Gwen Hoebig

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Gwen Hoebig (born September 19, 1959 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian violinist and music teacher.

Hoebig had his first lessons from her father and then studied with Sydney Humphreys in Victoria, Stephen Staryk and John Loban in Vancouver and Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas at the Juilliard School . She made her debut at the age of seven with the Vancouver Youth Orchestra and was the winner of numerous festivals and competitions in Canada and Europe in the following years. In the string category she won the 1972 CBC National Music Festival and 1975 the CBC Talent Festival . In 1975 she took second place at the Concertina Praga in a trio with Jon Kimura Parker and her brother Desmond Hoebig . In 1976 she received the Grand Prize at the Canadian Music Competitions , and in 1981 the second prize at the International Violin Competition in Munich. With her brother and her husband David Moroz , she founded the Hoebig / Moroz Trio in 1979 , which was active until 2003 and in 1983 received first prize at the CBC Radio Talent Competition .

From 1983 to 1985 Hoebig was concertmaster of the Orchester des Jeunes du Quebec , and from 1984 a member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra . From 1987 to 2003 she was concertmaster of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra , and from 1987 to 1990 concertmaster of the Manitopa Chamber Orchestra . She has also appeared as a soloist with other Canadian and European symphony orchestras. With John Kadz she founded the Morningstar Music Bridge Program in 1997 , an international summer music festival in Calgary.

Hoebig is particularly interested in contemporary music. She gave the world premiere of violin concertos by Patrick Carrabres (1996), Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramattés and Gary Kuleshas (2000) and the Canadian premiere of violin concertos by Joan Towers , Christopher Rouses and Philip Glass . From 1988 to 1991, and again from 2002, she taught at the University of Manitoba , and from 1989 also at Mount Royal College in Calgary. In 2009 she was named Ambassador for the Canadian Music Center .

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SURNAME Hoebig, Gwen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver