Taras (Daniel) Gabora is a violinist and prominent violin teacher. He was born in
Yellow Creek, Saskatchewan
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, 23 Apr 1932.
Early life
He studied at the
University of Manitoba
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with Richard Seaborn, at the Paris Conservatory 1952–3 with René Benedetti, in
Vienna
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1953-7 with Ernst Morawec, and in
Amsterdam
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1957-8 with
Szymon Goldberg Szymon Goldberg (1 June 1909 – 19 July 1993) was a Polish-born Jewish classical violinist and conductor, latterly an American.
Born in Włocławek, Congress Poland, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw. His first teacher ...
. (He worked later – 1969 – with Yuri Jankelevich in
Salzburg
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.) In 1956, on graduating from the
Vienna Academy of Music
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, he received the Austrian Grand Prize.
Career
Gabora settled in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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in 1962. He founded the Gabora String Quartet (1964-8), the Groupe baroque de Montréal in 1968 with Gaston Germain, and Les Jeunes Solistes de Montréal in 1977, a group of 16.
Gabora taught at McGill University from 1962-4 and at the JMC Orford Art Centre from 1972-4. He also taught at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in the 70's.
Gabora performed on CBC radio and TV and in concerts in Canada, the USA, and Europe
In 1974 he made an LP with his wife, the soprano Gaelyne Gabora.
References
Canadian EncyclopediaFriends Along the Way: A Journey Through Jazz
- Gene Lees
The Strad: A Monthly Journal for Professionals and Amateurs of All Stringed Instruments Played with the Bow
Volume 103, Numbers 1221-1226
External links
Taras Gabora
at Discogs
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1932 births
Canadian classical violinists
Canadian male violinists and fiddlers
Living people
Academic staff of McGill University
Musicians from Montreal
Musicians from Saskatchewan
University of Manitoba alumni
21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers
21st-century Canadian male musicians