Brian Morrison is Georgetown FD Pipes and Drums Mid-Section instructor (Bass / Tenor). He is also instructing members of the Emergency Service Pipes and Drums Association in Central Texas. Brian is a very accomplished Bass and Tenor player and is currently the Bass for the Westminster PB. Brian resides in Houston and is currently employed with the Lake Jackson EMS as an EMT. He just finished up his Paramedic class and is hoping to move to Central Texas.
Brian Clark Morrison, 24
Bands:
1993-2002 - St. Thomas Episcopal School Pipe Band
2000-2002 - Hamilton Pipe Band
2002-2004 - St. Thomas Alumni Pipe Band
2004-Present - Westminster Pipe Band
Band Awards:
World Chamionship
1998 - 1st place with St. Thomas Episcopal Juv.
1999 - 3rd place Hamilton Pipe Band Grade 2
2000 - 10th Place Hamilton Pipe Band Grade 2
2001 - 2nd place St. Thomas Episcopal Juv.
Cowal Championship
1998 - 1st Place St. Thomas Juv.
2001 - 1st Place St. Thomas Juv.
North American Championship
1998 - 1st Place St. Thomas Episcopal Grade 3
U.S Championship
2006 - 1st Place Westminster Pipe Band Grade 4
2007 - 1st Place Westminster Pipe Band Grade 3
Bass Drumming Awards:
World Championship
1998 - Best Bass St. Thomas Episcopal Juv.
2001 - Best Bass St. Thomas Episcopal juv.
North American Championship
1998 - Best Bass St. Thomas Episcopal Grade 3
2004 - 4th Place Open Bass Drum Solo
Instruction
I have been taught by the following people:
Mike Cusack - St. Thomas PM
Bob Shephard - Dysart and Dundonald PM
Bert Barr - Shotts and Dykehead, British Airways drummer
Jim Kilpatrick - Shotts and Dykehead LD
Donald McPhee - Scottish Power, Field Marshal Montgumery
Craig Colqhoun (Hoss) - 78th Fraser Highlanders Bass
Tyler Fry - Shotts and Dykehead, 78th Fraser Highlanders Tenor
Scott Currie - Scotish Power Tenor
Ian Mckellan(Sp?) - Strathclyde Police PM
Eric Ward - Strathclyde Police LD
Steve Foley - LA Scots Bass
Mike Hunter - 78th Fraser Highlanders LD
John Fisher - various bands LD
Graham Brown - Milton Optimust, 78th Fraser Highlanders, Shotts and Dykehead, Peel Police
Mike Savage - Toronto Police
July 11th, 2008
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Stephen grew up near the village of Cullybackey in Northern Ireland’s piping and drumming heartland. A student of the legendary Bobby Rea and Andrew Scullion from the age of 7, Stephen had the privilege of learning from and playing with what are now household names in pipe band drumming circles, including Eric Ward and John Scullion.
Over the course of 30 years, Stephen has seen solo success on the All-Ireland and North American stage. By the time Stephen moved to Ontario, Canada in 1988, he had won Ulster and All-Ireland solo drumming titles, and quickly established himself firmly at the top of the North American solo drumming list. Under the watchful eye of Drew Duthart (Metro Toronto Police), Stephen remained unbeaten in Professional Solo Drumming events from 1988 to 1991, grabbing a North American and Canadian Professional titles in the process. A lead drummer from a very young age, Stephen was part of the double World Championship winning Cullybackey Junior Pipe Band, a feeder band for the famous Cullybackey Pipe Band of the 1970’s and 1980’s. The velocity of the junior band’s meteoric rise from Novice Juvenile to Grade II in the mid-80’s has only recently been matched by Boghall & Bathgate’s feeder band and Robert Malcolm Memorial from Vancouver, B.C.
During his 3 years in Ontario, Canada, Stephen was wing-man to the fearless Drew Duthart, helping to form what was to become one of the most highly accomplished and respected drums corps ever assembled in North America. Many of today’s top drummers on the North American (and now world) scene got their start in that corps. Following his return to Northern Ireland in the early 1990’s, Stephen led the Cullybackey Calendonia’s drum corps, until handing over control to Andrew Scullion in 1993.
After winning the Champion of Champions drumming awards for two of the next three years, Stephen moved to Austin, Texas, where he now lives and works. He has been a popular fixture on the southern and central U.S. teaching circuit, with a number of bands retaining his services in pursuit of drumming excellence. He returned to Ontario in 2003 to compete in Grade I with the Toronto Police Pipe Band for the season, where the band once again qualified for the Grade I finals. Since then Stephen has spent his time teaching students as part of their home school curriculum, as well as clinics and workshops hosted by an assortment of bands and societies.
Cameron Highland Drumming
You tube videos of Stephen
March 26th, 2008
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