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Workshop / School 02/21/2014 - 02/23/2014 |
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www.atlantapipingfoundation.com
All Workshops and Events were held at our Host Hotel :
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Atlanta Marriott NW, 200 Interstate Parkway North Atlanta GA 30339 |
There was an evening of Celtic Music featuring: Jasper Coal!
Plus: There were performances by weekend workshop piping and drumming instructors!
Piping Workshop - Topics
From the Masters, for beginning, intermediate, and advanced pipers:
- Technique
- Tone and Tuning
- Light Music and Piobaireachd
- Jigs / hornpipes; strathspeys / reels
- Reeds and Bagpipe Maintenance
- Ensemble: playing, marching and placement
- Question and Answer Session
Piping Session Schedule 
Drum Workshop - Topics
From the Masters, for beginning, intermediate, and advanced drummers:
- Technique and control (Beginner and Advanced)
- Evolve from drummer to musician (Ensemble, expression)
- Marches - simple and compound time
- Dances - Strathspey / Reel; Hornpipe / Jig
- Tuning and maintenance
- Question and Answer Session
Drumming Session Schedule
2014 Workshop Instructors
JOHN CAIRNS - London, Ontario
John comes from a piping family that has a long and prestigious musical history, and is recognized today as one of the World's top bagpipers and teachers. In 1999, John achieved a feat that every piper dreams of - he became the 11th person in the history of piping and the only person from outside of Scotland to win the two Highland Society of London Gold Medals for solo piping at both Oban and Inverness, Scotland in the same year.
John has studied under the best teachers in both Canada and Scotland and as a soloist, has won numerous other major prizes, including:
- Eight Pipers' and Pipe Band Society of Ontario Champion Supreme designations
- Three North American Champion titles
- The Bratach Gorm - in London, England
- The Piobaireachd Society Canadian Gold Medal, Bar to the Gold Medal and Former Winners March, Strathspey and Reel Contest
- Three Livingstone Invitational Contests
- Three Fergus Gold Medals for Light Music
As a teacher, John holds the Institute of Piping's Senior Teacher's Certificate and has taught all over North America and in Australia. John is also an accredited evaluator for the Institute of Piping. John is the Pipe Major (director) of the Peel Regional Police Grade 1 Pipe Band from Toronto, Ontario, winners of the 2010, 2011 and 2012 North American Championships and the Pipers' and Pipe Band Society of Ontario (PPBSO) Grade 1 Champion Supreme Title. Before joining Peel, he spent twelve years with the 78th Fraser Highlanders Grade 1 Pipe Band. John's experience in Grade 1 pipe bands dates back to 1982.
John adjudicates regularly throughout North America and is an accomplished composer. He has two solo recordings to his credit which are available for purchase in our download section on our website.
TYLER FRY - Houston, Texas
Ever since Tyler was a kid back home in Kincardine, Ontario, all he wanted to do was play drums. When he looks back at the great fun he had following the Saturday night parades through the streets of his home town, it would have been impossible to predict what doors pipe band drumming would open for him. First tenor drumming at the age of 11, Tyler played with Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band under the tuition of Craig 'Hoss' Colquhoun before joining Milton Optimist Pipe Band as a snare drummer. Tyler developed a sound grounding in the mechanics of snare drumming under the tutelage of Doug Stronach.
Tyler joined the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band as a tenor drummer in 1995 at the age of 13. While at the Frasers, Tyler has won three World Best Bass Section Championships as well as numerous Canadian, United States and North American Best Bass Section titles. In solo competition, Tyler has excelled by winning every top award available in North America.
Tyler transferred to The House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band in 2004, fulfilling a childhood dream of his to play alongside Drum Major Jim Kilpatrick. He won the British Drum Corps Championships with the drum corps in his first season. In 2005, Tyler helped the band to win the top awards for both band and drum corps at the World Pipe Band Championships. Away from the band, Tyler is a qualified tenor drumming adjudicator with the PPBSO and regular master class instructor at workshops throughout North America, South America and Europe.
All of these attributes that Tyler possesses have been channeled by him into the TyFry™ company. A tireless perfectionist, Tyler personally ensures that every TyFry™ product is manufactured and presented to the highest possible standards. In short, if it's not good enough for Tyler - it's not good enough for you. The growth and development of the art form is at the centre of everything the TyFry™ brand stands for. Keen to support all things positive about tenor drumming, TyFry™ is proud to have fulfilled the role of main sponsor at prestigious competitions such as MHAF Gold Medal Solo Tenor Drumming Championship and Drumming for Drinks.
ANDREW HOINACKI - Chicago, Illinois
Andrew Hoinacki started drumming at age six and in just a few years learned tenor, bass and snare. After formative years in a junior band program, he has (since age 14) been competing with bands in Grade 1 and Grade 2 including many years as a leading drummer.
Andrew's solo accolades at the Professional level include United States Champion, MWPBA Champion Supreme, and WUSPBA Champion Supreme, along with runner-up finishes at the Agnew-Harrison Memorial and North American Championships.
Andrew has served as an adjudicator for drumming and ensemble for over a decade, is a member of the MWPBA Music Board, and a past member of the WUSPBA Music Board.
He is a native of the Chicago area, competes as a distance member of the Grade 1 LA Scots, and is a full-time drumming educator. He operates his own studio, ar2Cdrumming, as well as serving a faculty appointment for Scottish and Regimental styles of drumming at St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Wisconsin where he is now based.
His well-rounded experience, down-to-earth approach, and very successful track record have made him a sought-after instructor for all forms of pipe band drumming, band coaching, summer schools, group lectures, and for his musical compositions.
JOHN FISHER - Vancouver, British Colombia
John Fisher is one of the most versatile players and educators of our lifetime. His career has spanned over three decades dividing his passion between drum set and pipe band genres. He is a former North American Champion and was the lead drummer of the City of Victoria Pipe Band, member of the Shotts & Dykehead Drum Corps under the direction of the legendary Alex Duthart, and former lead drummer of the 78th Fraser Highlanders of Ontario Pipe Band.
Currently, John is the lead drummer of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band. In 2008, the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band, comprised of world-class players, was the subject of an award-winning documentary by John MacDonald. John's other 'passion' is drum set. He is both a master player and educator. He was a former faculty member at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles where he also performed as a studio session drummer. His reputation as a drum set player has brought many famous drummers to his doorstep including Grammy, Billboard Magazine, American Music, MTV music award winners as well as Modern Drummer Magazine poll winners.
ANDREW CARLISLE - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Andrew Carlisle is originally from Ballygowan, County Down, Northern Ireland. He is one of the world's leading soloists and has won numerous prizes including, the Gillies Cup for Piobaireachd at London, the A Grade Strathspey and Reel at Oban, the Senior Piobaireachd and overall at Cowal, the US Gold Medal for Piobaireachd and Light Music at Winter Storm, the MacCrimmon Trophie at Lorient, the Gordon Duncan Memorial at Glasgow's Celtic Connections, and three Senior All-Ireland titles.
Andrew has been an active member of current grade one World Pipe Band Champions Field Marshal Montgomery for 11 years, sharing in the success of over 30 major championship wins, including 5 world titles.
In 2010, Andrew was appointed Professor of Music and Director of Piping at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. In just under three years, he has transformed the Carnegie Mellon University Pipes and Drums into a successful Grade 3 band.
JIMMY McINTOSH, MBE - South Carolina
Jimmy McIntosh was born in Dundee, Scotland and now resides in South Carolina. As a piper, he was instructed by PM Willie Ross and Donald MacLeod and later R.U. Brown and R.B. Nicol. He has won first prizes at Inverness, Oban, Braemar, Skye and the first Glenfiddich Championship (Grant's Invitational).
Jimmy was a piper with the Cameron Highlanders from 1939-49. He co-founded the Balmoral summer schools with George Balderose in 1978, and served as President of EUSPBA from 1991-1994.
Jimmy was awarded the MBE for services to piping, in 1994. He created the world's first B.A. degree program in bagpipe music at Carnegie-Mellon University while an instructor there. His students include Mike Cusack and Mike Rogers who have won major piping competitions in Scotland. In 2002, he was awarded the Balvenie Medal for services to piping. He is married to piper Joyce McIntosh. (Biographical information from BagpipeJourney.com, used with permission.)
ROY JACK BARBEE - Atlanta, Georgia
Roy Barbee has been drumming most of his life. Roy has played in symphony orchestras, marching bands, symphonic bands, U. S. Army bands, combos, pit orchestras (and sometimes the "pits") , country music shows and Scottish bagpipe bands. He toured with Sonny James from 1977 to 1984 as one of the Southern Gentleman. In 1990, Roy was the ranked first among grade one snare drum soloists in the Eastern United States Bagpipe Association (EUSPBA).
Roy graduated from Odessa High School, The Naval School of Music and Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Music Degree. Roy has taught band and orchestra in public and private schools as well as private lessons for students from ages five to 75. He has also organized and taught in summer band camps and has held workshops for music educators and students, including an introduction to Scottish side drumming for the EUSPBA Southern Branch workshop. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia where he plays with the John Mohr MacKintosh Pipes and Drums and the Atlanta Wind Symphony. Roy's interest is teaching rhythm and introducing drummers to the Scottish idiom.
MICHAEL COLE - Chicago, Illinois
Michael Cole began his pipe band career in 1987. In addition to bass drumming, Mike has experience as a lead drummer as well as a tenor drummer. In 1998 he won the "Best Bass" award at the World Pipe Band Championships in Grade Two. His bass sections have won five best bass awards at the North American Pipe Band Championships including Grade One in 2007, and 2011.
Mike won the Midwest Highland Arts Gold Medal in the professional bass drumming competition in Kansas City in 2007 and 2013. In 2010 Mike was a guest bass drummer for Inveraray and District Pipe Band and played all of the major contests with them in Scotland that season. He has served as a drum technician and consultant to some of the world's top level competitive bands, including Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, Inveraray and District, Dowco Triumph Street, and the Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band. A professional educator, Mike instructs at workshops, seminars, and summer camps in North America and Scotland. He is the owner of Twisted Thistle, manufacturer of The Twisted Thistle bass drum mallet series. Mike currently plays the bass for The Greater Midwest Pipe Band and he is a featured artist with Premier Percussion.
CHRIS APPS - Baltimore, Maryland
Chris has been playing pipes since the age of ten and was originally taught by James Archibald
Templeton from Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. Archie taught many young players over the years and had the
Juvenile Champion of Champions band back in 1953.
Chris took further piobaireachd tutelage from Pipe
Major Evan MacRae but mostly from Bob Brown Jr. the son of Bob Brown of Balmoral.
Chris went on to great success in professional competitions throughout the UK and whilst competing
around the games was asked to come over to the States in 1986 to join the then grade one Kansas City
St Andrews Pipe Band.
After a number of happy years in America Chris returned to the UK and started his reed making business
which has grown from strength to strength and become internationally renowned over the last 22 years.
During the 1990s Chris joined the grade two Clan Sutherland Pipe Band and became the 'sound man' for
the band, making the reeds and tuning the band for competition. With Chris' ear and knowledge the band
went on to become the grade two Champion of Champions in 1997.
Chris was honored to be asked to be Pipe Major of the prestigious Scottish Piping Society of London soon after this and gratefully accepted the position. During this time Chris became an approved judge with the Joint Committee for judging for light music.
Chris has now relocated to the States and is continuing to make world class reeds, conduct workshops, teach and is now a qualified judge with the MWPBA for both band and solo competition.
JON QUIGG- Baltimore, Maryland
In 1973 at the age of 13, Jon Quigg began his drumming career in the Annapolis Juvenile Pipe Band. While his influences are many, he counts as his primary influences the likes of John Bosworth, and Alex Duthart. In 1976, he moved into the professional solo competitor ranks and into the Grade 2 Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band of Washington, DC, now known as the City of Washington Pipe Band. This organization was actually established by members of the US Air Force Pipe Band in 1961, itself an extension of that branch's Drum & Bugle Corps. While 'the Denny band' has always been home, over the years he has guested with a number of groups around the world, including bands in Monterey, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo and Vancouver.
In 1989, he assumed the Drum Sergeant position and helped them garner numerous North American contest wins, culminating in their winning performance at the 1999 World Pipe Band Championships. That year, he led the corps to winning the Grade 2 drum corps prize while the band also won the overall band title.
In addition to his competition career - which includes numerous solo contest wins around the country - he has recorded for Row-Loff Productions ("Lancer") and performed with the American Originals Fife and Drum Corps, as well as giving clinics around the globe. In 2009 and 2010, he oversaw the City of Washington drum corps' winning performances in the Kansas City Winter Storm drum salute contests. Most recently he was fortunate to present masters classes on pipe band drumming at Old Dominion University and at the 2012 US Association of Rudimental Drummers conference. Currently he is taking some time off from competitive drumming to work on a book that will present Scottish drumming to a wider audience. He lives near Baltimore with his wife, Beth, and MacDhu, the wonder mutt.
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