Dr. Wendy Zander McCallum

Conn Selmer Educational Clinician

Dr. Wendy Zander McCallum is the Instrumental Music Education Specialist and director of the Symphonic Band at Brandon University. As a Professor in the School of Music, she also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education and conducting.

Work as a solo and ensemble adjudicator and clinician for concert and jazz ensembles has taken Zander McCallum across Canada and the United States. She serves as a guest conductor for school, university, community, and military ensembles, as a 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 as well as the National Youth Band of Canada. The Brandon University Symphonic Band has performed as the featured ensemble at the Atlantic Band Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Con Brio Music Festival in Whistler, British Columbia.

Zander McCallum values the creation of learning communities that provide professional opportunities for students and educators in the areas of performance and music education.  For fifteen years she hosted Avenues: Exploring Band and Jazz Methods, an annual summer professional development workshop at Brandon University.  She is Faculty Advisor for the Brandon University Student Music Educators Association (BUSMEA), an organization that designs and delivers the annual Da Capo professional development conference.  In addition, she has presented to school districts and provincial music education conferences, College Band Directors National Association regional conference, and The Midwest Clinic.

Zander McCallum was the Lead Writer of the Manitoba Grade 9-12 Music Curriculum Framework, publishes in the journal Canadian Winds, and is a regular contributor to the publication and recording series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band and Teaching Music Through Performance in Beginning Band. A former President of the Manitoba Band Association (MBA) and Canadian Band Association (CBA), she is both an Educational Clinician with the Conn-Selmer Division of Education and a Teaching Affiliate with Brandon University’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology.

Committed to excellence in music education, Zander McCallum taught band and general elementary music before pursuing graduate studies.  Wendy holds the Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education degrees from Brandon University and completed a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting at the University of North Dakota with Gordon Brock and James Popejoy.  She received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas where she served as a Doctoral Conducting Associate and Teaching Fellow in the Wind Studies Department with Eugene Migliaro Corporon.  She completed her cognate studies in Music Education with Deborah Rohwer and Darhyl Ramsey.

Zander McCallum investigates areas related to rehearsing and learning, conducting, and instrumental literature as a meaningful source for doing, knowing, and understanding in the music classroom. She is presently engaged in research related to the Wind Recording projects of her mentor, Eugene Migliaro Corporon. Zander McCallum has been awarded Brandon University Alumni Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the Manitoba Band Association’s Award of Distinction and the Canadian Band Association’s National Band Award. Wendy lives in Brandon, Manitoba with her music-making sons, Rory and Anders.