OUR 2020 FACULTY

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2020 distinguished guest artists

VIOLAINE MELANÇON

Violaine Melançon is Associate Professor of Violin at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. She actively performed internationally as founding violinist of the Peabody Trio for thirty years and served on the violin and chamber music faculties of the Peabody Conservatory from 1987 to 2019. She has participated in many summer festivals as violinist, teacher and guest artist. During the summer she is on the faculty of Domaine Forget, the Summer Violin Institute in Chicago, and performs and teaches in a variety of festivals coast to coast in North America. Her performances can be heard on the Naxos, Artek, CRI and New World Records labels.

GERALD STANICK

Mr. Stanick has long been regarded a master of the viola and as a teacher of the violin, viola and chamber music. His many former students are to be found in orchestras, string quartets, music academies and universities around the world and include Neal Gripp, Douglas McNabney, Rennie Regehr and Daniel Scholz. In addition to serving as violist of the Fine Arts String Quartet, Mr. Stanick served as Principal Viola of the Winnipeg Symphony. Mr. Stanick is a Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia and now devotes his time to an old love, painting.

RENNIE REGEHR

​Rennie Regehr began his professional career with the Winnipeg Symphony and Manitoba Chamber Orchestras. A student of Gerald Stanick, his career has taken him throughout Canada and abroad as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. From 1992-2006 Mr. Regehr was the Dean of the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, where he developed an internationally renowned orchestral program that has trained many of Canada’s finest professional musicians and solo artists. In 2006 he joined the University of Ottawa music faculty as Viola Professor, Principal Guest Conductor of the University Orchestra and Director of the Chamber Music Program. In 2012 he received the Canadian Viola Society's Lifetime Achievement Award.

THOMAS WIEBE

Acclaimed cellist Thomas Wiebe has been heard by audiences and on radio broadcast throughout North America and Europe. He has recorded for the CBC, Centrediscs, Doremi and Bowl labels. Thomas Wiebe studied cello with Julie Banton in his native Winnipeg. He later studied at the Eastman School of Music with Robert Sylvester and Steven Doane, and at Yale University and the Juilliard School with the late 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 is also on the faculty of the Domaine Forget Summer Music Academy in Quebec.