Dwayne Engh has been blessed with a wide range of opportunities throughout the world as a composer, conductor, percussionist, and educator. He recently had the opportunity to participate in a residency as a composer at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where he also played for the Banff Centre Opera and with the Banff Festival Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Education (Masters of Teaching) from the University of Calgary.

Dwayne has written for chamber ensembles, choirs, dance, film and theatre. His original compositions have been performed on CBC Television. He has written for dance groups including the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, Corps Bara Dance Company and Providence Catholic Winterguard (Chicago). His most recent works for theatre include Sam Shepard's savage love (2004) and Daniel MacIvor's The Soldier Dreams (2001). He has written percussion ensemble pieces for many ensembles, most notably Move to Strike, the Calgary Stampede Showband, the Sizu-City Elementary School Marching Band (Japan) and the Central Kitsap High School Percussion Ensemble (Washington).

An accomplished percussionist, he has performed with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Ballet Orchestra, recorded for CBC Radio and performed with pit orchestras in both Toronto and Calgary. Mr. Engh is a founding member of the Move to Strike Percussion Group and of the saxophone-marimba duo Saximba. He has worked as a modern, Flamenco and West African dance percussion accompanist for the University of Calgary Dance Program and for the DJD School of Dance. He is an active freelance percussionist and drummer around Calgary.

Mr. Engh is the Director of Bands for the Calgary Exhibition & Stampede and the Music Director of the community choir Cum Vino Cantus. As well, he was formally an Off-Campus Teacher Representative and a high school English and Music educator for the Calgary Board of Education.