Background
Hoebig was born in 1961 and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Desmond Hoebig
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Education
He studied with James Hunter, Jack Mendelsohn and Ian Hampton.
Career
Hoebig has held the chair of Principal Cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Hoebig is currently Professor of Cello at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, United States of America. From 1989 to 1991 he was an associate professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. The trio has toured in Canada, the United States of America, and England.
Hoebig studied with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Military Medal at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins, and participated in master classes with Janos Starker and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at the Banff Centre. He has also performed for 30 years with the Hoebig-Moroz Trio and a duo with Andrew Tunis.
Hoebig has taught and performed at festivals throughout North America, including. Banff, Louisiana Hoya, Marlboro, Music Bridge, Orcas Island, Sarasota and Steamboat Springs.
Achievements
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The trio won first prize in the 1983 Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio Talent Competition. Mr. Hoebig won the First Prize at the Munich International Competition (1984), the Grand Prize of the Canadian Broadcasting Company Talent Competition (1981) and the Canadian Music Competition (1980). He was also an award winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982). As a chamber musician, Hoebig was the cellist with the Orford String Quartet of Canada when they won a Juno award for the best classical music album in 1990.
