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.