The final performance of this year’s Summer Jazz Camp takes place Aug. 19 on the rooftop of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Featured artists include Steve Kirby, director of Jazz Studies; Jimmy Greene, assistant professor of jazz saxophone; and George Colligan, assistant professor of jazz piano.
Quincy Davis, the faculty’s new assistant professor of jazz drum set, will […]

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Starting Tuesday, November 10, 2009, edna fedya, a vibrant restaurant in south Winnipeg will become a new hotspot for art and culture in the city.Between 5:00 and 6:00 pm each weekday, you can drop by to hear artists, entrepreneurs, architects, writers, academics and journalists talk hot topics and hear musicians play live.
Sunday afternoons will focus […]

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For the second consecutive year the University of Manitoba jazz program, which is only two-years-old, has produced a national award winner.
Luke Sellick, 19, won the Oscar Peterson Grant for Jazz Performance, a $10,000 award given to only one Canadian jazz student every year by the Hnatyshyn Foundation.

 

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A University of Manitoba student who just completed her first year of studies in the jazz program at the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music has been awarded an Oscar Peterson Grant for Jazz Performance. Samantha Chrol was awarded the prize by the Hnatyshyn Foundation, an Ottawa-based foundation that annually awards eight $10,000 scholarships to […]

 

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