In the Faculty:

Woodwind, Brass & Percussion Area Coordinator

Teaching activities:
    Conducting (Undergraduate and Graduate)
    Band and Orchestra methods (Music Education)
    Chamber Music
    Director of U of M Wind Ensemble
    Director of U of M Concert Band
   
Committee Chair: Recruiting Committee, Ensemble Committee

Committee Member: Graduate Committee, Music Education Committee, Scholarship and Awards Committee

In the Community:

Board of Directors Executive - Manitoba Band Association
Coordinator - Manitoba Junior, Intermediate, and Senior Honour Bands
Editor - Canadian Winds Journal (official publication of the Canadian Band Association)

Contact:
(204) 261-8977, fraser_linklater@umanitoba.ca

Professional Bio:

Fraser Linklater is presently an Associate Professor in the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, where he directs the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band and Chamber Winds and teaches courses in music education and conducting.  A native of Winnipeg, Dr. Linklater holds a Master’s degree in Music Education from the University of North Texas and a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Michigan.  He has published articles in the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Music Educators Journal, and the Canadian Music Educator.  He has also presented at national music education conferences.

A trumpet player, Dr. Linklater has performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Genève (Switzerland), and the Ron Paley Big Band, as well as being a founding member of the Winnipeg Brass Quintet.  His trumpet teachers have included Vincent Cichowicz, Armando Ghitalla, and Edward Tarr.  Dr. Linklater has studied wind conducting in numerous workshops with clinicians such as Frank Battisti, Eugene Corporon, Craig Kirchhoff, Allan McMurray, Larry Rachleff, and Mallory Thompson, as well as with H. Robert Reynolds at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Linklater has guest conducted and adjudicated at various festivals and music camps across Canada as well as the United States.

A co-director of the Canadian Wind Conductors Development Program, Dr. Linklater is also Secretary of the Manitoba Band Association and coordinates all three levels of honour bands for the MBA.  In October 2002, he received the MBA Award of Distinction for his services to music education in Manitoba.  Dr. Linklater is an assistant editor of Canadian Winds, the national journal of the Canadian Band Association.  In May 2006 Dr. Linklater was the guest conductor of the National Youth Band of Canada and has also guest conducted at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival in February 2008 and 2009.

Creative and Research Activity:

Under Dr. Linklater’s direction, the University of Manitoba Wind Ensemble has released three CDs devoted to Canadian wind band music — North Winds I, II and III.
Dr. Linklater is also interested in transcribing orchestral works for wind ensemble and has completed transcriptions of Four Fragments from Wozzeck by Alban Berg, Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland, Frenergy by John Estacio, Symphonic Metamorphosis by Paul Hindemith, Tabuh-Tabuhan by Colin McPhee, and portions of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.  Frenergy has been performed on three continents, including performances by the World Youth Wind Ensemble at the WASBE Conference in Ireland in July 2007 and by the Latin American Honour Band in Caracas, Venezuela in June of 2008.  At the CBDNA National Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March 2007 Dr. Linklater gave a presentation entitled “The Wind Music of Colin McPhee.”  In July 2009 at the WASBE Conference in Cincinnati, Dr. Linklater again gave a presentation on Canadian band music, this time on the music of Bruce Carlson.