Join us for an unforgettable evening of music in support of Manitoba Opera’s Digital Emerging Artists Program.
Nestled in the Lake of the Woods, the intimate setting of Dr. Mark & Theresa Barker’s lakeside cottage provides the perfect backdrop for this extraordinary event, allowing you to immerse yourself in the beauty of both the music and the natural environment.
This unique event will feature captivating performances by Dr. Minna Chung, Shannon Hiebert, Gwen Hoebig, Monica Huisman, Dr. David Moroz, and Dr. Fraser Rubens.
Tickets
$200/person
Tickets will include a partial tax receipt.
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Artist Bios
Dr. Minna Chung
Minna Rose Chung, a Korean-American cellist, is Professor of Cello at the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada) and co-author of the internationally acclaimed CelloMind: Intonation and Technique. This discerning pedagogy method has garnered global praise, with Strings Magazine hailing it as a ‘dense and fascinating treatise that elevates written pedagogy to a new level.’
Since 2008, Chung has been the director of Project Rio. This multi-collaborative program supports the Rio International Cello Encounter (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), the second-largest free music festival in the world, through masterclasses and faculty performances in Brazil. She has returned to perform across Brazil in over thirty-five recitals and concerto performances. She will return to Rio de Janeiro this August to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Rio Encounter.
Chung performs with the Borealis Piano Trio and the Nacka Duo, which tour extensively in recital and lecture-performances at world music conferences, focusing on the art of chamber music. Minna also performs regularly with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and has been featured with Groundswell and the Winnipeg New Music Festival.
Shannon Hiebert
Shannon Hiebert is a Canadian pianist, vocal coach and music director. In addition to her work in opera and recital, Broadway show credits include Mamma Mia, Spamalot, Wicked, Book of Mormon and Jersey Boys. Music Direction credits include Grant MacEwan Theatre productions of Spring Awakening, A Little NIght Music, London Road and Sunday in the Park with George and the Plain Jane Theatre Company’s Sterling Award nominated productions of Fiorello, Little Fish, Mack and Mabel and A New Brain. University of Alberta Opera Theatre productions of L’étoile, Die Zauberflöte, L’elisir d’amore, and the Canadian Premiere of The Enchanted Pig. Recent projects include critically acclaimed productions of Sweeney Todd, London Road and Songs of a Prairie Girl. In 2023 she received a Sterling Award for outstanding musical direction.
Shannon is Chorus Director for Edmonton Opera and is on faculty at the University of Alberta, Department of Music.
Gwen Hoebig
Recognized as one of Canada’s most outstanding violinists, Gwen Hoebig has completed her 36th season as Concertmaster of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. This position has allowed and encouraged her to pursue not only her love of orchestral playing, but also solo performances, chamber music performances, and teaching.
Gwen Hoebig has performed all the major violin concerti with orchestras across Canada, the United States and Europe. As a chamber musician, Gwen has been a member of the Hoebig/Moroz trio with her husband, pianist David Moroz, and with her brother, cellist Desmond Hoebig for over 40 years. She is a founding member of the Clearwater Quartet which in addition to performances for the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society has been Ensemble-in- Residence of the University of Manitoba since 2019. She also regularly plays with her family; husband David, children Alexander (viola) and Juliana (cello) as the JAGD quartet.
Teaching is an integral part of Gwen’s life. She maintains a private studio in Winnipeg, and has students performing and teaching across North America.
Monica Huisman
Dutch-Canadian Soprano Monica Huisman has been hailed as possessing a voice that “embodies both flawless technique and dramatic impact” (Opera Canada). Ms. Huisman has delighted audiences from Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw to Guatemala City, with the reputation of her “silken voice consistently crafting each note into a work of art” (Winnipeg Free Press).
She has delighted Canadian opera houses from coast to coast in productions including Cunning Little Vixen, H.M.S Pinafore, Carmen, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Falstaff, Hansel and Gretel, Lakme, and Transit of Venus, alongside Canadian talents Jean Stilwell, Tracy Dahl, James Westman, Russell Braun, John Tessier, David Pomeroy, Judith Forst, and Richard Margison. Many of these performances have been broadcast by CBC Radio 2’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera.
Equally at home in concert repertoire, Ms. Huisman has thrilled audiences with the NACO, TSO, Guatemala Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic, VSO, WSO, RSO, SSO, Concertgebouw Orkest, Radio-Symphony Orkest, and Orchestra London in such works as Strauss’ Four Last Songs, Brahms’ Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s 9th, Bruckner’s Requiem, Mahler’s 2nd and 4th, Mozart’s Requiem, Rutter’s Magnificat, Poulenc’s Gloria and Vaughn Williams’ Sea Symphony. She has collaborated several times with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, enjoying huge successes with Mark Goddens’ premiere of The Magic Flute, Handel’s Messiah, and Strauss’ Four Last Songs.
Ms. Huisman is also in demand as a voice teacher, clinician and adjudicator. She is a regular faculty member for Manitoba Opera’s DEAP program, Opera Kelowna’s VOSI program as well as Edmonton’s Opera Nuova. She is part of the Vocal Faculty at the Desautels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba.
Dr. David Moroz
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Winnipeg-born pianist David Moroz enjoys a career as one of Canada’s most versatile artists. As a soloist he has performed in every major Canadian city, and as a collaborative artist he appears regularly in recital with Canada’s most distinguished musicians. A gifted and dedicated teacher, in 1999 he was appointed to the University of Manitoba’s Desautels Faculty of Music, where he serves as Chair of the Piano Faculty, and teaches piano, piano repertoire and chamber music.
David Moroz was awarded a Doctor of Music degree from the University of Montréal, and holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the celebrated Juilliard School in New York City. Twice nominated for Manitoba’s Artist of the Year, he is Artistic Director of The Winnipeg Chamber Music Society, and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Government of Canada in recognition of his contribution to the Arts.
Dr. Fraser Rubens
Fraser Rubens has established an active career as an oratorio and concert soloist for choirs throughout Ontario and Quebec. He has sung stage roles with Opera Lyra Ottawa, Co-Opera Canada and the Southminster Festival. He has performed several times with Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings and solo concerts of art song in California, Frankfurt, Salzburg and Italy. The Canadian composer Peter Wilshire dedicated the song series Three Songs for the Heart for tenor and orchestra, to Fraser in 2005. In 2009 he released Songs of Travel – Music of Vaughan Williams, Finzi and Corigliano with Matthew Larkin (piano) and David Thies-Thomson (viola). Dr. Rubens’s musical charity work was featured in The Surgeons on the Discovery Channel. In the last several years, Fraser has worked with Dr. Carol Wiebe (piano) in the outreach group Concert Docs, to provide music for the elderly.
Dr. Rubens completed his medical school training at Queen’s University in 1985 and his cardiothoracic surgical training in 1994. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Ottawa, cross-appointed to the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He has had an active academic career, recognized nationally and internationally for clinical research and resident teaching and for his leadership roles in multiple organizations including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Society of Thoracic Surgery.
