Wendy J. Grasdahl

Wind Ensemble
Studio Trumpet

email: info@festivalcitywinds.ca
telephone: (780) 455-8289

Wendy Grasdahl is well known across Canada as a conductor, adjudicator/clinician, teacher, and trumpeter.  Her professional experience encompasses teaching at university and college levels, as well as military band work and private teaching.

As an officer in the Canadian Naval Reserve, Wendy conducted military bands in Alberta, B.C., and Ontario.  She is in demand as a clinician and guest conductor for school programs, as well as summer music programs, including 12 years at the International Music Camp at the Peace Garden on the Manitoba/U.S. border where she received the prestigious Distinguisned Service Award for conducting and promoting band in North America.  Other awards include the Faculty Association Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of P.E.I.

Having appeared as a trumpet soloist and in professional ensembles across Canada, Wendy is a founding member of the brass quintet “Five of a Kind”, and has played Solo Cornet with the Mill Creek Colliery Brass Band. She is the founder of Festival City Winds Music Society, a comprehensive adult community band programme which is comprised of three Concert Bands plus a growing series of classes and workshops.
Wendy is a clinician for Yamaha Canada.

Wendy currently teaches Brass Techniques and conducts the Concert Band at the University of Alberta.  She teaches trumpet and wind ensembles at Concordia University College of Alberta, and is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Festival City Winds Music Society.

Ms. Grasdahl holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music History from the University of Alberta, a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Calgary, and a graduate level Fine Arts Diploma in Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble Conducting and Literature from the University of Calgary.