News

Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment – a Festival/Conference of Mennonites and music, June 5 – 8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel University College/UW, will explore ways of hearing the earth and listening to the environment.  The third in a series of highly successful events, Sound in the Land 2014 will combine concerts – choral, vocal, chamber, orchestral, soundscape, multimedia, folk/jazz – with workshops, academic conference sessions, nature/sound walks, and singing, as we discover ecological understandings of music and sound, both locally and globally.  As part of Grebel’s 50^th Anniversary celebrations, this event brings together musicians, environmentalists, ethnomusicologists, writers and artists into fields of ‘creation care’ and ecomusicology, studying sound from an environmentally ethical basis, consistent with long-standing Mennonite values. 

Mark Vuorinen Takes the Baton at Waterloo

Susan Schultz Huxman, President of Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Vuorinen as faculty member in Choral Music.

"This Day" music video recorded at Conrad Grebel University College.  An original piece of music composed by Professor Leonard Enns, and performed by the University of Waterloo Chamber Choir.

Global engagement is one of the core values and priorities of Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo. Dr. Maisie Sum has been appointed to a new faculty position in Global Music to expand and explore the study and performance of "world music" in the Music program.

Paraguay Primeval  by Carol Ann Weaver is a musical work featuring stories of Mennonites who fled to Paraguay from Russian and Canada in the 1920s and beyond.  This January 2013 Manitoba tour takes this music to some of the very people who were born in Paraguay but have moved back to Canada.  It is the hope that their stories will be thus celebrated.

Music and Culture in London & Leipzig

This Travel course takes place from June 6-23, 2013 and may be taken for credit as Music 355.

Experience the music and cultural life of London and Leipzig from the 16th Century to the present through concerts, museums, galleries and architecture and walking tours.

Courage for Lydia – a Noon Hour Concert for Lydia Herrle

Music by Waterloo composers Carol Ann Weaver and Joanne Bender

Wednesday, Oct. 12:30 Noon, 2012, Conrad Grebel Chapel

Free concert – all are welcome

Music 390/391 or PACS 301 for Winter 2013!

10:00am-11:20am  Mondays & Wednesdays, CGC Rm 1300

This is a Music and PACS course about African music in response to peace and conflict.

Professor Ken Hull received an Award of Recognition from the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (LcMc).

 “this trip absolutely changed my life, hands down!”
“It really was the trip of a lifetime!”

on UW’s South African Music and Culture Trip, May, 2012

by Professor Carol Ann Weaver, June 7, 2012