Members of the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music will perform a memorial concert in honour of Dr. Robert Turner, Professor Emeritus on November 27. The concert will feature compositions by Dr. Turner who passed away in January of this year.
Robert Turner composed over 70 works in all forms from symphonic, chamber and solo genres […]

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Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music’s University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra (UMSO) will present Elgar’s beloved Cello Concerto and Brahm’s epic Symphony No. 1 on October 22.
Critically acclaimed and resident Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conductor Richard Lee will direct UMSO in its opening concert on Monday evening at Westworth United Church, 1750 Grosvenor Avenue, at 7:30 […]

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The Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Will Bonness as Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano, effective July 1, 2012.
Bonness has been an active member of the Winnipeg, Canadian and international jazz scenes since his teen years. At age 17, Bonness joined Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band […]

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Join the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music for an evening of music on Friday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m., in support of Project Rio, an initiative created to bring attention to the Winnipeg music community through a proposal to fund a performance exchange with Brazilian conservatories.
Each year several Music faculty travel to Brazil […]

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The Contemporary Opera Lab, an annual three-week training course in new opera at the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music, celebrates its 10th anniversary this summer. Students from all across Canada and the United States have gathered together at the U of M to study acting, movement, yoga, singing, and staging under the guidance of […]

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The public is invited out to Hugh John MacDonald School tomorrow night, June 2, 2011, for a concert and celebration of community outreach programs running in the area.
The Bridge Program is an outreach initiative of the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music, led by Steve Kirby, which brings music instruction to underserved neighborhoods. The Bridge […]

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The Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of jazz trumpeter Derrick Gardner to the Babs Asper Professorship in Jazz Performance.
Mr. Gardner is internationally renowned as a performer and has an exceptional record as a dedicated and inspiring teacher at the post-secondary level. He brings to the Faculty over 20 […]

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