strathclyde and musical director of the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra and the sensational young string group, Innovation.