Tom Wiebe
Ensemble Director - Chamber Ensembles
Associate Professor - Cello
Office: MB 243
Phone: 519-661-2111 x86987
E-mail:
twiebe@uwo.ca
Cellist Thomas Wiebe is well
known to Canadian audiences as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed
as guest soloist with the Winnipeg and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestras,
Orchestra London Canada and the Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New
York. Along with violinist Mark Fewer and pianist Peter Longworth, he is a
founding member of the Duke Trio, which is heard in concert and on radio
broadcasts throughout Canada. Professor Wiebe also performs frequently with the
Art of Time Ensemble in Toronto, and with other leading chamber music artists. He
has recorded for the CBC, Centrediscs and Doremi labels.
Professor Wiebe studied cello
in his native Winnipeg with the late Julie Banton. He continued at the Eastman
School of Music with Robert Sylvester and Steven Doane. Later, he studied with
Aldo Parisot at Yale University and the Juilliard School. He holds a Doctor of
Musical Arts degree from Yale.
Professor Wiebe has been on the
faculty at Western University since 2000. He also teaches at Domaine Forget
Summer Music Academy in St.-Irenee, Quebec at www.domaineforget.com
