The Winter School provides instruction for bass, side and tenor drumming. For this coming session in February of 2010, Tyler fry and Michael O'Neil are the instructors. Click here to learn more about Winter School.
With Winter School right around the corner, let's kick off 2010 with a big GRACEnotes shout out to the tenor instructors:
Tyler Fry - is one of the world’s leaders in the art of tenor drumming. By age 14 he had won every major professional title in North America, including the Canadian, United States and North American Championships. With the 78th Fraser Highlanders, Tyler was part of three World Champion midsections. He now plays with Scotland’s House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band. His company ‘TyFry’ produces quality tenor sticks that are used by the world’s top pipe bands. Tyler also travels extensively throughout the world teaching workshops and seminars. The energy he brings to the stage, is only surpassed by the energy and passion he brings to instructing others. Such demand has he created, that we've added an additional instructor for the weekend Winter School tenor drumming session to reduce his class size!
Michael O’Neil, Carmel, California. Michael began playing the drums in 1994 and joined the Prince Charles Pipe Band of San Francisco in 1996. In 2000, the Prince Charles Band won the Grade 2 World Pipe Band Championship in Scotland, also winning the “best bass section” award in the competition. He played with the RMM II pipe band in Vancouver in 2006, winners of the Grade 2 World Pipe Band Championship. Michael joined the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band in 2007, and performed with the band in 2008 and 2009 while winning the Word Pipe Band Championships back to back, including best drum corps prizes both years. An accomplished solo competitor, Michael has also won the gold medal tenor event at the “Winterstorm” event in Kansas City on two separate occasions.
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