Ensemble & Adjudication

The Pipe Band Australia  (PBA)  educational arm, the Australian Pipe Band College (APBC), is responsible for the training of piping and drumming adjudicators throughout the country. This Music Adjudicators Training Course is designed to provide consistency in the adjudicators’ method of approach in assessing pipe band competitions.

The Music Adjudicators Theory Exam (MATE) is one of the final stages in the Australian Pipe Band College's adjudication accreditation process.  The design of this exam is to ensure that adjudicators are adequately equipped with PBA's rules and general contest procedure to do the job of adjudication correctly and efficiently.