Thomas Wiebe

Thomas Wiebe

Cellist Thomas Wiebe has been heard by audiences and on radio broadcasts throughout North America and Europe. Mr. Wiebe regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician, including with the GRAMMY-nominated ARC Ensemble, whose recent, pre-COVID schedule has included appearances at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Rome’s Salla Sinopoli, and Los Angeles’s Schoenberg Hall. Mr. Wiebe also performs with London’s own Rebelheart Ensemble, and other leading artists.

Mr. Wiebe’s most recent disc release with ARC features the chamber music of Robert Müller-Hartmann on the Chandos label, and includes the world-premiere recordings of Müller-Hartmann’s Meditation and Elegy for cello and piano. Mr. Wiebe’s recording of the chamber works of Omar Daniel will soon be released on Centrediscs.

Mr. Wiebe has performed on numerous occasions as a guest artist with Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra London Canada. He has also been soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New York, and with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for the Chandos, CBC, Centrediscs, Doremi and Bowl labels.

Thomas Wiebe studied cello in his native Winnipeg with Julie Banton. He later studied at the Eastman School of Music with Robert Sylvester and Steven Doane, and at Yale University and the Juilliard School with Aldo Parisot. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale.

Mr. Wiebe is Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University in London, and teaches in the summers at le Domaine Forget International Summer Music Academy in St-Irénée, Québec.

Productions/Recordings

OTHER PERFORMANCES

Vienna (1997) - Winnipeg, MB

Erich Korngold (2012) - Vancouver, BC

…Hosted by Glenn Gould (2018) - Hamilton, ON

…Hosted by Glenn Gould (2019) - Rockport, MA

…Hosted by Glenn Gould (2019) - Stratford, ON

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