Jack Groob

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Jacob "Jack" Groob (aka Jacob Grobdruk ; born January 21, 1920 in Ostropol , † March 25, 1984 in Toronto ) was a Ukrainian-Canadian violinist and conductor.

Groob came to Canada as a child. He studied from 1935 to 1938 at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Maurice Solway and then with Mischa Mischakoff in New York. After military service with the Army Show in Europe, he was a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , the CBC Symphony Orchestra and other radio orchestras until 1959 (with an interruption from 1949 to 1953) and (from 1947) second violinist in the Solway Quartet .

In the summer of 1956 he completed his violin training with Oscar Back , in the following years he attended conducting courses in Salzburg and at the Juilliard School with Jean Morel . In 1956 he founded the Jack Groob Trio (with Donald Whitton or George Horvath and Earle Moss ), in 1957 the Jack Groob String Quartet (with David Zafer , Walter Babiak or Ross Lechow and Donald Whitton).

In 1959 Groob went to Israel and became concertmaster of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra , and in the following year he founded the Jerusalem String Quartet . After returning to Canada, he founded the Toronto Chamber Orchestra in 1962 and was again a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1964 until he left in 1982 for health reasons.

From 1967 to 1972 Groob was the conductor of the Oshawa Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Youth Orchestra , which he founded and which won first prize at the 1969 International Symphony Festival in Sankt Moritz. As a violinist, Groob premiered Harry Somers ' Sonata No. 2 (1955) and Harry Freedman's Fantasia and Dance (1956).

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