The Ensemble Gwen Hoebig, violin Karl Stobbe, violin Daniel Scholz, viola Yuri Hooker, cello David Moroz, piano
Guest Performers
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Performer Biographies
Gwen Hoebig, violin
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Recognized as one of Canada's most outstanding violinists, Gwen Hoebig is a
graduate of the
Juilliard School
in New York City. As a student she won every
major Canadian music competition, and in 1981 was the top prizewinner at the
Munich International Violin Competition.
A champion of new music, she has
given the Canadian premieres of violin concertos by
S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté,
T.P. Carrabré,
Randolph Peters,
Gary Kulesha, Joan Tower,
Christopher Rouse and
Philip Glass, and as soloist with
orchestra she has performed all the major violin concerti
with orchestras across Canada, the United States and Europe.
As a chamber musician she appears frequently in recital with her husband, pianist
David Moroz,
and has performed at many of the country's foremost festivals including
The Banff Arts Festival, the
Festival of the Sound
at Parry Sound, the
Domaine Forget, the
Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival,
Festival Vancouver, the
Scotia Festival of Music, the
Stratford Summer Music Festival and the
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival.
Gwen Hoebig joined the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster in 1987, having been awarded the position as the unanimous choice of the audition committee. In 1993 she was honoured by the Government of Canada when she received the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation, in recognition of her contribution to the Arts. She has always taken a great interest in the development of young musicians and maintains a private teaching studio in Winnipeg. She has also been a member of the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Music and teaches regularly at the Mount Royal College in Calgary, where she is a member of the Extended Faculty. She is founder and Co-Director of The Morningside Music Bridge, an international summer program featuring the finest young violinists, cellists and pianists from across China, Europe, the United States and Canada. |
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Gwen Hoebig (photo: Andrew Sikorsky) |
(biography current as of September, 2009)