2020 Instructors
Jack Lee: is regarded as one of the world’s leading pipers. As a Solo Piper, Jack has won all the top awards available including the Gold Medals at Oban and Inverness, and the Gold Clasp twice. Jack is the Pipe Sergeant and co-founder of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. The band has won 6 World Championships. It has also been an extremely consistent prizewinner at the World Championships during the past 30 years, having won either 1st or 2nd on fifteen occasions. Jack dedicates many hours per week to private instruction at home and online around the world via Skype. Several of Jack’s students have gone on to win major solo prizes in Scotland. Jack teaches at many workshops and piping schools throughout North America and beyond each year.
Bob Worrall: is one of North America’s leading teachers, adjudicators and performers. Bob has won the North American Professional Championship an unprecedented seven times, and held the Ontario Championship Supreme title for 12 of his 13 years in professional competition. Bob is highly sought after as a teacher, both for piping workshops and private tuition, and he presents recitals throughout North America and abroad. Bob is on the panel of senior adjudicators for The Piobaireachd Society, qualified for both piobaireachd and light music. Bob is a respected composer, having published three collections of bagpipe music, and also having compositions in a large number of other collections.
Ken Eller: also known as "The Captain", has had a 60 year piping career … 15 times a winner of the North American Pipe Band Championships with two bands: the 78th Fraser Highlanders (1992-2002) and as Pipe Major of the Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band (1971 – 1987). He is now retired from active competition and has expanded his teaching career with on line lessons at www.thecaptainscorner.com
John Fisher: is one of the most versatile drummers and educators of our lifetime. His career has spanned over four decades dividing his passion between drum set and pipe band genres. John 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 Highlander Pipe Band and the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band. With over 40 years experience as a drummer, performer, and educator, he has gained an international reputation as a master of technique, rhythm and musicality.
Bob Worrall: is one of North America’s leading teachers, adjudicators and performers. Bob has won the North American Professional Championship an unprecedented seven times, and held the Ontario Championship Supreme title for 12 of his 13 years in professional competition. Bob is highly sought after as a teacher, both for piping workshops and private tuition, and he presents recitals throughout North America and abroad. Bob is on the panel of senior adjudicators for The Piobaireachd Society, qualified for both piobaireachd and light music. Bob is a respected composer, having published three collections of bagpipe music, and also having compositions in a large number of other collections.
Ken Eller: also known as "The Captain", has had a 60 year piping career … 15 times a winner of the North American Pipe Band Championships with two bands: the 78th Fraser Highlanders (1992-2002) and as Pipe Major of the Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band (1971 – 1987). He is now retired from active competition and has expanded his teaching career with on line lessons at www.thecaptainscorner.com
John Fisher: is one of the most versatile drummers and educators of our lifetime. His career has spanned over four decades dividing his passion between drum set and pipe band genres. John 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 Highlander Pipe Band and the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band. With over 40 years experience as a drummer, performer, and educator, he has gained an international reputation as a master of technique, rhythm and musicality.