Jack Lee is a Canadian bagpiper and has been the pipe sergeant of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band since its inception in 1981. The band has won the

World Pipe Band Championships The World Pipe Band Championships is a pipe band competition held in Glasgow, Scotland. The World Pipe Band Championships as we currently know them have been staged since 1947 although the Grade 1 Pipe Band Competition winners at the annual Cowal ...

six times.

Solo career

Lee is a successful solo competitor, having won a significant number of major prizes, including both Highland Society of London Gold Medals (

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in 2001 and

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in 1981,) the former winner's Clasp at the Northern Meeting (1994), the Canadian Gold Medal (2002), and was the first North American piper to win the Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championship (2003).

Early life and family

He was born on 6 December 1957 in

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, and moved to Surrey in

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at the age of 2. Lee holds a

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degree in accounting from the

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. He and his brother Terry, the former pipe major of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, received the

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by the Governor General of Canada in 1999 at a ceremony in Quebec City, Quebec. They were awarded honorary doctorates by Simon Fraser University in 2013. He and his wife Christine have three sons, Andrew, Colin, and John, who also play with Simon Fraser University.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Jack 1957 births Living people Great Highland bagpipe players Musicians from British Columbia Musicians from Manitoba People from Portage la Prairie Gold Medal winners (bagpipes)