Gerard Yun, University of Waterloo Choir ensemble director, is appearing tonight in a panel on Choral Improvisation in Community Practice, part of ICASP 'Thinking Spaces" series.
Yesterday, internationally acclaimed young pianist Isabelle Cottet, guest artist/clinician gave interesting and insightful feedback to our student participants. We were also honoured and thrilled to have her perform for us. It was exciting to have such an accomplished young musician (she just turned 23 yesterday) share her considerable knowledge and talents with us.
Sound in the Land 2014 will explore music and the environment while discovering new Mennonite perspectives. This event is a sequel to the highly successful Sound in the Lands 2009 which explored Mennonite music across borders and boundaries, and Sound in the Land 2004 which dealt with Mennonite musical diversities.
Proposals are already being accepted for presentations and musical compositions at 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.
The Conrad Grebel Music Department is pleased to introduce a new ensemble, directed by Dr. Maisie Sum. Auditions begin on Friday, September 6, 2013. Sign up at the Music Department Office.
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 50th 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.