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 is presenting the Saskatoon Concert Band clinic.