2025 Reading Sessions - Winnipeg
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.
Winnipeg Schedule
Long & McQuade is thrilled to present our new concert band music session with Dr. Darrin Oehlerking. In this session, Dr. Oehlerking 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.
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Our Clinician
Dr. Darrin Oehlerkin
Dr. Darrin Oehlerking currently serves as Associate Dean of Student Affairs for the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan, and is Professor of Music in the USask School for the Arts. He previously served as Director of Bands and Jazz at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota, and as Music Coordinator for the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dr. Oehlerking conducted the 2022 National Youth Band of Canada, held at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He has previously served as the President of the Canadian Band Association, as well as the President of the Saskatchewan Band Association. He has conducted ensembles, served as an adjudicator, conference presenter and clinician across Canada, as well as in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He has two arrangements for wind band available from Eighth Note Publications – Regimental March of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Souvenir de Quebec. He is the editor and compiler of the forthcoming book Winds of the North, a resource dedicated to highlighting Canadian wind band repertoire and music education. It is scheduled to be published by GIA in December 2025.
Dr. Oehlerking is presenting the Winnipeg Concert Band clinic.
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