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R. Duane Hendricks is a composer, conductor, trombonist, pianist, artist and teacher. He studied at MacPhail College of Music, the University of Minnesota, Brandon University and the University of Calgary. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a Master of Music degree in Music Composition. He studied piano with Millie Rood and Orville Sveen, trombone with Daryl Gibson, conducting with Frank Bencriscutto, and composition with Gregory Levin and William Jordan.

Hendricks has conducted a community concert band in Calgary as well as other ensembles. As a trombonist he has played in pit orchestras, recordings, concert bands, brass ensembles, circus bands and dance bands. He worked as a music copyist for a symphony orchestra and an opera company. He has worked also as a rehearsal pianist and orchestra-to-piano arranger. As a collaborative pianist he has played with instrumental and vocal soloists, and for opera rehearsals and choirs. As a teacher he has taught music in junior & senior high school, college and university.

Hendricks is also an artist, working mostly in dry pastel and acrylic paints. His preferred subject is the Canadian landscape, a subject which influences many of his musical compositions.

Hendricks has taught trombone, piano, classical guitar and composition, and composes music, mainly for high school, university and community concert bands and wind ensembles, for small ensembles, children’s choirs, and for piano and classical guitar.