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Leonard (Jacob) Enns. Choir conductor, composer, teacher, b Winnipeg 2 Feb 1948; B CH MUS (Canadian Mennonite Bible College) 1969, B MUS (Wilfrid Laurier) 1974, M MUS (Northwestern) 1977, PH D (Northwestern) 1982. He served 1969-72 as music director at the United Mennonite Educational Institute in Leamington, Ont, then returned to university to study choral conducting with Margaret Hillis. His PH D thesis was titled 'The sacred choral music of Harry Somers: an analytical study'. He became a member of the teaching faculty at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, in 1977 and has conducted the University Choir (1977-82) and the Conrad Grebel Chapel Choir (1977-). He was conductor 1987-8 of the Menno Singers.
Enns has composed some 25 works, mostly for choir, some published by Waterloo, Monarda Publications, and Thomas House Publications. A 1983 work, Prayer for Peace won the vocal/choral class of the 1985 Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society Composers' Competition, and his Songs of Innocence (Waterloo 1979) was performed by the Elmer Iseler Singers on CBC radio in 1985 and in Vienna in 1987 at the International Choral Symposium. Enns is an associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the CLComp.
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