Ezra Schabas
| Ezra Schabas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 24, 1924 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | musician, educator and author |
Ezra Schabas, CM OOnt (born April 24, 1924) is a Canadian musician, educator and author who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He has been active in Canada's musical life since 1952, when he emigrated from Cleveland with his wife Ann Schabas and two sons, William and Richard. During his time in Canada, he has been a leading musical educator, clarinetist, and administrator in Toronto's musical institutions. He has written several books on Canadian and American musical history, and he has been appointed to the Order of Ontario and made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Ezra Schabas was born in New York City on April 24, 1924, to Jewish parents. He attended the Juilliard School for clarinet, where he studied with clarinetist Arthur Christmann. The interruption of World War II led Schabas to leave Juilliard in 1943 with an Artist Diploma to serve with the US Army forces in France and Germany. While overseas, he attended the Nancy Conservatory before returning to New York City in 1946.
Upon his return, Schabas completed his Bachelor of Science at Juilliard in 1947, followed by a Master of Arts at Columbia University in 1948. For the next few years, he studied in a variety of places, including the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France, as well as clarinet in New York with David Weber and in Paris with Gaston Hamelin. Between 1948 and 1950, he taught at the University of Massachusetts and from 1950 to 1952 at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, before moving to Toronto to be a freelance clarinetist and concert manager at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He became a Canadian citizen in 1967.
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