Pipe Sergeant Sven Axelsson, who was born in 1962, joined the band in 1979 and was taught to play the pipes within the Murray Pipes & Drums. He was always interested in music and played until ca. 1981 the oboe and the basson in several orchestras. He also enjoys performing music from the rennaisance and the baroque periods using various recorders, flutes, rackets, curtalls etc.

Sven has competed sucessfully in Scandinavian piping competitions. He was also one of the pipers who started trying out new piping ideas in the mid 1980s. From 1989 to 1992 Sven worked at the Microsoft World-Wide Product Group in Dublin, Ireland. He then took the opportunity to take part in many traditional Irish music sessions and recieved tuition in the Irish flute and tin whistle from Peter Phelan of Firhouse, Dublin, and from Marcus Murphy of Belfast.

When he returned to Sweden he started a project togheter with Mats, to have the music for the band repertoire transcribed using bagpipeTeX.

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Published on: 2003-05-14 (2078 läsningar)