2012 Violin Faculty

GWEN HOEBIG, recognized as one of Canada's most outstanding violinists, 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 and 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 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. 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 was a founder and Artistic Co-Director of The Music Bridge, a summer program featuring the finest young violinists, violists, cellists and pianists from across China and Canada.