Gwen Hoebig
violin, Canada
Recognized as one of Canada’ s most outstanding violinists, Gwen Hoebig has performed all the major violin concerti with orchestras across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Particularly celebrated for her interpretation of new music, she has given the Canadian premieres of violin concertos by S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté, T. Patrick Carrabré, Joan Tower, Christopher Rouse, Philip Glass, and Gary Kulesha. As a chamber musician she appears frequently in recital
with her husband, pianist David Moroz, and with her brother, cellist Desmond Hoebig in the Hoebig/Moroz Trio. She performs regularly at this country’s foremost festivals, including The Banff Summer Arts Festival, the Festival of the Sound at Parry Sound, the Scotia Festival of Music, the Stratford Summer Music Festival, and the Centara New Music Festival.
A native of Vancouver, Gwen Hoebig studied with Steven Staryk, Sydney Humphreys and John Loban before attending the Juilliard School in New York City, where she was a student of the renowned pedagogues Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. Master classes at The Banff Centre with Lorand Fenyves and Zoltan Székely further enhanced her musical education. She won all the major competitions in Canada by the age of seventeen, and in 1981 was the top prize winner of the Munich International Competition.
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. A gifted and dedicated teacher, Gwen Hoebig has taught at The Banff Centre, Domaine Forget, and is founder and co-director of The Morningside Music Bridge, a summer program featuring the finest young violinists, violists, cellists, and pianists from around the world.
