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 EOIN O'RIABHAIGH (Uilleann pipes)
Son of the great piper and teacher, Micheál Ó'Riabhaigh, Eoin O'Riabhaigh has been playing the uilleann pipes for over thirty years and has enjoyed considerable demand throughout Europe and the United States as both performer and teacher. He has won 'All-Ireland' performing titles at each age category and has numerous television and radio performances to his credit. He is also one of the founders of the unique online teaching school Scoiltrad. In addition to extensive travelling, Eoin has played and recorded with many of the great names in music, including Dolores Keane (Ireland), Mary Black (Ireland), Tom Russell (United States) and the great Iris Demente (United States). Today he enjoys teaching both at home and abroad and has recently released a long awaited debut album entitled 'Tiomnacht' ('Handed On'). The album has since enjoyed huge success as demonstrated below.
"..wild, down-and-dirty, piping." Mic Moroney, Irish Times, August 2000 " His technique and flexibility are almost incredible...if the sound of the pipes is your thing, then this is a five star must for you". Irish Music Magazine Oct. 2000  BENEDICT KOEHLER
Born in Boston, Benedict grew up listening to recordings of Irish traditional music sent over by his mother's family in Dublin. He took up the pipes in his twenties and has listened to and learned from a wide range of the older players, citing as particularly strong influences the stately musical tradition of East Galway and the complex and elegant piping style exemplified by the "gentlemen pipers" Seamus Ennis and Liam O'Flynn. These influences are evident in Benedict's graceful, lyrical style of playing. Well known as an insightful and generous teacher, Benedict will be teaching beginning and intermediate piping workshops. He and his wife, harper/button accordionist Hilari Farrington. Benedict and Hilari live in East Montpelier, Vermont where Benedict, in association with David Quinn, makes and restores uilleann pipes and continues to enhance his reputation as a superb reed maker. Benedict Koehler  PATRICK HUTCHINSON
Patrick Hutchinson was born in Canada but grew up in Liverpool where he had his first lessons on the tin whistle. A student of the well-loved Toronto piper and teacher Chris Langan, he has been playing the uilleann pipes for nineteen years. With Paul Cranford and David Papazian, he compiled and edited Move Your Fingers: The Life and Music of Chris Langan, published by Paul Cranford Publications in Cape Breton. www.cranfordpub.com/books/chris_langan_book.htm Patrick is well known for his unique settings and his penchant for unusual tunes, as well as his compulsion for variations. He has recorded with Tip Splinter, Loreena McKennit, Oliver Schroer, The Revels, and The Barra MacNeills. He holds a Doctorate in ethnomusicology from Brown University in Providence where he is a sound recordings librarian and visiting professor of music. Patrick and his wife, Charlotte Taylor, and son, Benedict, live near Providence, gardening and collecting books. Patrick Hutchinson  Todd Denman
Todd Denman began the uilleann pipes in 1980 and received early recognition in 1982 when he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant under a panel headed by Mick Moloney to study with master piper Denis Brooks in Seattle, and he also studied with several players in Ireland. After four years performing in Europe and Ireland, Todd returned to the US in 1990 and has been a growing presence performing across the country, enjoying the many "unique" personalities of the uilleann pipes. Todd was first recorded in Nashville in 1992 and currently has three critically acclaimed recordings, "Reeds and Rosin" with fiddler Dale Russ, cited as "one of the best Irish albums of the year" by The Irish Voice, "A Celtic Peace" with many guest artists, and "Like Magic" with fiddler Bill Dennehy and guitarist Gerry O'Beirne. He was a founding member of the Seattle Pipers Club under Denis Brooks in 1981, and has served as President of the San Francisco Pipers Club and Editor of the national Pipers Review, and has been very active in the teaching and spread of uilleann piping on the west coast including outreach work for the San ???????  DAVID DAYE
I was one of many frustrated Uilleann pipes learners of the early 1980's, having been a competition Highland piper since the 60's. In the 90's I started the first online Uilleann pipes discussion forum and began to experiment with many aspects of reed and pipe making. I was adamant about the need and ability of pipes to play more easily than many North Americans believed possible in those days. I created the first home-buildable chanter, now widely known as the 'Penny-Chanter, and found or developed a number of innovations for reed making. These include the oboe makers' floatation test for predicting cane properties and my own method for building traditional reeds in a stable played-in condition. Presently I'm developing my own traditional pipes, and trying to revive some features of the better antique instruments.  DEBBIE QUIGLEY, Canadian musician
Born in Newtownards, County Down, Debbie has been playing the tin whistle since her youth in Ireland. After immigrating to Canada with her parents as a teenager, Debbie undertook the study of the uillean pipes under the late Chris Langan. She was a founding member of the popular Toronto based traditional group Kitty's Kitchen. She has performed with Symphony Orchestras, recorded sound tracks for television shows and specials, regularly leads sessions in the Toronto area, has performed on CBC radio as well as on CDs with other musicians and has made numerous live solo appearances. She is a regular organizer of, and performer in, the annual Chris Langan Traditional Weekend in Toronto. She is now one of the best and most respected uillean pipers in all of North America.  WILLIE KELLY
Willie is a renowned Irish fiddler who was born in the Bronx and raised in northern New Jersey. He was inspired to play Irish music after hearing his Irish-born father and grandfather playing the fiddle at home. In his teenage years, he studied under the highly acclaimed West-Limerick fiddler and teacher Martin Mulvihill. Willie is recognized as a master in the art of Irish fiddling and has performed for the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and several other folk arts programs in the U.S. and Canada. He teaches fiddle and Uilleann pipes classes at his home in Northern New Jersey and at Irish music summer schools in East Durham, New York, and Elkins, West Virginia. His is featured the 2001 recording entitled The Road From Ballinakill , which was rated as one of the top 10 Irish music recordings of the The Irish Echo newspaper. |
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