Eric Abramovitz was 7 years old when he first learned to play the clarinet. He hoped to study under Yehuda Gilad, an internationally renowned clarinet professor who accepts only two new students per year at Colburn. Abramovitz spent hours every night practicing, he said in an interview with The Washington Post. And after his live audition in Los Angeles in February 2014, he was confident that he would be accepted.

Weeks later, he opened an email signed by Gilad and letting him know he had not been selected for the program. He was crushed. Abramovitz ended up finishing his bachelor’s degree at McGill, delaying his professional musical career. «I just invested so much,» Abramovitz said.

«I gave it all I had». But two years later, Abramovitz would find out that he was, in fact, accepted to the program. Abramovitz suspects it was a scheme to ensure that he wouldn’t move away. On Wednesday, a judge in Ontario Superior Court awarded Abramovitz $350,000 in damages in Canadian dollars caused by his girlfriend’s «reprehensible betrayal of trust» and «despicable interference in Mr Abramovitz’s career,» the judge, D.L. Corbett, wrote.

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