BIO
Dr. Thomas Wiebe is a cellist and Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University. 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.
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. His most recent disc releases include the world-premiere recording of Ernest Kanitz’s Sonata for Solo Cello on Chandos and the chamber works of Omar Daniel on Centrediscs.