Lindsay Davidson studied at the Reid School of Music in the University of Edinburgh - the first person in the world to finish any music academy majoring as a ‘piper. He continued his post-graduate studies with the double specialisation in composition and computer sound synthesis in 1996 and shortly afterwards started his pedagogical and performing activities founding several pipe bands and a music school for which he developed a new system of teaching piping, adopted across the world. He gave this up to spend time in Poland with his wife Irena. His 'teach yourself bagpipes' site is one result of this. He has also prepared a short teach yourself species counterpoint course.

Lindsay Davidson has held the honorary positions of Clan Piper since 1992 and from 1987 till 2001 was “Town Piper to Linlithgow” (his home town). In Autumn 2004, after a great many commissions, was appointed composer to the Court of the Baron of Ardgowan. He is also 'Musician in Residence' for the British International School of Cracow.

Lindsay has given concerts, workshops and papers all over the world. These have taken place in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.

A major part of Lindsay's activity is promoting and developing piping in the western art field. In addition to his own compositions, he has premiered pieces, composed specially for him: 'Broken Frontiers' by Jennifer Martin (1992), for double string quartet and smallpipes, conducted by Joe Cancellaro in Edinburgh, Scotland; Pieces for Gogarburn by Dee Isaacs (1998), Edinburgh, Scotland; 'Rhapsody' for borderpipes and string orchestra by Nobuya Monta (2009) conducted by Steve Ellery in London, England; 'Piece for Borderpipes' and string orchestra by Jonathan Merrett (2009) conducted by Steve Ellery in Kobe, Japan.

Website: www.LindsayDavidson.co.uk