Our Judges
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Dr. Jack Lee
Dr. Jack Lee, MSM, ranks as one of the top pipers of all time. There is little in the piping world that Jack has not won competitively both in solos and as Pipe Sgt. of SFU. With the development of his BagpipeMusic.com music library, Jack is an expert on the music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Jack is a regular judge with the RBC and his experience in all things piping related has resulted in our competition growing over the years.
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Dr. Terry Lee
Dr. Terry Lee, MSM, is known in the pipe band world as one of the all-time great Pipe Majors. As the founding PM of the world-famous Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (SFU), he ranks as one of the elite pipers of the 21st century. This will be the sixth year the RBC has benefited from Terry’s judging expertise.
Ryan Murray
​Ryan Murray is a professional bagpiper based in California who began piping at the age of 14. Ryan has performed with top level bands in the US and Canada and has competed at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland multiple times since 2003. As a soloist Ryan competes at the professional level and has won numerous awards including placing second in the Atlantic Canada Piobaireachd Challenge Gold Medal, and winning the Eagle Pipers Competition and the Angus MacDonald
Championship in San Diego, California.
Outside of piping, Ryan is a professional orchestral conductor, and is currently the Artistic Director and Conductor of Music in the Mountains, the Principal Pops Conductor of the Modesto Symphony, the Music Director and Conductor of the Auburn Symphony, the Director of Opera and Orchestra at CSU, Sacramento and the Conductor of the Sacramento Youth
Symphony and a member of the Disney/ICM approved conductor’s list. Ryan is a past winner of the prestigious Ansbacher Fellowship for Conductors with the Vienna Philharmonic as well as the winner of the American Prize in Opera Conducting.
Liz Tubbs
Liz (Payne) Tubbs learned to play the Great Highland Bagpipe as a youngster in Dunedin, a long-time Scottish community on Florida's West Coast. Thereafter, Liz played with the Prince Charles Pipe Band from 1984-1989. With fellow bandsman Clutch Sutton, Liz formed the City of Sacramento Pipe Band in 1989 and served as its Pipe Major and musical director from 1989-2023. She is a highly recognized teacher and judge in the Pipe Band Community. Liz recently retired from her 20-year career as an instrumental music teacher in the Visual and Performing Arts Academy at Sheldon High School in Elk Grove California. We are grateful to Liz for her judging and her never-ending support of the Redding Bagpipe Competition.