Glenn Buhr's works have been performed by chamber ensembles, soloists and orchestras all over the world.

He became well known in Canada as co-founder with Bramwell Tovey of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival. He was composer-in-residence with the symphony, and curator of the New Music Festival from 1990 to 1996.

In March 1996, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra created the position of Artist Laureate for Dr. Buhr.

He is associate professor of music composition at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and is also active as a guest conductor having conducted concerts with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Recently, he was music director of the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre and artistic director of the Music in the Ruins festival in Manitoba. He has received several composition awards, including first prize in the prestigious Italian Pro Loco Corciano Competition for Epigrams, a work for wind orchestra.

In 1998 he was named University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, the first time that honour had been given to a creative artist.