Tyler Fry
Tyler is considered by many to be the fastest (and most musical) stick flourisher in the world. Awarded every major professional solo championship title in North America by the age of 14, Tyler was a member of three World Champion mid-sections with the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, most recently in 2003. As a member of House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band, he helped win the 2005 World Pipe Band Championship and Best Drum Corps titles.
A member of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario Music Board, Tyler travels extensively throughout Europe and the Americas performing master classes. His company TyFry produces a popular tenor drumstick and an instructional CD-ROM. TyFry sponsors the Gold Medal Tenor Drumming Championship of the same name.
Graham Brown
Graham is 26 years old and was born in Milton, Ontario, Canada. He started drumming 15 years ago at the age of 9 in the Milton Optimist junior Pipe Band, where he was lead drummer. The band was very succesful, winning the World Juvenille Championships in 1994 and the World Championships in grade 3 in 1997. He began playing in grade 1 in 1998 with the Peel Regional Police Pipe Band. He played there for 2 seasons and then joined the 78th Fraser Highlanders in the fall of 1999. Here he spent 2 very enjoyable seasons before realizing his lifelong dream of playing with Jim Kilpatrick and Shotts and Dykehead. The first year with Shotts was 2002. Withe the band Graham has won 2 World Pipe Band Championships, 3 World Drum Corp Championships, 4 drum corp Champion of Champion titles, and accumulated a total of 15 Major Drumming Wins. In solo competitions Graham was the Champion Supreme winner at the Professional level in Ontario in 1998 and 1999, and the overall winner at the North American Championships in 2000, 2001, and 2003. He’s also been a Semi-Finalsist at the World Solo Drumming Championships the past 3 years.
Teaching has also been a big part of Graham’s drumming career. He began teaching in 1996 at the age of 14, and has taught some of Ontarios top young drummers aswell as the drum corp that finnished 2nd in drumming at the 2001 World Championships in grade 3. As a certified judge by the PPBSO, Graham continues to be in demand for judging and teaching all across North America.
