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Music Professor Kenneth Hull is leads a group of 16 on a 17-Day trip starting tomorrow (June 3) first to London, UK and then to Leipzig, Germany to experience the rich music history and culture in these cities.  This trip is part of the Music 355: Music Culture and Travel course offered this Spring term.

Featured events in London include:

On June 9, a Concert of the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, will feature choirs, gamelan, and an original composition titled “Earth Peace” by Carol Ann Weaver, Professor Emerita of Music.  See event page for details. 

Benefit Concert for Attawapiskat

See this new video from the last Jazz Ensemble concert.  It will whet your appetite for the next concert on April 3rd at 2pm, in the Great Hall.

University of Waterloo student Easton Page - Review of concert
Makes you want to come to all the performances!

This weekend there will be 2 concerts featuring the music of Arvo Pärt, both directed by Grebel professor Mark Vuorinen.  Pärt, the most often performed living composer in the world, celebrated his 80th birthday this fall.  The concerts this weekend together celebrate the living legacy of this deeply spiritual and prolific composer.

Every year the University of Waterloo celebrates International Education Week.  For the past two years, the Grebel Gamelan Ensemble has been pleased to be part of the celebration.  See the interview with I Dewa Made Suparta at Waterloo International.

The premiere of Aperi, Domine, os meum written by Professor Emeritus Leonard Enns, is on Wednesday evening, Oct. 27, 2105 at the Philharmony in Warsaw, Poland.  Enns will be presents as this four minute a cappella work, commissioned by the Academic Choir of the Warsaw University of Technology, will be performed.