Professional Ceremonial Bagpiper
Birmingham, Alabama Area
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- Professional Ceremonial Bagpiper at Birmingham Bagpiper
- Website Design Mercenary at Piper Productions
- Pipe Major and Musical Director at Ian Sturrock Memorial Pipe Band
- Education
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Ryan Morrison’s Summary
The state's only fully professional ceremonial bagpiper serving Alabama professionally since 2004.
Pipe Major and Musical Director of the Ian Sturrock Memorial Pipe Band.
Won numerous awards in sanctioned solo competitions.
Featured on albums and local television commercials and has appeared in New York Times.
Performed for major dignitaries and even performed as an opening act for Rod Stewart.
To perform on stage with Paddy Moloney and The Chieftains in February. Arranged music for the concert used by pipe bands nationally.
Competing member of the Bushmills Irish Pipers Pipe Band of San Francisco and the Duncan McCall Pipe Band of Pensacola, Florida.
Serves on the boards of the Birmingham Arts & Culture Commission, the Saint Andrews Society of the Middle South and the Caledonian Society of Alabama.
Currently composing a book of original compositions for the bagpipes.
Professional bagpipe instructor. Currently compiling a tutorial for learning the bagpipes.
Offers Bagpipe E-Lessons using Internet technology such as MP3s and YouTube for virtual bagpipe instruction.
Ryan Morrison’s Specialties:
Fifteen years experience as a performer.
Capable of taking engagements with less than 24 hours notice.
Full knowledge of the instrument, its history, and its traditions.
Composer and arranger of music for the bagpipes, garnering praise from well-known pipers Bruce Gandy, Adrian Melvin and Jori Chisholm.
Capable of transcribing any piece of music by ear to the bagpipe.
A multi-instrumentalist adept at Scottish snare, guitar, and mouth-blown and bellows-blown smallpipes.
Ryan Morrison’s Experience
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Professional Ceremonial Bagpiper
Birmingham Bagpiper
(Entertainment industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Alabama's ONLY fully professional ceremonial bagpiper. Performer for hire for weddings, funerals, christenings, birthdays, parties, parades, St Patrick's Day and other holidays, and all other events. Professional music tutor with over a decade of experience in instruction. Composer and arranger of music for the bagpipes.
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Website Design Mercenary
Piper Productions
(Internet industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Design, management, and physical hosting of simple, attractive, and most of all, affordable websites.
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Pipe Major and Musical Director
Ian Sturrock Memorial Pipe Band
(Music industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)
Top-ranking officer and primary band liaison in charge of band management, booking and engagements, musical selection, instrument maintenance, instruction, and various quartermaster duties.
Ryan Morrison’s Education
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Philosophy , Primary focus in Philosophy of Science and Ethics , 1995 — 2000
Followed Honors Track which required additional hours and a thesis.
- Activities and Societies:
- Golden Key Honors Society
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Ryan Morrison’s Interests:
Performing, composing, instructing, website design and promotion, genealogy
Ryan Morrison’s Groups:
Caledonian Society of Alabama (Board Member), St. Andrews Society of the Middle South (Board Member and Pipe Major), Golden Key National Honors Society, Birmingham Arts & Culture Commission
Ryan Morrison’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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