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Jori Chisholm
Jori Chisholm, solo bagpiper with the multiple World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, during a warm-up session just prior to the band competition at the Pacific Northwest Highland Games in 2006.
Jori Chisholm, solo bagpiper with the multiple World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, during a warm-up session just prior to the band competition at the Pacific Northwest Highland Games in 2006. The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (SFUPB is a grade one Pipe band affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Background information
Birth name Jori Chishol
Born September 23, 1975 (1975-09-23) (age 32)
Genre(s) Bagpipes
Instrument(s) Bagpipes
Years active 1990s – present
Website www.bagpipelessons.com

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Biography

Raised in a Finnish-American bilingual household (hence the first name, which is Finnish), Chisholm, together with his siblings, began musical training early, beginning with the piano at the age of four and continuing with that instrument until high school, where he played the cello and sang various school choirs. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ

With siblings involved in Highland dancing, it was natural for Chisholm to migrate to the bagpipes, taking his first piping lessons at age 11 from a close neighbor and professional piper, Colin MacKenzie, who was the founder of the first American Grade 1 pipe band, the Blue Heron Bay Pipe Band. The term Highland Dancing is used today to refer to a style of athletic solo Dancing which evolved into its current form during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Early on in his piping career, Chisholm performed exclusively as a soloist since there were few pipe bands where he grew up (and no pipe bands for youth). A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and Drummers The term used by military pipe bands Pipes and Drums, is also common In those years, Chisholm attended piping workshops and competitions, as well as making an annual trip to the Coeur d'Alene Piping School in Idaho, where he studied piobaireachd under Pipe Major Evan MacRae and Andrew Wright. The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. A pibroch (IPA) is a classical music form native to the Scottish Highlands and performed on the Great Highland Bagpipe. The Pipe Major is the director of Bagpipe music in a Scottish or Irish Pipe band.

After graduating from high school, Chisholm enrolled at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. The University of Puget Sound (often called UPS or just Puget Sound) is a private liberal arts college located in the North End of While there, he traveled regularly to British Columbia to take lessons, progressing to the professional level of piping competition. British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C After graduating from UPS with a degree in psychology in 1997, Chisholm was admitted to the national honorary society, Phi Beta Kappa. Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts It was the following year that he joined the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (SFUPB is a grade one Pipe band affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Burnaby British Columbia, Canada

In 2000, Chisholm went on a solo competition tour in Scotland in an attempt to achieve sufficient piping prizes to meet the qualification standards for elite competitions the following year. He succeeded, and was invited to compete at the Argyllshire Gathering at Oban and the Northern Meeting in Inverness in 2001. Piping Competition Established in 1788 in Inverness, Scotland, today the Northern Meeting is best known for its bagpiping competition In his first year competing at the elite level, he won the Royal Scottish Pipers' Society Bronze Star for 1st Place in the 'A' Marches at the Argyllshire Gathering at Oban and Runner-Up in the Silver Medal Piobaireachd at the Northern Meeting in Inverness. [3]

Chisholm continues to compete internationally, taking top prizes in North America and Scotland.

Trivia

Chisholm is the grandson of the famous Finnish fighter ace Jorma Sarvanto. Jorma Kalevi Sarvanto ( February 22, 1912 &ndash October 16, 1963) was a Finnish Air Force pilot and the foremost Finnish

Chisholm is a graduate of the Yamaha Music School. Yamaha Music Foundation is an organization established by the authority of Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization

Prizes


Discography

As a soloist

As a band member

As a producer

As a composer

With Bob Weir & Ratdog

References

  1. ^ BagpipeLessons.com
  2. ^ BagpipeLessons.com | Jori Chisholm with Bob Weir and RatDog
  3. ^ BagpipeLessons.com

External links

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