Faculty of Music professors and students collaborate with Winnipeg's outstanding cultural organizations on an ongoing basis.  Winnipeg's thriving arts and festival culture provides many great opportunities to perform on a professional level.

Many of our music faculty provide music throughout Winnipeg and Manitoba through their leadership in arts organizations:

• Professor Emeritus Henry Engbrecht is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Canzona chorus
• Professor Mel Braun is a member of the Manitoba Opera, Winnipeg Philharmonic, Groundswell, Canzona, and Winnipeg Singers
• Professor Elroy Friesen is the founder and past artistic director of "Prairie Voices"
• Professor Richard Gillis is the Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Director of the High School Honour Jazz Bands, a member of Metalmorphosis Brass Quintet and an extra with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
• Professor Allen Harrington plays with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
• Professor Charles Horton is the founding director and performer of choral group "All the King's Men"
• Professor Fraser Linklater serves on the executive of the Manitoba Band Association and is a frequent adjudicator at competitions
• Professor David Moroz is the Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society, which presents a full season of chamber music every year
• Professor Michael Matthews continues as an artistic director of the Groundswell New Music Series
• Director of Jazz Studies' Steve Kirby is on the board of Jazz Winnipeg and leads the programs Jazz on Wheels and The Bridge: Music Learning for Life

Professor David Moroz	Professor Steve Kirby

In addition, our Faculty professors travel globally, giving masterclasses, clinics, workshops, lectures, and performances.

Recent and Upcoming Outreach Events:

Professor Mel Braun conducted a concert for Camerata Nova in April 2011:

Professor Örjan Sandred, Associate Professor in Composition, presented Composing with Computers at the McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park on April 19, 2011. This was part of McNally's Meet the Composer series. Örjan’s music is performed in many countries over the world. In 2009 he released the CD “Cracks and Corrosion” featuring 5 of his compositions. He is presently working on a new commission for oboe, percussion and live electronics for a concert at the Auditorium Saint Germain in Paris in October 2011. He is a frequent guest lecturer at various universities in the world, and this year is going back to China to teach for one week at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Örjan has a profound interest in searching for new methods of composition involving computer technology. His talk at McNally Robinson highlighted some aspects of his work in this field.

On April 16,  2011 Professor Örjan Sandred also gave a presentation on computer-assisted composition at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) in Montreal. Prof. Sandred talked about his research in Rule-based composition systems.
Örjan Sandred