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2026 WJO Honour Jazz Bands
(junior, intermediate, senior)

Link to 2026 WJO Honour Jazz info

Submission Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2026
Results Announced: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Rehearsal (senior band only): Monday, June 1, 2026
Rehearsals and workshops: Saturday, June 6, 2026
Rehearsals and workshops: Saturday, June 13, 2026
Concert (part of the Winnipeg Jazz Festival): Monday, June 15, 2026

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra’s annual Honour Jazz Bands program provides students from across the province the opportunity to gather together for a shared experience of fast-paced musical challenges and growth in the context of a big band. Participants work closely with Manitoba’s finest jazz educators and performers.

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2024 Senior Honour Band

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is generously funded by:

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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra welcomes and shares its performance and creation of music - a universal language to all people irrespective of culture, race, sexuality, ability, language and gender.

Music is an agent of hope. A dynamic and valuable device that helps us to heal and to bring us together. The First Peoples of Canada understood this and used music to reunite, resolve and reconcile. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that WJO activities take place on Treaty Territory – land that was maintained and earnestly cared for by Indigenous peoples before European settlement. Manitoba is the original lands of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and is the homeland of the Métis Nation. We acknowledge that Winnipeg benefits daily from Treaty 3 water that comes from Shoal Lake 40. It is with sincere sentiment that we recognize the mistakes of our recent and distant past. In working towards a Canada that benefits us all, we commit to seeking a greater understanding of Canada’s diverse cultural relationships through continued work with Indigenous communities; we commit to live in ways that honour and respect the treaties that were made on these territories; and we commit to stewarding the land in harmony for all who will come after us.

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2026 WJO Honour Jazz Bands ​(junior, intermediate, senior)

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​The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is generously funded by:

Education Sponsors:

2026 WJO Honour Jazz Bands
(junior, intermediate, senior)

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is generously funded by: