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21 May 2025
Coffee, Art, and Coast-to-Coast Experience: A Q+A with Dr. Stephen Runge
Dr. Stephen Runge brings creativity, curiosity, and coast-to-coast Canadian experience to his new role as Director of the School of Art and Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba. We caught up with him for a little rapid fire Q+A to learn more about his background, early impressions, and yes, even his favourite time of day (spoiler: it’s a tie).

11 January 2025
Stephen Runge appointed Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Music and Director of the School of Art at the University of Manitoba
Stephen Runge has been appointed to the dual role of Dean, Desautels Faculty of Music and Director, School of Art at the University of Manitoba, effective May 1, 2025.
Latest Recordings

A Sanctuary in Song
A recital of English Art Song
with Daniel Cabena, countertenor
Includes songs by Finzi, Gurney, Howells, Vaughan Williams, Warlock, and piano preludes by York Bowen
01 December 2020

1917: Music for Solo Piano
Medtner: Fairy Tales, Op. 34
Rachmaninoff: Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 (Nos. 3 and 5)
Busoni: Sonatina "in diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII"
Ornstein: Poems of 1917, Op. 41 (Nos. 1, 5, 4)
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
Debussy: Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
01 December 2018