Thank you for an amazing 2025 Academy & Festival!!
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2026: RosamundE Celebrates 15 years
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Founded in 2011, the Rosamunde Summer Music Academy & Festival is where your string playing will blossom! We offer a tailored, high-calibre musical learning experience with a faculty of outstanding performers and teachers, hand-picked for their dedication to a supportive yet exacting teaching style. We look forward to welcoming you to the lovely CMU campus for another year of fantastic music making this August!

Rosamunde is continuing our new Young Professionals program!! This program will allow young string players aged 19-28 pursuing a career in music the opportunity to rehearse and perform alongside one of our stellar faculty. Early applications will automatically be considered for scholarships.

Our 10-day Core program (August 12-21), geared towards serious music students aged 10-19, is designed in accordance with a holistic philosophy that seeks to develop physical and mental well-being as well as musical and technical abilities and ensemble skills. Financial aid is available for the Core program..

For younger and less advanced students aged 6 and up, a shorter Mini Rosie program (full or half days August 17-21) aims to get string players excited about playing, teach good technical habits, build confidence and help develop a peer group of like-minded students for friendship and learning. Our new Peek-A-Rosie program (9-11:30 a.m. August 12-15) is a wonderful opportunity to pique 5-7 year old children's interest in stringed instruments. (No prior musical experience required!)

If you are someone who has always loved to play a string instrument alongside your non-musical career, our Rosamundiade program is just the session for you! This group meets in the evenings from August 12th to 17th and has a great time learning together in the ensemble setting.

ROSAMUNDE FESTIVAL faculty concerts will be held on August 16, 18 and 20.

Accommodation options will be available for out of town students.
​Contact us via email for more information.

See PROGRAMS for more details.
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Distinguished Guest Artist Series

Our 2026 guests will be teaching masterclasses, technique classes, coaching ensembles and performing in the Rosamunde Festival concerts this August.

You are invited to audit the Rosamunde 2026 masterclass series (all violin, viola, cello, theory and double bass master classes) for a fee of $200. For auditing options please contact us.
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2026 faculty

Our 2026 Faculty includes Manitoba’s finest string pedagogues and distinguished guest artists TBA.

ABOUT US

Honorary Patron:
James Ehnes

Founding Directors:
Yuri Hooker
Elation Pauls

Artistic Director:
Elation Pauls

Interim Executive Director:
Hannah Smith
Board of Directors:
Chris Werner
President
Trudy Schroeder
Vice President 
Grant Klassen
Secretary
Vacant
Treasurer
Members at large:
Justin Hickmott
Hannah Humphries
Miona Milovanovic
Glenda Rempel
​Karl Stobbe

If you are interested in joining Rosamunde's board please contact our Artistic Director.

LOCation 

In the spirit of gratitude and reconciliation, Rosamunde gathers to play and listen to music on the ancestral lands of the Indigenous people of Manitoba: the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak & Dakota Oyate peoples and on the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. We acknowledge that our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation and that the treaties on which this land was built were not fully honoured. Rosamunde acknowledges and supports the Indigenous Rights enshrined in the constitution of Canada and we affirm the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We are mindful of the harms and mistakes of the past and we are committed to being part of the process of reconciliation through the gift of music.
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Rosamunde 2025 is returning to Canadian Mennonite University’s beautiful campus, located in a quiet Winnipeg neighborhood adjacent to the Assiniboine Forest, boasting ample greenspace and numerous walking trails. CMU (500 Shaftesbury Blvd. Winnipeg, MB) is an ideal home for our camp, with its spacious and well-appointed music facilities. 

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ROSAMUNDE SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY
500 Shaftesbury Blvd.
Winnipeg MB R3P 2N2

Questions? ​Contact us.
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