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Glenn Buhr (born December 18, 1954) is a Canadian composer, pianist and conductor, who has been active in both classical music and jazz music.
Oct 3, 2014 · Glenn Buhr (b. 1954 – Winnipeg, Canada) is a composer, pianist/guitarist, music curator and producer, songwriter and band leader. He became well known in Canada in the mid-80’s when the Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras first championed his work, and in the mid-90’s as front man – with conductor Bramwell Tovey – of the Winnipeg ...
Early in my career, I earned notoriety in Canada as co-founder with Bramwell Tovey of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival and was recently the artistic director of NUMUS concerts in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Jun 10, 2008 · Glenn Buhr. Glenn Arthur Buhr, composer (b at Winnipeg 18 Dec 1954). After graduating in music from the University of Manitoba (1979), the University of British Columbia (1981) and the University of Michigan (1984), Buhr began to teach at Wilfrid Laurier University in 1984.
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Glenn (Arthur) Buhr. Composer, pianist, conductor, b Winnipeg 18 Dec 1954; B MUS (Manitoba) 1979, M MUS (British Columbia) 1981, DMA (Michigan) 1984. Glenn Buhr studied composition at the University of Manitoba with Lawrence Ritchey and Casey Sokol, at the University of British Columbia with Stephen Chatman and William Benjamin, and at the Universi...
Glenn Buhr was composer-in-residence with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) 1990-6. Together with WSO conductor Bramwell Tovey, he founded the Winnipeg New Music Festival in 1990, curating it until 1996. That year, the WSO named Buhr its first artist laureate. Buhr's residency proved fruitful, resulting in works such as Winter Poems and Concert...
Glenn Buhr has conducted the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He maintains an active career as a jazz pianist, working mainly with his jazz ensemble, the Glenn Buhr Quartet...
Glenn Buhr, 'Musical universals: an aesthetic alternative to the ebony tower,' The Fifth Stream, eds Peter Hatch and John Beckwith, CanMus Documents 6 (Toronto 1991) 'On being a composer of unpopular music,' SoundNotes, 1, Fall-Winter 1991
Epigrams. 1982. Concert band. Fischer 1983 Beren and Lúthien. 1984. Orch. Ms Lure of the Fallen Seraphim. 1987. Orch. Ms Ecstasy. 1988. Orch. Ms Akasha. 1989. Orch. Ms Jyotir. 1989. Chamb orch. Ms Three Pieces. String orchestra, 1991. Ms Winter Poems. Orchestra, 1994. Ms Faust Flying. Orchestra, 1996. Ms Symphony No. 1, 'shift' (formerly 'de joie')...
Nocturno. 1982. Guit, string orch. Ms Ananda (Sanskrit text from the Upanishads). 1989. V, chamber orch (2 mar, 2 piano). Ms The Cycle of Spring. 1990. Sop, SATB, chamber orch. Ms Concerto. Trumpet and orchestra, 1990. Ms Double Concerto. Flute, harp, and orchestra, 1991. Ms Concerto. Piano and orchestra, 1992. Ms The Jumblies(text by Edward Lear)....
Trilogy. Fl, piano. Dorn 1981 The Ebony Tower. 1985. Saxophone, wind ensemble, percussion, piano, double-bass (saxophone, piano, double-bass). Ms Danses Abstraites. 1986. Fl, harp. Ms Jazzmusik. 1986. Vn, viola, violoncello, double-bass, piano. Ms Kammermusik. 1986. Fl, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano. Ms Tanzmusik. 1986. Hp. Gandharva 1989 Va...
Whisper Sleep...1986. SATB, piano. Gandharva 1989 Season of Spring Days(text by Matsuo Basho). Girls' chorus, piano. 1993. Ms Cathedral Songs(text by Margaret Sweatman). Children's chorus, distant brass ensembles, percussion ensemble, and orchestra. 1995. Ms Ritchot Mass. Mixed chorus and string quartet. 1997 (also version without string quartet, 1...
Le rêve revient...1981. 2 piano. Ms Foxnocturne. 1996. Ms Two Pieces (after the Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861 by Johann Sebastian Bach). 2000. Ms
Population 436. 2006 East of Euclid. 2004 Seven Times Lucky. 2004 The Notorious Mrs. Armstrong. 2001 The Pill. 1999 The Clown at Midnight.1998
Glenn Buhr has a broad and various musical life. He’s a composer of concert and stage music for symphony orchestras, ballet companies, string quartets and mixed chamber ensembles. He's also a jazz pianist and guitarist, a rock musician, and a singer/songwriter.
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