Tom Wiebe
Cello
Office: MB 319
Phone: (519) 661-2111 x86987
Email: twiebe@uwo.ca
Cellist Thomas Wiebe has been heard by audiences, on recordings and radio broadcasts and via streaming throughout North America and Europe. Mr. Wiebe regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician, including with Toronto’s GRAMMY-nominated ARC Ensemble, whose upcoming engagements include a residency at London, England’s Wigmore Hall, and concerts in Los Angeles, Montreal, Manchester, Glasgow, and Halifax. Mr. Wiebe has also appeared frequently with Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble, and other leading artists.
ARC’s upcoming release on the Chandos label will feature chamber music of the Austrian-American composer Frederick Block. Past recordings with ARC on Chandos have included Mr. Wiebe and pianist Kevin Ahfat giving the world premiere recordings of Albert Hemsi’s Danses Nuptiales Grecques, and Elegy and Meditation by Robert Müller-Hartmann, all for cello and piano. Other future CD releases for Mr. Wiebe include the chamber works of Omar Daniel 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 teachers in the summers at le Domaine Forget International Summer Music Academy in St-Irénée, Quebec.
Watch
Ethan Allers and Tom Wiebe share insights on the audition process. (2m50s, 128M)
Music credit: Prelude from Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012, Bach, Johann Sebastian. Excerpts performed by Ethan Allers, 2020
Recent Performances and Recordings
Meditation
by Robert Müller-Hartmann
Tom Wiebe, cello
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Chandos
Elegy
by Robert Müller-Hartmann
Tom Wiebe, cello
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Chandos
Meditation
by Alberto Hemsi
ARC Ensemble
Tom Wiebe, cello
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Chandos
Greek Wedding Dances (i. In Honour of the Mother-in-Law)
by Alberto Hemsi
ARC Ensemble
Tom Wiebe, cello
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Chandos
Greek Wedding Dances (ii. In Honour of the Bride)
by Alberto Hemsi
ARC Ensemble
Tom Wiebe, cello
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Chandos
Greek Wedding Dances (iii. In Honour of the Godfather)
by Alberto Hemsi
ARC Ensemble
Tom Wiebe, cello
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Chandos
Piano Trio No. 2 (iii. Adagio)
by Frederick Block
ARC Ensemble
Marie Berard, violin
Tom Wiebe, cello
Kevin Ahfat
Chandos
Beethoven Sonata in A, op. 69 Scherzo
with Andrew Burashko, piano
Live Performance, Enwave Theatre, Toronto
Links
Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy 2023, summer cello sessions: https://www.domaineforget.com/en/academy-programs-of-study/cello-strings/
