2025 Reading Sessions - Edmonton
2025 Reading Clinic: Get it right from the start!
Once again we are pleased to offer a comprehensive series of sessions featuring new music selections for concert band, elementary classroom, and sacred and non-sacred choirs. We organize our reading sessions with your professional development in mind: our dedicated team strives to choose repertoire for its educational value, originality and overall appeal. With selections appropriate for schools, church choirs and community programs of all ages and abilities, you're certain to find fun and innovative new material to suit your musical needs. See below to find the locations, dates, and times for sessions in your area. We look forward to seeing you in August.
Edmonton Schedule
This evening session led by Dr. Evelyn Grieger will cover the latest in sacred choral publications. Light refreshments will be provided.
Register for Sacred Choral
This evening session led by Jorgianne Talbot will cover the latest in elementary choral publications and classroom materials. Light refreshments will be provided.
Register for Elementary/Classroom Choral
This evening session led by Dr. John Wiebe will cover a wide range of choral publications suitable for high school and community choirs. Light refreshments will be provided.
Register for Secondary Choral
Long & McQuade is thrilled to present our new concert band music session with Dr. Wendy Zander. In this session, Dr. Zander will be reviewing highlights of this year's offering from publishers and composers of band music, and some great professional development. The session will focus on repertoire from level 0.5-3.
Register for Concert Band
Our Clinicians
Dr. Evelyn Grieger
Dr. Evelyn Grieger holds degrees from the University of Lethbridge, the University of Alberta, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has taught at a number of post-secondary institutions in Alberta and Illinois. In addition to teaching undergraduate conducting at The King’s University, Dr. Grieger is the Minister of Music at First Baptist Church in Edmonton.
Dr. Grieger is presenting the Edmonton Sacred Choral clinic.
Jorgianne Talbot
Jorgianne Talbot is an elementary and choral music specialist in Edmonton. Jorgianne Talbot holds a Master of Music in Music Education with a Kodály Emphasis Degree from Columbus, Ohio, an After-Degree in Elementary Education and a Bachelor of Music (Voice Performance) Degree from the University of Alberta. She also received three diplomas in music, choral, and vocal pedagogy from the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary.
Jorgianne Talbot is presenting the Edmonton Elementary/Classroom Choral
Dr. John Wiebe
Dr. John Wiebe is an award-winning choral conductor, pianist, orchestral conductor, singer, educator, adjudicator and clinician from Edmonton Alberta. Known for the energy, craftsmanship and passion he brings to his music making, John has multiple recordings, awards and broadcasts to his credit. John is the Director of Choral Activities and the Director of Music at the University of Alberta – Augustana Campus.
Dr. Wiebe is presenting the Edmonton Secondary Choral clinic.
Dr. Wendy Zander
Dr. Wendy Zander is the Instrumental Music Education Specialist and director of the Symphonic Band at Brandon University where she teaches courses in music education and conducting. Work as a solo and ensemble adjudicator and clinician for concert and jazz ensembles has taken her across Canada and the United States. She serves as a guest conductor for university, community, and military ensembles, as conductor at the International and Rushmore Music Camps, and as facilitator of conducting symposia. She has conducted junior high and high school regional, provincial, and state honor bands and was the conductor of the 2018 National Youth Band of Canada. Wendy is the advisor of the Brandon University Student Music Educators Association (BUSMEA). She served as Lead Writer of the Manitoba Grade 9-12 Music Curriculum Framework, has published in Canadian Winds, and is a regular contributor to the publication and recording Teaching Music Through Performance series. A former President of the Manitoba Band Association and Canadian Band Association (CBA), she is an Educational Clinician for the Conn-Selmer Division of Education and the 2021 recipient of the CBA’s National Band Award. Zander, active as a conductor and clinician, investigates areas related to teaching and learning, conducting, and instrumental literature as curriculum in the music classroom.
Dr. Zander presenting the Edmonton Concert Band clinic.
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